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This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
A. List of African-American abolitionists; List of African-American activists; List of African-American actors; African Americans in foreign policy; African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866
First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [350] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 351 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
The first African-American woman to serve as a representative was Shirley Chisholm from New York's 12th congressional district in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement. Many African-American members of the House of Representatives serve majority-minority districts. [ 4 ]
Listed are those African-American candidates who achieved ballot access for a federal election. They made the primary ballot , and have votes in the election in order to qualify for this list. Not included are African-Americans potential candidates (suggested by media, objects of draft movements , etc.), potential candidates who did not file ...
This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [1] [2]