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African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
According to Professors Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow: [11]. The Founding, Reconstruction (often called “the second founding”), and the New Deal are typically heralded as the most significant turning points in the country’s history, with many observers seeing each of these as political triumphs through which the United States has come to more closely realize its liberal ideals of ...
First African-American interracial romantic kiss in a mainstream comics magazine: "The Men Who Called Him Monster", by writer Don McGregor (See also: 1975) and artist Luis Garcia, in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #43 (Jan. 1972) (See also: 1975) [255]
As we observe this Black History Month, I also want to recognize Black pioneers not in history books – the parents, pastors, teachers and civic leaders.
Three African American women earn PhDs within nine days of each other: Georgiana R. Simpson, PhD in German Philology, University of Chicago, June 14, 1921; [19] Sadie Tanner Mossell, PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, June 15, 1921; [20] Eva B. Dykes, PhD in English Language, Radcliffe College, June 22, 1921. [21]
John Garrison, Charles Austin, Nathaniel Sargent and Jane Ruley made impacts on the community prior to 1900.
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. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
A quilt featuring Black pioneers of the past century from a county in western North Carolina is on display at The post Quilt tells the story of Black pioneers in western North Carolina appeared ...