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  2. Black History Month - Wikipedia

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    Black History Month is an annually observed commemorative month originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. [4] It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora, initially lasting a week before becoming a month-long observation since 1970. [5]

  3. Religion of Black Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Music of Black Americans: A History (1997) Spencer, Jon Michael. Black hymnody: a hymnological history of the African-American church (1992) Wills, David W. and Richard Newman, eds. Black Apostles at Home and Abroad: Afro-Americans and the Christian Mission from the Revolution to Reconstruction (1982) Woodson, Carter G. (2009) [1928].

  4. 19 Black figures who changed history - AOL

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    Here’s a round-up of important Black historical figures you need to know about. Whether you’re wanting to brush up on your Black history or are a full-on history buff looking for your next ...

  5. African-American culture - Wikipedia

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    African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.

  6. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    The draft starkly exposed the poor living conditions of most African-Americans with the Selective Service Boards turning down 46% of the Black men called up on health grounds as compared to 30% of the white men called up. [185] At least a third of the black men in the South called up by the draft boards turned out to be illiterate. [185]

  7. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    February – Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. The novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is published. 1977. Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist group, publishes the Combahee River Collective Statement.

  8. Lift Every Voice and Sing - Wikipedia

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    "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...

  9. Black Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    In 1990, Benedictine Fr Cyprian Davis published "History of Black Catholics in the United States", a book that covered the history of Black Catholics from Esteban's expedition in the 16th century all the way to the period of the late 80s. [clarification needed] It remains the primary text for the general history of Black Catholics. [103]