Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. ... 1950. June 5 – In McLaurin v.
First African-American delegate to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Edith S. Sampson (See also: 1950) First African American to go over Niagara Falls: Nathan Boya a.k.a. William FitzGerald; First African American to join the PGA Tour: Charlie Sifford [230]
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...
Incredible, influential pioneers in African American history. ... Also in 1950, Waters was the first Black actress to star in a television series, Beulah, which aired on ABC.
African-American history started with the forced transportation of Africans to North America in the 16th ... After the civil rights movement gains of the 1950s ...
The civil rights movement [b] was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans.
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
Many African Americans have become homeless in the city. African Americans make up 34% of Los Angeles's homeless, while only being 8% of the city's population in 2020. [10] Blacks in Los Angeles have a lower life expectancy and die younger than other racial groups in Los Angeles. [11] Los Angeles also has a sizable Black immigrant population.