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  2. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    More than two million African-American men rushed to register for the draft. By the time of the armistice with Germany in November 1918, over 350,000 African Americans had served with the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. [135] [136] [137] Most African American units were relegated to support roles and did not see combat.

  3. Timeline of African-American firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African American to play in a men's major golf championship: Lee Elder (The Masters) First African American to be named Super Bowl MVP in NFL: Franco Harris (Pittsburgh Steelers). Of mixed ancestry, Harris was also the first Italian-American to win the award.

  4. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    May 15 – Sigma Pi Phi, the first African-American Greek-letter organization, is founded by African-American men as a professional organization, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Orlando, Florida hires its first black postman. [citation needed] 1905. July 11 – First meeting of the Niagara Movement, an interracial group to work for civil rights ...

  5. Military history of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    The history of African Americans in the U.S. Civil War is marked by 186,097 (7,122 officers, 178,975 enlisted) [26] African-American men, comprising 163 units, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.

  6. African American founding fathers of the United States

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    The African American founding fathers of the United States are the African Americans who worked to include the equality of all races as a fundamental principle of the United States. Beginning in the abolition movement of the 19th century, they worked for the abolition of slavery, and also for the abolition of second class status for free blacks.

  7. 100 Greatest African Americans - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War

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    In September 1862, free African-American men were conscripted and impressed into forced labor for constructing defensive fortifications, by the police force of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio; however, they were soon released from their forced labor and a call for African-American volunteers was sent out.

  9. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    African American: Wickliffe: Ballard: Kentucky: September 11, 1911: Robbery and murder of an elderly black man: The three men were accused of the robbery and murder of Washington Thomas, an elderly black man. [314] Reed, Sam: Howard, Frank: 2 Unknown men: African American: Prior to December 1911

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