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2. African-American history - Wikipedia

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   African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Formerly enslaved Spaniards who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [ 1 ]

3. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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   John Mercer Langston is one of the first African Americans elected to public office when elected as a town clerk in Ohio. 1856. May 21 – The Sacking of Lawrence in Bleeding Kansas. May 25 – John Brown, whom Abraham Lincoln called a "misguided fanatic", retaliates for Lawrence's sacking in the Pottawatomie massacre.

4. Carter G. Woodson - Wikipedia

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   Bessie Woodson Yancey (sister) Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) [1] was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American ...

5. National Museum of African American History and Culture

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   Museum Director Lonnie Bunch acknowledged scholars' worries that the items were controversial, but said the museum's mission is to tell stories through the African-American experience. The 20 ft (6.1 m) high guard tower will be part of an exhibit on segregation, while the 6 by 9 ft (1.8 by 2.7 m) prison cell will be in a separate exhibit on places.

6. Black History Month - Wikipedia

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   1997: African Americans and Civil Rights; a Reprisal; 1998: Black Business; 1999: Legacy of African American Leadership for the Present and the Future; 2000: Heritage and Horizons: The African American Legacy and the Challenges for the 21st Century; 2001: Creating and Defining the African American Community: Family, Church Politics and Culture

7. 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 ...

8. AP African American Studies - Wikipedia

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   AP African American Studies was the first ethnic studies course offered by College Board, and was the first pilot course since 1952. [6] Topics in the pilot course range from Queen Nzinga in northern Angola to the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Panthers. [7] Topics include lesser-known activists like Valerie Thomas, the African American ...

9. John Berry Meachum - Wikipedia

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   John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to teach people of color to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's ...