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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]
Harriet Powers, (1837–1910), African American slave quilt artist; Robert Poydasheff, mayor of Columbus, Georgia; Alex Poythress (born 1993), American-Ivorian basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier Basketball League; Carrie Preston, actress; Kazimierz PuĊaski, nobleman; born in Poland; died in Savannah; Shannon Purser ...
Charles Drew's 1922 Dunbar High School yearbook entry. Drew was born in 1904 into an African-American middle-class family in Washington, D.C. [3] His father, Richard, was a carpet layer [4] and his mother, Nora Burrell, trained as a teacher. [5]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American inventors. ... Pages in category "African-American inventors" The following 100 pages are in this category ...
"a consistent posture toward raising the social, cultural and economic status of African Americans" "personal achievement that reveals the best qualities of the African American people" Reference and User Services Quarterly reviewed the list positively in 2003, while noting the subjectivity in judging greatness, particularly for contemporary ...
Rufus Stokes grew up in the rural American South and attended public school in Alabama until he was 18 years old. On November 5, 1940, just before receiving his high school diploma, Rufus Stokes enlisted in the US Army at Fort Benning, Georgia in the Quartermaster Corps.
Business Insider revealed the most famous athletes born in every state, with Georgia's being Jackie Robinson.. Robinson (1919-1972) was born in Cairo before he broke the color barrier in baseball ...
Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist.Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent hair-wave machine. [2]