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This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
Acererak first appears in the original Tomb of Horrors adventure (1978) by Gary Gygax as the main adversary. [1] One of the areas in the Tomb is a "Chapel of Evil", described as "obviously some form of temple area - there are scenes of normal life painted on the walls, but the people have rotting flesh, skeletal hands, worms eating them, etc." [3]: 5 The adventure described him as "a human ...
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.
The 1619 Project is not “critical race theory.” Not only is it a reach to equate Nikole Hannah-Jones’ award-winning journalism The post Before 1619: The secret history of the first African ...
This category lists characters in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
In early 2019, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones made a simple pitch to her editors. The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of ...
First African-American consensus college All-American basketball player: Don Barksdale [176] First comic book produced entirely by African-Americans: All-Negro Comics [177] First African-American full-time faculty member at a predominantly white law school: William Robert Ming (University of Chicago Law School) [37]
First African-American man to receive an Oscar: James Baskett (Honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of "Uncle Remus" in Song of the South, 1946) [22] (See also: Sidney Poitier, 1964) First African-American composer to have an opera performed by a major U.S. company: William Grant Still (Troubled Island, New York City Opera) [23]