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2. 100 Greatest African Americans - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 978-1573929639. 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. First published in 1992, Salley's book is ...

3. 19 Black historical figures you probably didn't learn about ...

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   For many years, school curricula have limited their scope to the same Black figures throughout history. While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are ...

4. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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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]

6. Ruby Bridges - Wikipedia

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   Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites -only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. [1][2][3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All ...

7. Black History Month: 19 black athletes who made history - AOL

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   Black History Month: 19 black athletes who made history. AOL.com Editors. February 7, 2019 at 11:35 AM. American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of ...

8. Voices: It’s Black History Month – how many Black historical ...

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   COMMENT : The UK knows ‘shockingly little’ about Black British history. And more than half the population could not name any Black British historical figures at all. But hang on, asks Nadine ...

9. Unita Blackwell - Wikipedia

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   Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. [1] Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across ...