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1 day ago · African Americans are largely the descendants of enslaved people who were brought from their African homelands by force to work in the New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States.
- Slavery in The United States
African Americans - Slavery, Resistance, Abolition: Black...
- Tuskegee Airmen
In January 1941 the War Department formed the all-black 99th...
- The Civil Rights Movement
African Americans - Civil Rights, Equality, Activism: At the...
- The Civil War Era
African Americans - Civil War, Slavery, Emancipation: The...
- The Age of Booker T. Washington
African Americans - Education, Upward Mobility, Leadership:...
- Great Depression, New Deal, Struggles
African Americans - Great Depression, New Deal, Struggles:...
- A New Direction
African Americans - Civil Rights, Education, Equality: The...
- Black Seminoles
The Black Seminoles were recognized for their aggressive...
- Garifuna
Other articles where Garifuna is discussed: Latin American...
- Bud Billiken Parade
Since the 1940s the Bud Billiken Parade has been run by...
- Slavery in The United States
1 day ago · African Americans are descended from various ethnic groups, mostly from ethnic groups that lived in West and Central Africa, including the Sahel. A smaller number of African Americans are descended from ethnic groups that lived in Eastern and Southeastern Africa.
May 24, 2024 · Great Migration, in U.S. history, the widespread migration of African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. It is estimated that from 1916 to 1970 some six million black Southerners relocated as part of the Great Migration.
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- The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban ar...
- Many African Americans in the South found themselves trapped in sharecropping jobs and other forms of debt peonage with no hope of improvement in t...
- The greater economic and educational opportunities led to an explosion of artistic expression in music and literature. Migrants and their children...
2 days ago · African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture. African-American culture has been influential on American and global worldwide culture as a whole.
May 23, 2024 · Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...
May 17, 2024 · 70 years after Brown v. Board, America is both more diverse — and more segregated. A hallway in Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/David Goldman) On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools. The message of Brown v.
May 16, 2024 · Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
