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Apr 19, 2024 · As Black History Month encourages Americans to consider the accomplishments of prominent African-Americans and the contribution of black people to U.S. history, Oklahomans can look to the dozens ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. He became the first Black U.S. marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century.
Apr 20, 2024 · Black History Month, monthlong commemoration of African American history and achievement that takes place each February in the United States. It was begun in 1976. Carter G. Woodson. Carter G. Woodson, c. 1910s. In February 1926 Woodson launched what would become Black History Month so as to recognize the history and achievements of Black ...
5 days ago · The area was initially created as a segregated area for white people, yet by the 1940s, this policy was reversed and many African-American families began to move into the area. Addisleigh Park ...
6 days ago · Cato, an enslaved African-American man who served as an American Black Patriot spy and courier gathering intelligence with his owner, Hercules Mulligan. Cato (died 1803), an enslaved man in Charleston, New York, who murdered twelve-year-old Mary Akins after an attempted rape. His confession was published in the murder literature of the time.
Apr 20, 2024 · Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church . There are currently around three million Black Catholics in the United States, making up 6% of the total population of African Americans, who are mostly Protestant, and 4% of American Catholics.
Apr 5, 2024 · Marcus Garvey (born August 17, 1887, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica—died June 10, 1940, London, England) was a charismatic Black leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem. Largely self-taught, Garvey attended school in Jamaica until he was 14.
