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4 days ago · African American History: African American History: People Louis Gossett Jr. (1936-2024) Louis Cameron Gossett Jr., one of the most commanding American actors in television and film, as well as a producer, director, and social activist, was born on May 27, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, the only child to Louis Cameron Gossett Sr. and Hellen ...
5 days ago · Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.
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- Who was Rosa Parks?Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott...
- Why is Rosa Parks important?When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus for white passengers in 1955, she was arrested for violating the cit...
- Was Rosa Parks the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus?Rosa Parks was not the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus, though her story attracted the most attention nationwid...
- What did Rosa Parks write?In 1992 Rosa Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography written with Jim Haskins that described her role in the American civil rights m...
4 days ago · David Walker (born 1796/97?, Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.—died August 6, 1830, Boston, Massachusetts) was an African American abolitionist whose pamphlet Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World… (1829), urging enslaved people to fight for their freedom, was one of the most radical documents of the antislavery movement.
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3 days ago · Barack Obama—with his wife, Michelle—being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, January 20, 2009. Key events in the life of Barack Obama. Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office.
3 days ago · Muchakinock (founded circa 1877 in Mahaska County) and Buxton (founded in 1895 in Monroe County) were early coal mining communities in southeastern Iowa.Both towns were notable for being thriving communities that were racially integrated, tolerant, and free of racial violence, and both became cultured communities that attracted many Black professionals.
- Susan A. Vega García
- 2007
1 day ago · African-American cultural history African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. From the earliest days of American slavery in the 17th century, slave owners sought to exercise control over their slaves by attempting to strip them of their African culture.
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5 days ago · Interest in the African past corresponded with the rise of Pan-Africanism in African American politics, which was at the center of Marcus Garvey's ideology and also a concern of W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1920s. It also reflected the general fascination with ancient African history that followed the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922.
