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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]
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 ...
African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [ 1] The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale ...
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 ...
The contributions of Black people to American society and the world should be celebrated every day of the year. But each February, Black History Month presents an unique opportunity to dedicate ...
The First African Baptist Church was the first African-American church west of the Mississippi River. [ 21] It had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [ 22] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827.
Negro History Week (1926) The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week". [ 10] This week was chosen because it coincided with the birthday of ...
Thyrsa Frazier Svager (1930–1999), degrees from Antioch College, Ohio State University (PhD). Argelia Velez-Rodriguez (b. 1936 in Cuba), degrees from Marianao Institute, University of Havana (PhD). Grace Alele Williams (1932–2022), degrees from University of Ibadan, University of Chicago (PhD, education).