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'''Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr.''', (1877-1963) was an African American inventor and businessman who is well-known for his protective breathing hoo ...o purchase a home and an automobile. He is reported to have been the first African American in the Cleveland area to own an [[automobile]].

...he early 1980s has caused the gap between the growth rates of European and African American college graduates to widen since the 1970s.<ref> Adams (2001)</ref>

* Walker, Juliet E. K. ''Encyclopedia of African American Business History'' Greenwood Press, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=

...lus 200 control group without syphilis) poor -- and mostly illiterate -- [[African American]] [[sharecroppers]] became part of a study on the treatment and normal prog Nurse [[Eunice Rivers]] was an [[African American]] [[nurse]] who trained at Tuskegee and was recruited from the [[John Andre

**1813 First [[Sunday school]] for [[African American]] peoples

...ars, even those who disagreed with his favorable treatment of the masters. African American historians expressed disappointment that his emphasis on the material well ...maintaining this domination--creating the system of racial segregation and African American disfranchisement known as Jim Crow--has remained a preoccupation of souther

....25% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.85% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.38% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 1.43% [[Asian (

...Under Brownlow's administration from 1865 to 1869, the legislature allowed African American men to vote, disenfranchised former Confederates, and took action against t ...and 1940, Tennessee had 251 [[lynching]]s, with 47 white victims, and 204 African American victims.<ref name=lynching /> There exists an online catalog<ref name=lync

...tion laws began collapsing further, in part because of the great number of African American soldiers that were transported during World War II. The trains were integr

...le that was a core component of the origins of [[rap and hip hop]] among [[African American]] and [[Puerto Rican]] youth in the [[Bronx]] borough of [[New York, New Yo

...many to teach newly freed [[African-American]] children<ref>''Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom'' - Williams, Heather Andrea, University o On November 6, 1875, [[Hiram Revels]], a Mississippi Republican and the first African American U.S. Senator, wrote a letter to President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] that was wid

[[Image:ColoredDrinking.jpg|thumb|250px|An [[African American]] drinks out of a segregated water cooler designated for "colored" patrons The Jim Crow laws were a major factor in [[Great Migration (African American)|the Great Migration]] during the early part of the 20th century, because o

* Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth. ''American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Cong

...rity is strongest among younger and better educated voters. He dominated [[African American]] support, which comprises about 20% of the Democratic primary vote nationw