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* Williams, Heather Andrea. ''Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom'' U (2006) ...ly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862-1869," ''The Journal of African American History'', 2002 pp 196-222

see [[Great Migration (African American)]] The '''Great Migration''' was the movement of millions [[African American]]s out of the rural [[Southern United States]] from 1914 to 1960. Most move

...racial stereotypes that white southerners had long deployed as evidence of African American unfitness for politics--allegations of illiteracy, hyper-[[sex]]uality, and

...th the African American community, Obama managed to secure over 90% of the African American vote throughout the primaries.

...ts poet, journalist, and Liberty activist; Charles Henry Langston, an Ohio African American educator; [[Owen Lovejoy]], a congressman from Illinois, whose brother was

===African American: Double V campaign=== The African American community in the United States resolved on a "Double V" campaign: Victory o

Ten thousand seamen manned the ships. More than three thousand African American seamen shipped out on whaling boats from New Bedford between 1800 and 1860,

...tivity in [[Swahili language|Swahili]]) Festival commemorates the region's African American heritage and showcases visual arts, folk arts, dance, games, music, storyte

...ter G, Woodson in 1915 and has 2500 members and publishes the ''Journal of African American History;'' since 1926 it has sponsored Black History Month every February.<

=== Case studies in African American communities === ...mplexion for Protection: How the Government Response To Disaster Endangers African American Communities |date=2012 |publisher=NYU Press |location=New York |pages=100�

...ia: Temple University, 1986. Shows the emergence of ethnicities (including African American) as political voting blocs in the Jacksonian northeast. Fabi, M. Giulia. ''Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel''. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2001. Literary explanation of the

...s during 1937."<ref> Howard 287 </ref> Nationwide in late 1937, 15.2% were African American. The Urban League magazine ''Opportunity'' hailed the WPA: <ref>February,

...797/km² (2,063/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 78.86% White, 4.39% African American, 0.62% Native American, 0.65% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 9.51% from oth

...Adenorhinus|Adenorhinus]] - [[Special:Allpages/African American literature|African American literature]]

...rican]] <ref>Obama is of mixed parentage, but generally self-identifies as African American.</ref> to be elected to the presidency.<ref>In 1988 [[Jesse Jackson]] won 1 ..., an experience which made her more keenly aware of herself as an educated African American. Her 1985 senior thesis was on "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Com