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...ty]] where he taught in both the department of Religion and the Center for African American Studies. As of 2020, Dr. West is on the faculty at [[Harvard]]; he has als

...ivitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999). Oxford University Press published an expanded five-volum ...ing on interviews he conducted for his multi-part PBS documentary series, “African American Lives.”

...stry.com/african_american_history/2353/Slave_finishes_White_House_Dome The African American Registry - Slave finishes White House Dome!]

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...in the country and made Abbott one of the first self-made millionaires of African American descent. ...ers, it was one of only two that was published on a daily basis out of 350 African American-owned newspapers in 1966.

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...e black (539 of a total of 581), reflecting the large population of former African American slaves living in the state and their difficulty in assimilating into societ

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...939 km²). The racial makeup of the county was 94.46% White, 1.29% Black or African American, and 4.96% of the population were Hispanic or Latino.

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...and coincided with the use of the word “soul” to describe other aspects of African American culture, such as music. Wordsmith Barry Popik says, “The term "soul food ...vereating and lack of exercise may actually have been the culprit, not the African American diet.

...521-45429-2|pages=286–}}</ref> Blues music has always been a hallmark of [[African American]] culture in the United States. It was influential in the [[United States C ...pirit of those in oppressed environments, would likely have resonated with African American slaves more than the formal European Classical style of music prevalent amo

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...assassinate King in 1958 (see [[Izola Curry]]), when he was stabbed by an African American woman during a book-signing in [[New York, New York]]. ...to give up his own dancing career and look for a way to “give back” to the African American community, a search that would lead to the founding of the [[Dance Theatre

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...ovel about a woman living in the South, ''Mules and Men'', a collection of African American folklore, and ''Dust Tracks on a Road'', her autobiography. Despite the suc

...rgia]], and that state's [[capital city|capital]]. With a predominately [[African American]], population of more than 6.1 million people in its metropolitan area, it

...In 1902, all of Abele’s efforts came to fruition and he became the first African American graduate of the architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania. Abele, as an African American, lived in the shadows as time and circumstance conspired to conceal his con

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...command of [[USS Rushmore (LSD-47)|''USS Rushmore'' (LSD-47)]], the first African American woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy. She commanded [[Amphibious Ready

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...chings between the years of 1882 and 1940, with 42 "white" victims and 539 African American victims. People of color in the U.S. South, and sometimes others who befri

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...edu/langston-hughes Langston Hughes] biography from the National Museum of African American History and Culture </ref>

...erhaps gave the idea of the back door a great presence in the psyches of [[African American]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Major |first=Clarence |title=Juba to Jive: A Dict

...ke Bay]]. In 2021, it had 576,498 people (well more than half of whom are African American), and the metropolitan area 2,333,000. The independent city is often refer

...as 44th [[President of the United States of America]] and was the first [[African American]] to hold the title. ..., 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

...ly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862-1869," ''The Journal of African American History'', 2002 pp 196-222 ...Freedpeople, Schooling, and Northern Teachers, 1861-1871" ''The Journal of African American History'' 2002. pp 372+.