African American (redirected fromAfrican-americans) Thesaurus Medical African American alsoAf·ri·can-A·mer·i·can(ăf′rĭ-kən-ə-mĕr′ĭ-kən) n. AblackAmericanofAfricanancestry. Af′ri·can-A·mer′i·canadj. AmericanHeritage®DictionaryoftheEnglishLanguage,FifthEdition.Copyri...
“black”) were offensive, so they chose theeuphemismcoloredwhen they were freed. Capitalized,Negrobecame acceptable during the migration to the North for factory jobs.Afro-Americanwas adopted bycivil rightsactivists to underline pride in their ancestral homeland, butBlack—the symbol of power and ...
Travel Guide for African Americans, Civil Rights Activists Pointed Way to 1963 March (Posted 2013-08-28 02:27:00) ; When Jim Crow Law Restricted Blacks from Traveling, a Harlem-Based Letter Carrier Wrote a Handy GuideTam, Ruth
How African-American gay activists in the rural south found community support Studies published in 1990 in the JofA by Bert Mitchell, the chairman and founder of Mitchell & Titus, LLP, the largest minority-controlled firm in the United States, identified only 150 African-Americans among 100,000...
During the celebration of Juneteenth in the African American Cultural Garden there was an historic unveiling and dedication of an Ohio Historical Marker along the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail. See photos and video of the dedication and unveiling ...
Anti-apartheid activists set out to discourage artist exchanges in the belief that they had no effect on apartheid, degraded the artist involved, and lent credibility to the South African regime. Through adverse publicity and boycott, many U.S. entertainers were pressured into avoiding South Africa...
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Anna Julia Cooper was an American educator and writer whose book A Voice From the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892) became a classic African American feminist text. Cooper was the daughter of a slave woman and her white slaveholder (or his broth
Although African-Americans lived as second-class citizens for most of American history, today they enjoy equal rights due to the efforts of black abolitionists and civil rights activists. African-Americans such as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Frances Harper and Harriet Tubman led thousands of...
In these ‘first-voice’ museums, curators and leaders are part of the community the museum interprets.