Hiram Rhoades RevelsAmerican clergyman, educator, and politician Hiram Rhoades Revels. Revels became the first Black American to serve in the U.S. Senate. During Reconstruction, African Americans wielded political power in the South for the first time. Their leaders were largely clergymen, lawyers,...
A Timeline of African American Firsts In every field, from science to diplomacy to literature, African Americans have made their mark. Here is a sampling of some impressive African American achievements and firsts. African American Firsts: Politics and Government Nearly two hundred years of African...
African-American History Timeline Quiz/Printout Timeline Quiz Answers 1527-1539Estevanicoexplores the Southwestern US 1619The first African slaves are brought toVirginia 1808The US bans the import of slaves 1820Harriet Tubmanborn 1857Dred ScottSupreme Court decision - slaves do not have the right to ...
A timeline of African American history, told through quiltsVictoria StapleyBrown
His first significant play, Dutchman (1964; film 1967), which recounted an explosive confrontation on a train between a Black intellectual and a white woman who murders him, won the 1964 Obie Award for best Off-Broadway American play. Britannica Quiz Poetry: First Lines (Read W.E.B. Du ...
Discover the people and events that shaped African American history, from enslavement and activism to the Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights Movement.
Discover the people and events that shaped African American history, from enslavement and activism to the Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights Movement.
of nine African-American children enrolled at Central High School. In 1957 and 1960, Congress passed the first federal civil rights acts in nearly a century, rekindling a federal commitment to the African-American’s right to vote. A few years later, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the ...
The AmericanCivil Rights Movementbegan in the 1950s using nonviolence and passive resistance to change discriminatory laws and practices, primarily in the South. The movement awakened the country’s conscience to the plight of African Americans, who had long been denied first-class citizenship. As ...
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