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Madam C. J. Walker (4,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist

AfroCrowd (996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Diana; Edmunson-Morton, Tiah K. (October 28, 2019). "Writing African American History Into Wikipedia". OLA Quarterly. 25 (2): 16–21. doi:10.7710/1093-7374

Black Guerrilla Family (1,130 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, the Black Family, the Black Vanguard, and Jamaa) is an African American black

Tent City (Tennessee) (537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tent City, also called Freedom Village, was an encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, Tennessee for African Americans who were evicted from their

The Children (book) (227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Children is a 1998 book by David Halberstam which chronicles the 1959–1962 Nashville Student Movement. Among the topics covered are the Nashville sit-ins

Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. (1,222 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The first memorial service following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, took place the following day at the R.S. Lewis Funeral

Bloods (2,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Bloods are a primarily African American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California. The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the

WQBT (302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

WQBT (94.1 FM, "94.1 The Beat") is a mainstream urban radio station licensed to Savannah, Georgia. It is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios are located

Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (3,714 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) inundated

Bloody Monday (Danville) (473 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

36°35′12″N 79°23′32″W / 36.58659430°N 79.39215750°W / 36.58659430; -79.39215750 Bloody Monday is a name used to describe a series of arrests and attacks

Black Disciples (511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black Disciples (often abbreviated as the BD's) is an African-American street gang that originated in Chicago, Illinois. In 1958, a group of young

The Skanner (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Skanner or The Skanner News is an African-American newspaper covering the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Its head office is in Portland, Oregon

Black suffrage in the United States (1,908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Banner with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs' motto. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Gangster Disciples (2,101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Gangster Disciple Nation (often abbreviated as the GD's; formally, GDN or simply Gangster Disciples), also known as Growth & Development, is an African

Newark Eagles (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. They were owned by Abe and

Killing of Carlos Carson (540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On June 6, 2020, Carlos Carson, an unarmed African American man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was assaulted and killed by a private security guard with an extensive

Williams v. Mississippi (1,066 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution and its

WEAS-FM (387 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

WEAS-FM (93.1 MHz, "E93") is a commercial radio station licensed to Springfield, Georgia, and serving the Savannah metropolitan area. It airs an urban

Pirus (802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pirus (/ˈpaɪruː/ ) are a subset of the larger Bloods gang alliance, an organized crime group in the United States. The name "Piru" is derived from

Peoples Temple (9,213 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture (630 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is a resource for information about the lives and history of African American

Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (1,523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

There in 1988 he founded America's Black Holocaust Museum, for African-American history and documentation of lynchings of African Americans. In 1937 Abel

Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education (653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899), ("Richmond") was a class action suit decided by the Supreme Court of the United States

Watts riots (5,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press, 2007. Walker, Yvette (2008). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first

Savannah Tribune (303 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Savannah Tribune is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Savannah, Georgia. The Savannah Tribune was founded in 1875 and went through two

Stand in the Schoolhouse Door (2,347 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. In a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural

12th Academy Awards (1,516 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939

Lynching of Tom Payne (75 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Museum National Memorial for Peace and Justice National Museum of African American History and Culture Southern Poverty Law Center Related articles James

Shelley v. Kraemer (2,212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case that held that racially restrictive housing covenants (deed restrictions)

Hair Like Mine (965 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hair Like Mine is a 2009 photograph by Pete Souza of a five-year-old child, Jacob Philadelphia, touching the head of Barack Obama, then president of the

Ax Handle Saturday (988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park)

WKKV-FM (1,000 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

WKKV-FM (100.7 MHz), also known as V-100.7, is an urban contemporary radio station owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. serving the Milwaukee area. The station broadcasts

Ellenton massacre (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Museum National Memorial for Peace and Justice National Museum of African American History and Culture Southern Poverty Law Center Related articles James

Lynching of John Hartfield (578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Museum National Memorial for Peace and Justice National Museum of African American History and Culture Southern Poverty Law Center Related articles James

The Washington Informer (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Washington Informer is a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The Informer is female-owned and is targeted at the African-American population

Race and Reunion (447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory is a 2001 book by the American historian David W. Blight. The book was awarded the Frederick Douglass

The Charlotte Post (461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Charlotte Post, founded in 1878, is an African American, English language, community-based weekly newspaper in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte

Brooklyn Royal Giants (484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 1905 by John Wilson Connor (1875–1926)

The Washington Informer (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Washington Informer is a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The Informer is female-owned and is targeted at the African-American population

Baltimore Black Sox (524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Baltimore Black Sox were a professional Negro league baseball team active between 1913 and 1936, based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Black Sox started

Breedlove v. Suttles (758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Breedlove v. Suttles, 302 U.S. 277 (1937), is an overturned United States Supreme Court decision which upheld the constitutionality of requiring the payment

West Coast Negro Baseball Association (439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) was one of the several Negro baseball leagues created during the time organized baseball was segregated

Columbus Blue Birds (364 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Columbus Blue Birds were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Columbus, Ohio in 1931 and 1933. Their name appears to have been derived

Freeman Field mutiny (2,656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Freeman Field mutiny was a series of incidents at Freeman Army Airfield, a United States Army Air Forces base near Seymour, Indiana, in 1945 in which

Great Dismal Swamp maroons (3,363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement

Mack Robinson (athlete) (733 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Matthew MacKenzie Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was an American track and field athlete. He is best known for winning a silver medal in the

Robert Cray (1,133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert William Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He has led his own band and won five Grammy Awards. Robert Cray was

Briggs v. Elliott (2,588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Briggs v. Elliott, 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, challenged school segregation

Baltimore Elite Giants (1,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Baltimore Elite Giants were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1950. The team was established by Thomas T.

Los Angeles Sentinel (465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Los Angeles Sentinel is a weekly African-American owned newspaper published in Los Angeles, California. The paper boasted of reaching 125,000 readers

Sex Money Murder (735 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sex, Money, Murder (also known as Sex Money Murda, S.M.M., or $.M.M.) is a "set" of the Bloods street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States

J. P. Small Memorial Stadium (1,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

J. P. Small Memorial Stadium is a baseball park in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located in the Durkeeville community in northwest Jacksonville. Constructed

Cleveland Buckeyes (553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cleveland Buckeyes were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1942 to 1950 in the Negro American League. The Buckeyes played in two Negro World

Bloody Tuesday (1964) (2,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Bloody Tuesday was a march that occurred on June 9, 1964, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement. The march was both organized and led

Texas Colored League (266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Texas Colored League was a minor league Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926. The league did not play a schedule in 1922.

Tennessee Tribune (153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Tennessee Tribune is an African-American newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. Its circulation is statewide - Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Memphis

Desegregation in the United States (2,589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Years of Educational Change in the United States". The Journal of African American History. 90 (1/2): 1–8. doi:10.1086/JAAHv90n1-2p1. ISSN 1548-1867. JSTOR 20063972

African-American News and Issues (154 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American News and Issues (AANI) is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Houston, Texas. The newspaper is distributed to zip codes that

Atlanta Independent (177 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

". In Finkelman, Paul; Wintz, Cary D. (eds.). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first

St. Louis Sentinel (80 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The St. Louis Sentinel is an African-American-oriented weekly newspaper, founded in 1968 by Howard B. Woods in St. Louis, Missouri. After Woods's death

National Newspaper Publishers Association (447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), formerly the National Negro Publishers Association, is an association of African American newspaper

Lucy v. Adams (156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lucy v. Adams, 350 U.S. 1 (1955), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully established the right of all citizens to be accepted as students at the

New Pittsburgh Courier (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The New Pittsburgh Courier is a weekly African-American newspaper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned by Real Times. The newspaper

The Triangle Tribune (69 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Triangle Tribune is an American, English language weekly newspaper headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1998 and targets the

Utoy Cemetery (123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Utoy Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries within the current city limits of Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia and is listed on the National Register

Coon Chicken Inn (453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants that was founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the

Virginia Union University (1,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1865– )". Online Encyclopedia of Significant People and Places in African American History. Blackpast.org. January 10, 2010. Archived from the original on

United States v. Reese (326 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. 214 (1876), was a voting rights case in which the United States Supreme Court narrowly construed the Fifteenth Amendment

Baltimore Times (725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Baltimore Times is a free weekly newspaper founded in 1986 that covers the African-American community in Baltimore County, Maryland. The newspaper

Powell v. Alabama (1,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court reversed the convictions of nine young black

California African American Museum (936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

become the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The current CAAM facility was built with state and

Ebenezer Baptist Church (989 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

center Finkelman, Paul; Wintz, Cary D. (2009). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first

Call and Post (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Call and Post (or Call & Post) is an African-American weekly newspaper, based in Cleveland, Ohio and is owned by boxing promoter Don King. The Call

List of African-American historic places in Omaha, Nebraska (278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This list of African American historic places in Omaha, Nebraska features some sites on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as independent

U Street (Washington, D.C.) (2,495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The U Street Corridor or Greater U Street, sometimes known as Cardozo/Shaw, is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. Centered along

Nine Trey Gangsters (1,565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Nine Trey Gangster Bloods or Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (NTG) (also referred to as Bentley's or Billionaires) are a "set" of the United Blood Nation

Rape during the liberation of France (1,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

U.S. soldiers committed acts of rape against French women during and after the liberation of France in the later stages of World War II. The sociologist

The Alaska Spotlight (156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Alaska Spotlight was the first African American newspaper in the Territory of Alaska. Publication began in 1952, when Alaska was not yet a state. It

Milliken v. Bradley (1,420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974), was a significant United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school

Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site (837 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site is a church and National Historic Site in Mount Vernon, New York, just north of the New York City borough of

Indianapolis ABCs (899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League

Lucy v. Adams (156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lucy v. Adams, 350 U.S. 1 (1955), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully established the right of all citizens to be accepted as students at the

Vanport, Oregon (2,421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

OCLC 16732141. Pearson, Rudy (January 22, 2007). "Vanport (1942–1948)". African American History in the American West: Online Encyclopedia of Significant People

Philadelphia Tigers (232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Philadelphia Tigers were a Negro league baseball team that played briefly in the 1928 Eastern Colored League (ECL) before the circuit disbanded in

Buffalo Soldier (8,337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Buffalo Soldiers were United States Army regiments composed exclusively of African American soldiers, formed during the 19th century to serve on the American

Michigan Chronicle (807 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Michigan Chronicle is a weekly African-American newspaper based in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in 1936 by John H. Sengstacke, editor of the Chicago

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park (220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is a Maryland state park dedicated to the life and work of abolitionist and Underground Railroad activist

Crips (3,363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California. Founded in Los Angeles

Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site (837 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site is a church and National Historic Site in Mount Vernon, New York, just north of the New York City borough of

Buffalo police shoving incident (3,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On June 4, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests in New York state, police officers from the Buffalo Police Department pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino

Powell v. Alabama (1,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court reversed the convictions of nine young black

Negro World (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2009). "Negro World". Encyclopedia of African American History. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-516779-5. Wintz, Cary

Indianapolis Freeman (582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indianapolis Freeman (1884–1926) was the first illustrated black newspaper in the United States. Founder and owner Louis Howland, who was soon replaced

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1,269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.C.) is a Methodist denomination that is based in the United States. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology

Miles College (1,240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sr". Alabama African American History. January 29, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2023 – via Bicentennial Alabama African American History Book. Steward

Portland New Age (426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The New Age, later known as the Portland New Age, was the first African American newspaper published in Oregon. Adolphus D. Griffin, or A.D. Griffin, launched

Executive Order 9981 (1,474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color

Johnny Bright incident (1,757 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Johnny Bright incident was a violent on-field assault against African-American player Johnny Bright by Wilbanks Smith, a white opposing player during

Langston University (1,196 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Langston University (LU) is a public land-grant historically black university in Langston, Oklahoma. It is the only historically black college in the state

Baltimore club (1,235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baltimore club, also called B'more club, B'more house or simply B'more, is a music genre that fuses breakbeat and house. It was created in Baltimore in

Call and Post (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Call and Post (or Call & Post) is an African-American weekly newspaper, based in Cleveland, Ohio and is owned by boxing promoter Don King. The Call

The Washington Afro-American (278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

38°54′42″N 77°01′56″W / 38.911631°N 77.032166°W / 38.911631; -77.032166 The Washington Afro-American newspaper is the Washington, D.C., edition of The

Detroit Wolves (227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Detroit Wolves were a Negro league baseball club that played for the 1932 season only. In 1931 the Negro National League collapsed. It reformed in

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park (580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is a 480-acre (190 ha) National Park Service unit in the U.S. state of Maryland. It commemorates

Death of Michael Jackson (11,655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On June 25, 2009, the American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50. His personal physician

Wednesdays in Mississippi (608 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wednesdays in Mississippi was an activist group during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s. Northern women of different races

Baltimore Afro-American (1,568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro or Afro News, is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the

Second line (parades) (1,667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The second line is a tradition in parades organized by Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs (SAPCs) with brass band parades in New Orleans, Louisiana, United

Indianapolis Clowns (916 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indianapolis Clowns were a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. Tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the Clowns were the last

Second inauguration of Harry S. Truman (1,158 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The second inauguration of Harry S. Truman as president of the United States was held on Thursday, January 20, 1949, at the East Portico of the United

Slave Songs of the United States (698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential

Cornerstone Speech (3,023 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration given by Alexander H. Stephens, acting Vice President of the Confederate

The St. Louis American (525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The St. Louis American is a weekly newspaper serving the African-American community of St. Louis, Missouri. The first issue appeared in March 1928. In

Been in the Storm So Long (76 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery is a 1979 book by American historian Leon Litwack, published by Knopf. The book chronicles the African-American

Athens Voice (newspaper) (182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Athens Voice was an African American newspaper in Athens, Georgia. The newspaper was founded by students Fred O. Smith and Mike Thurmond. The first issue

Medgar Evers (4,967 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

M. (2008). The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones in African American History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 277–78

American Negro Exposition (1,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Illinois Writers' Project, produced a commemorative 96-page African-American history book called Cavalcade of the American Negro. Other musical segments

A.G. Gaston Motel (393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The A.G. Gaston Motel is a historic building and former motel in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1963 during the Civil Rights movement, the Southern Christian

Albina, Oregon (325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albina is a historical American city that was consolidated into Portland, Oregon in 1891. The land the City of Albina would later be built on was claimed

Tricia Rose (537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tricia Rose (born October 18, 1962) is an American sociologist and author who pioneered scholarship on hip hop. Her studies mainly probe the intersectionality

Pittsburgh Crawfords (1,383 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team, previously

Baton Rouge bus boycott (2,573 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

M. (eds.). The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones in African American History [2 volumes]. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 66–67

Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Denver) (101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. by Ed Dwight is installed in Denver's City Park, in the U.S. state of New York. The memorial was installed in 2002,

Seattle Medium (209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Seattle Medium is an African-American newspaper that serves Seattle, Washington. It was founded in January 1970, and bore the name The Medium from

James DePreist (1,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Anderson DePreist (November 21, 1936 – February 8, 2013) was an American conductor. DePreist was one of the first African-American conductors on

Detroit Wolves (227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Detroit Wolves were a Negro league baseball club that played for the 1932 season only. In 1931 the Negro National League collapsed. It reformed in

Seattle Medium (209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Seattle Medium is an African-American newspaper that serves Seattle, Washington. It was founded in January 1970, and bore the name The Medium from

Oakland Post (California) (423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Oakland Post is the largest African-American weekly newspaper in Northern California, headquartered in Downtown Oakland. It is one of five local newspapers

Artie Wilson (924 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Lee Wilson (October 28, 1920 – October 31, 2010) was an American professional baseball player. He was an all-star for the Birmingham Black Barons

James DePreist (1,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Anderson DePreist (November 21, 1936 – February 8, 2013) was an American conductor. DePreist was one of the first African-American conductors on

The Seattle Republican (181 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Seattle Republican was a weekly newspaper in Seattle from 1894 to 1913, and is considered Seattle's first successful African American newspaper. Its

Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Omaha, Nebraska) (332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sacred Heart Catholic Church is a historic Catholic parish church located at 2206 Binney Street in the Kountze Place neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska

Cincinnati Tigers (374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Freaknik (/ˈfriːknɪk/; originally Freaknic) was an annual spring break festival in Atlanta, Georgia. It was initially attended by students enrolled at

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American Negro Exposition (1,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Illinois Writers' Project, produced a commemorative 96-page African-American history book called Cavalcade of the American Negro. Other musical segments

Athens Blade (161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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The Jacksonville Advocate was a weekly newspaper for African Americans in Jacksonville, Florida established in 1891. It was succeeded by The Jacksonville

Cleveland Red Sox (63 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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The Philadelphia Independent (1931–1971) (291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

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Mississippi Cold Case (2,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of

Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Milwaukee) (166 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a 1998 public art work designed by American artist Erik Blome, located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bronze sculpture

Indianapolis Recorder (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indianapolis Recorder is an American weekly newspaper based in Indianapolis, Indiana. First published in 1895, the Recorder is the longest-running

Four Corner Hustlers (143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Four Corner Hustlers (4CH) is an African American street gang founded in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago in the 1960s

The Florida Star (624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Florida Star is a weekly newspaper in Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 1951 to cater to Jacksonville's African American community, it is the oldest

Omaha Star (751 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Omaha Star is a newspaper founded in 1938 in North Omaha, Nebraska, by Mildred Brown and her husband S. Edward Gilbert. Housed in the historic Omaha

Chambers Brothers (gang) (782 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Chambers Brothers were a criminal organization heavily involved in the distribution of crack cocaine in the city of Detroit, Michigan, during the mid-1980s

North Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee (365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

North Memphis is one of the five defined districts of Memphis, Tennessee. It includes smaller neighborhoods such as Klondike, New Chicago, Douglass, Hyde

Athens Republique (270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Athens Republique was an African American newspaper in Athens, Georgia. It was published from 1919 to 1927. The paper's editor, Julian Lucasse Brown

Dallas Black Pride (240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dallas Black Pride (also known as Dallas Southern Pride) is an annual five-day event to celebrate the emerging black LGBT community in the Dallas–Fort

Cambridge movement (civil rights) (3,106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Cambridge movement was an American social movement in Dorchester County, Maryland, led by Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee

United Blood Nation (1,991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The United Blood Nation, also known as the East Coast Bloods, is a street and prison gang active primarily in the New York metropolitan area. It is the

Cleveland Tigers (baseball) (85 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Cleveland Tigers were a Negro league baseball team in the Negro National League, based in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1928. In their only season, they finished

Portland Observer (593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Portland Observer is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in Oregon. Established in 1970, it is published weekly (on Wednesdays), in Portland

Perry Publishing and Broadcasting (570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Perry Publishing and Broadcasting is an American print media and radio broadcasting company based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, targeting the local African

Katzenbach v. McClung (717 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Pittsburgh Keystones (baseball) (444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

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Indianapolis Leader (577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indianapolis Leader began in August 1879 as Indianapolis' first black newspaper. Before the Civil War, no African American newspaper existed in Indiana

Russell, Louisville (356 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Russell is a neighborhood immediately west of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.. It is nicknamed "Louisville's Harlem". It was named for renowned African

Armour G. McDaniel (988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Armour G. McDaniel, Sr. (July 7, 1916 – November 12, 1989) was an American military officer who served as a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and commanded

Blackland, Austin, Texas (695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Blackland is a historically black neighborhood on the east side of Austin, Texas, located north of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, south of Manor Road, east

New Afrikan Black Panther Party (659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Formations and the Black Power Resurgence of the 1990s". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 619–656. doi:10.1086/705022. ISSN 1548-1867. S2CID 210503508

D.C. Blacks (618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The D.C. Blacks is an African-American prison gang in the United States whose members are from Washington D.C. They are allied with the Black Guerrilla

Black Liberators (594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black Liberators was a militant civil-rights organization formed in St. Louis, Missouri, in the spring of 1968. The Liberators were led through most

Proctor-Hopson Circle (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame (928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame, or the OBMHoF, is a nonprofit organization founded in 2005 to celebrate, document and honour the legacy of the many

1993 St. Louis mayoral election (69 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1993 St. Louis mayoral election was held on April 6, 1993 to elect the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri. It saw the election of Freeman Bosley Jr., the

The Woman's Era (913 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Woman's Era was the first national newspaper published by and for black women in the United States. Originally established as a monthly Boston newspaper

Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church (233 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church, located at 3105 North 24th Street, was formed in 1954 as an integrated congregation in North Omaha, Nebraska. Originally

Slave breeding in the United States (1,930 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth

Algona Brownies (257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Algona Brownies were an independent interracial baseball team that played in the 1902 and 1903 seasons. They were based in Algona, Iowa, and was primarily

Warren M. Washington (1,180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Warren Morton Washington (August 28, 1936 – October 18, 2024) was an American atmospheric scientist, a chair of the National Science Board, and a Distinguished

New Afrikan Black Panther Party (659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Formations and the Black Power Resurgence of the 1990s". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 619–656. doi:10.1086/705022. ISSN 1548-1867. S2CID 210503508

Clive Charles (1,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clive Michael Charles (3 October 1951 – 26 August 2003) was an English football player, coach and television announcer. He was one of five National Collegiate

The Chicago Crusader (611 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Chicago Crusader, known from 1940 to the 1950s as The Crusader and from the 1950s to 1981 as The New Crusader, is a weekly African-American newspaper

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (6,472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, traced 500 years of African-American history to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. Gates wrote

Cleveland Browns (baseball) (90 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Cleveland Browns were a baseball team in the Negro National League, based in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924. In their only season, they finished with a 17–34

Portland Observer (593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Portland Observer is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in Oregon. Established in 1970, it is published weekly (on Wednesdays), in Portland

Miami Boys (269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Miami Boys was a drug organization composed of a loose-knit group of African-American drug suppliers and dealers from south Florida (particularly Miami)

The Facts (Seattle) (905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Facts, also known as Seattle Facts, is an African-American weekly newspaper that serves Seattle, Washington. Headquartered in the Central District

The Aliened American (236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Aliened American was a newspaper in Cleveland. It was the city's first black newspaper and is believed to have been the third newspaper for African

Cleveland Tigers (baseball) (85 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Cleveland Tigers were a Negro league baseball team in the Negro National League, based in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1928. In their only season, they finished

Anacostia Community Museum (2,391 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Center for African American History and Culture. Its intent was to serve as the location for the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Armour G. McDaniel (988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Armour G. McDaniel, Sr. (July 7, 1916 – November 12, 1989) was an American military officer who served as a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and commanded

D.C. Blacks (618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Dunbar Hospital (698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Dunbar Hospital was the first hospital for the black community in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is located at 580 Frederick Street, and is currently

Indianapolis Athletics (93 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indianapolis Athletics were a Negro league baseball team in the Negro American League, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1937. Ted Strong was their

Joseph Ellwanger (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Kansas City Monarchs (2,683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by

100 Greatest African Americans (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are

Newark Browns (344 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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The Michigan FrontPage (333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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List of African-American historic places in Texas (357 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Cleveland Hornets (73 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cleveland Hornets were a baseball team in the Negro National League, based in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1927. The Hornets played their home games at Hooper

Rosemont, Baltimore (106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rosemont is a neighborhood in the western part of Baltimore, Maryland. Located below North Avenue, above Franklintown Road, East of Hilton Parkway, and

Pittsburgh Courier (2,657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pittsburgh Courier was an African American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh from 1907 until October 22, 1966. By the 1930s, the Courier was

At the Beach LA (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

At The Beach, Los Angeles (ATBLA) is the organization that promotes and administers the Los Angeles Black gay pride event that occurs every summer. At

Negro Mountain (2,087 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Black Cabinet (1,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

WPA Slave Narratives Google Books Invisible Politics (page 263) "African American History" Archived March 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (1,681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1837 as the Institute

Killing of Aiyana Jones (3,257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones (July 20, 2002 – May 16, 2010) was a seven-year-old African American girl from Detroit's East Side who was shot in the neck

San Antonio Black Bronchos (51 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The San Antonio Black Bronchos were a Negro league baseball team, based in San Antonio, Texas, that played from 1907 to 1909. Smokey Joe Williams played

Cafe Campagne (214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cafe Campagne is a Black-owned French restaurant on Post Alley in Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington. Daisley Gordon is the owner

Claflin University (986 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Claflin University is a private historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1869 after the American Civil War

Birmingham Giants (61 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Ron Funches (1,777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronald Kyle Funches (born March 12, 1983) is an American comedian and actor. Born in California, Funches spent his early life in Chicago before relocating

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Denzel Washington (7,231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, Washington

KUMI 415 (355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kumi African Nation Organization, generally referred to as 415 or Kumi 415 is a predominantly African-American prison gang that was originally formed in

Ritz Theatre (Jacksonville) (269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Ritz Theatre is an African-American oriented theatre in the LaVilla neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. The theater, which seats 426, is used for

James Clark (lynching victim) (191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

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Kenosha unrest (5,540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the aftermath of the August 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake, protests, riots, and civil unrest occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and around the United

Houston Defender (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Houston Defender (Network) is a Black digital information source that originated from the African American newspaper of the same name based in Houston

Belair-Edison, Baltimore (165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Belair-Edison is a neighborhood in the Northeastern part of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is located along Harford and Bel Air Roads, above Sinclair

Black Lives Matter street mural (Capitol Hill, Seattle) (787 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

A "Black Lives Matter" street mural was painted in Capitol Hill, Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington in June 2020. Maintained by the Seattle Department

Columbus Buckeyes (Negro National League) (252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Columbus Buckeyes were a Negro league baseball team that played for a single season, 1921, in the Negro National League. Following the 1920 season

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American Historic Places. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471143451. NCPEDIA. "Exploring North Carolina: African American History". Retrieved October 22, 2019.

Cafe Campagne (214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cafe Campagne is a Black-owned French restaurant on Post Alley in Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington. Daisley Gordon is the owner

Black Cabinet (1,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

WPA Slave Narratives Google Books Invisible Politics (page 263) "African American History" Archived March 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia

My Bondage and My Freedom (343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Fly (play) (1,491 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Fly is a 2009 play written by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first black fliers in the U.S. military during World War II. Khan

Birmingham Giants (61 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Birmingham Giants were a Negro league baseball team, based in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1904 through 1909. They were the first black professional baseball

The Appeal (newspaper) (955 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Appeal (originally the Western Appeal) was a weekly newspaper published from 1885 to 1923. It was one of the most successful African American newspapers

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (1,129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in

2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election (600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A special election filled the remainder of the term in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district in the 116th

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Biloxi wade-ins (1,752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Biloxi wade-ins were three protests that were conducted by local African Americans on the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi between 1959 and 1963, during

Battle of Fort Tularosa (585 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Battle of Fort Tularosa occurred in May 1880 near the present-day town of Aragon in Catron County, New Mexico. In an ongoing campaign to keep from

Parkway Village, Memphis (191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Parkway Village is a predominantly African-American community in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Parkway Village is bounded by Getwell Road

1973 Los Angeles mayoral election (585 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1973 Los Angeles mayoral election took place on April 3, 1973, with a run-off election on May 29, 1973. Incumbent Sam Yorty was defeated by councilman

Akan Drum (891 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Akan Drum is a drum that was made in West Africa and was later found in the Colony of Virginia in North America. It is now one of the oldest African-American

Barr v. City of Columbia (818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Phylicia Rashad (3,693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Detroit Tribune (549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Detroit Tribune was a newspaper in Detroit. It started as the Daily Tribune in 1849 and used the name until 1862, the same year the Tribune joined

Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston, Baltimore (118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston is a small community just west of Hillen Road and Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The community

At the Beach LA (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

At The Beach, Los Angeles (ATBLA) is the organization that promotes and administers the Los Angeles Black gay pride event that occurs every summer. At

MacFarlane Homestead Historic District (193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The MacFarlane Homestead Historic District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on May 26, 1994) located in Coral Gables, Florida. The district

Audra McDonald (6,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an American singer and actress. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards

President's Committee on Civil Rights (872 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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General Order No. 143 (116 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

General Order No. 143 was an 1863 military directive of the United States War Department which authorized the establishment of a bureau regulating the

Tallahassee bus boycott (1,971 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Tallahassee bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Tallahassee

Washington Bee (1,191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Washington Bee was a Washington, D.C.–based American weekly newspaper founded in 1882 and primarily read by African Americans. Throughout almost all

History of slavery in Colorado (2,294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The history of slavery in Colorado began centuries before Colorado achieved statehood when Spanish colonists of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (1598–1848) enslaved

Houston Forward Times (485 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Houston Forward Times (FT) is a weekly newspaper headquartered in Houston, Texas. It is one of the largest black-owned newspapers in the city. It is

Sweatt v. Painter (661 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation

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George Floyd protests in Hawaii (788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of George Floyd protests in Hawaii. Following the murder of George Floyd, protests spread from Minneapolis to other parts of the United

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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America's Black Holocaust Museum (1,113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

amassed a large collection of materials and artifacts related to African-American history. After retirement, Cameron and his wife visited Yad Vashem, the

Twin Lakes State Park (Virginia) (615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Twin Lakes State Park (formerly known as Goodwin Lake Park and Prince Edward State Park for Negroes), is a state park in Virginia, United States. It is

Lynching of David Jones (581 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Middle Passage (3,726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

African Diaspora in Low Country Georgia, 1750–1800". Journal of African American History. 95 (2): 157–182 [p. 158]. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.2.0157

Cleveland Tate Stars (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cleveland Tate Stars were a Negro league baseball team from 1919 through 1923. They played as an independent (non-affiliated) team from 1919 through

Segregation academy (9,936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their

Deacons for Defense and Justice (3,650 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2004, p. 24. Encyclopedia of African American History. ABC-CLIO. 2010. pp. 732–733. Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to the Present: from

Lynching of Stephen Williams (190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Lynching of Michael Green (146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Huey P. Newton Gun Club (710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Huey P. Newton Gun Club is a group named after Black Panther Party co-founder and Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton. The group teaches self-defense

The Call (Kansas City) (1,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kansas City The Call, or The Call is an African-American weekly newspaper founded in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri, by Chester A. Franklin. It continues

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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America's Black Holocaust Museum (1,113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

amassed a large collection of materials and artifacts related to African-American history. After retirement, Cameron and his wife visited Yad Vashem, the

Washington Bee (1,191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Washington Bee was a Washington, D.C.–based American weekly newspaper founded in 1882 and primarily read by African Americans. Throughout almost all

Debbie Allen (2,614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deborah Kaye Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, director, producer, and a former member of the President's

T. O. Fuller State Park (469 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

T.O. Fuller State Park is a state park in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It consists of 1,138 acres (461 ha) of mostly forest located in South Memphis

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (548 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The

Cleveland Tate Stars (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cleveland Tate Stars were a Negro league baseball team from 1919 through 1923. They played as an independent (non-affiliated) team from 1919 through

African-American women's suffrage movement (2,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs' motto. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Sojourner–Douglass College (776 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sojourner–Douglass College was a private college organized around an Afrocentric focus of study and located in Baltimore, Maryland. The college was founded

Lynching of Claude Neal (2,248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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The Call (Kansas City) (1,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kansas City The Call, or The Call is an African-American weekly newspaper founded in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri, by Chester A. Franklin. It continues

Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Jones v. Mayer Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968), is a landmark United States

St. Louis Argus (979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

St. Louis Argus is an African-American-oriented weekly newspaper founded in 1912 by brothers Joseph Everett Mitchell and William Mitchell. Nannie Mitchell

Azusa Street Revival (4,403 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Origins of the Pentecostal Movement 1906–1913". The Journal of African American History. 95 (1): 1–25. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.1.0001. JSTOR 10.5323/jafriamerhist

Wilson Park, Baltimore (399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

39°20′49″N 76°36′07″W / 39.347°N 76.602°W / 39.347; -76.602 Wilson Park is a small community in northeast Baltimore, Maryland and one of the first African-American

Simmons College of Kentucky (1,223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Simmons College of Kentucky, formerly known as Kentucky Normal Theological Institute, State University at Louisville, and later as Simmons Bible College

Lynching of Michael Green (146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (Docket number: Civ. A. No. 1333; Case citation: 103 F. Supp. 337 (1952)) was one of the five cases

Lecompton Constitution (884 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Lecompton Constitution (1858) was the second of four proposed state constitutions of Kansas. Named for the city of Lecompton, Kansas where it was drafted

Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) (2,886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university (HBCU) near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute

Black Belt (region of Alabama) (1,571 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

32°36′41.82″N 87°34′39.05″W / 32.6116167°N 87.5775139°W / 32.6116167; -87.5775139 The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term

McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U.S. 637 (1950)

Belltown, Delaware (197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Belltown is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Belltown is located along U.S. Route 9, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest

United Nation of Islam (1,797 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The United Nation of Islam (UNOI) is a black American new religious movement based in Kansas City, Kansas. It was founded in 1978 as an offshoot of the

Alabama State University (2,404 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alabama State University (ASU, Bama State, or Alabama State) is a public historically Black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, during

Converse, Texas (1,086 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Converse is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown San Antonio. As of the 2020 census, it had a population

Oxford, Alabama (1,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Oxford is a city in Calhoun, Talladega, and Cleburne counties in the State of Alabama, United States. The population was 22,069 at the 2020 census,. Oxford

Berea, Baltimore (216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Berea is a neighborhood in the East District of Baltimore. Its boundaries are the south side of Sinclair Lane, the east side of Milton Avenue, the west

Wilberforce, Ohio (1,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wilberforce is a census-designated place (CDP) in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,410 at the 2020 census. After Wilberforce University

Children's Crusade (1963) (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized

Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park (514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park is a Florida State Park located in Dania Beach, Florida off Florida State Road A1A. The park is named for late

Liberation and Freedom Day (423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In a unanimous vote on July 1, 2019, the City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia, established a new city holiday, Liberation and Freedom Day, to be celebrated

George W. Lee (1,236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Bruce Boynton (778 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bruce Carver Boynton (June 19, 1937 – November 23, 2020) was an American civil rights leader who inspired the Freedom Riders movement and advanced the

Liberty Square, Baltimore (99 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Liberty Square is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. African Americans make up the vast majority of residents. Median household income: $30,665 (2011)

Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University

Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore (528 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sandtown-Winchester is a neighborhood in West Baltimore, Maryland. Known locally as Sandtown, the community's name was derived from the trails of sand

William Lewis Moore (1,048 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Lewis Moore (April 28, 1927 – April 23, 1963) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) member who staged lone protests against

Black Visions Collective (549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Black Visions Collective (BLVC) is an American nonprofit organization for Black liberation based in Minnesota, founded in December 2017. The group intersects

The City Sun (478 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The City Sun was a weekly newspaper that was published in Brooklyn from 1984 through 1996. Its primary focus was on issues of interest to African Americans

Strike for Black Lives (coalition protest) (895 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Strike for Black Lives was a mass walkout that occurred throughout the United States on July 20, 2020. Occurring during the George Floyd protests,

Chicago Bee (606 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Chicago Bee or Chicago Sunday Bee was a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded by Anthony Overton, an African American, in 1925. Its readership was

Lowndes County Freedom Organization (1,529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), also known as the Lowndes County Freedom Party (LCFP) or Black Panther party, was an American political

Mingo Jack (578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Spencer Churches (353 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Spencer Churches (less commonly called the Union Churches) are two African-American Christian denominations in the United States that resulted from

Iowa Bystander (560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Iowa Bystander was an Iowa newspaper serving African Americans. It was founded in Des Moines on June 15, 1894, by I. E. Williamson, Billy Colson, and

Clarksville Historic District (Austin, Texas) (931 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Clarksville Historic District in Austin, Texas, is an area located west of downtown Austin near Lady Bird Lake and just northeast of the intersection

Second Baptist Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) (953 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Second Baptist Church is a historic church building in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the mid-19th century, it is the

Dorchester, Baltimore (272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dorchester is a neighborhood in the Northwest District of Baltimore. It is located between the neighborhoods of Arlington (north), Central Forest Park

History of slavery in California (2,521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The history of slavery in California began with the enslavement of Indigenous Californians under Spanish colonial rule. The arrival of the Spanish colonists

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial (432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial is a memorial dedicated in 1994 recognizing the dead of the Port Chicago disaster, and the critical role

University Press of Mississippi (412 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2000 titles. The press is best known for its works pertaining to African American history, children's literature, pop culture media (e.g., film, television

Osteria la Spiga (1,017 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Osteria la Spiga is a Black-owned Italian restaurant on Seattle's Capitol Hill, in the U.S. state of Washington. Sabrina Tinsley is the chef and a co-owner

Little Rock Nine (4,923 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed

Wheat Street Baptist Church (627 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wheat Street Baptist Church is a historic black Baptist church located in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1869, the current

Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District (401 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African-American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the

Beale Street (2,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2

Negro Fort (3,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Negro Fort was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida

List of African-American historic places in Washington, D.C. (410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This list of African American Historic Places in Washington, D.C., is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National

George Floyd protests in Los Angeles County, California (4,830 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of protests that took place in Los Angeles County, California following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lynching of Jo Reed (689 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Dawson Park (Portland, Oregon) (316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Dawson Park is a historic urban park in north Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The 2.05 acres (0.83 ha) park is located at Stanton Street and North

Johnston Square, Baltimore (241 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Johnston Square is a neighborhood in central Baltimore, Maryland located east of the Fallsway and west of the Oliver neighborhood, bordered by Greenmount

East Baltimore Midway, Baltimore (156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

East Baltimore Midway is a neighborhood in the Eastern district of Baltimore, Maryland. Its boundaries are the south side of 25th Street, the east side

Westport, Baltimore (287 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Westport is a neighborhood in south Baltimore, Maryland. Westport is a majority African-American neighborhood that has struggled with crime, housing abandonment

Lynching of King Johnson (274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Marian Anderson House (560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Marian Anderson House is a historic home located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built circa 1870 in the same

Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, 377 U.S. 218 (1964), is a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that

Bluefield State University (1,756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bluefield State University is a public historically black university (HBCU) in Bluefield, West Virginia. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood

Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation (496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The African-American Catholic Congregation and its Imani Temples are an Independent Catholic church founded by Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Jr

A Nation Under Our Feet (222 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written in 2003

Allen University (1,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Allen University is a private historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It has more than 600 students and still serves

Philadelphia Stars (baseball) (2,098 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black

Whitehaven, Memphis (1,382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Whitehaven, informally known as "Blackhaven", is a predominantly African-American community in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It was first organized

Giles v. Harris (1,284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Giles v. Harris, 189 U.S. 475 (1903), was an early 20th-century United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state constitution's requirements

The Advocate (Portland, Oregon) (1,497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

a number of academic institutions. "The History of Portland's African American History (1805 to the Present)" (PDF). sos.oregon.gov. Archived from the

Newark Stars (194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Newark Stars were a Negro league baseball team in the Eastern Colored League, based in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926. The team's owner was Wilbur Crelin

Young Boys Inc. (833 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Young Boys Incorporated, also known as Y.B.I., was a major drug organization in Detroit, Michigan, who were among the first African American drug cartels

Atlanta Black Pride (575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Atlanta Black Pride started in 1996 and is one of two officially recognized festivals for the African-American LGBT community. It is held in Atlanta each

Mickey Cobras (941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Mickey Cobras are a gang based in Chicago and affiliated with People Nation. The gang is considered stable, and its colors are green, black, and red

Freedman's Savings Bank (2,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The data is considered historically important in the study of African American history. The bank's records of 480,000 names, estimated to be the largest

Black Chronicle (600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black Chronicle is an African-American weekly newspaper in the state of Oklahoma. Founded in April 1979 and based in Oklahoma City's Eastside, it is

Flanner House Homes (172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Flanner House Homes is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district encompasses 180 contributing buildings in the Project

St. Benedict the Moor Church (New York City) (691 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

40°45′52.81″N 73°59′11.61″W / 40.7646694°N 73.9865583°W / 40.7646694; -73.9865583 St. Benedict the Moor Church was a Black Catholic parish church in

Attack on John Shillady (1,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Limerick, Louisville (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Limerick is a neighborhood one mile south of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The neighborhood was developed in the 1860s as a place of residence for

Katz Drug Store sit-in (1,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Between August 19 and August 21, 1958, a group of Black students and their teacher held a peaceful sit-in at Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City to protest

Oakwood University (2,707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Justice before and during the Civil Rights Era". The Journal of African American History. 88 (2): 110–125. doi:10.2307/3559060. ISSN 1548-1867. JSTOR 3559060

Lynching of Willie James Howard (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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McLaughlin v. Florida (812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: McLaughlin v. Florida McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964), was a case in which the

Sundown town (4,325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

org. Retrieved October 1, 2024, from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/ Loewen, James William (2005). Sundown Towns: A Hidden

Ezell's Chicken (515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ezell's Famous Chicken is a Seattle fast food restaurant. The first restaurant was opened on February 3, 1984, in Seattle's Central District neighborhood

Benedict College (1,525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Benedict College is a private historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1870 by northern Baptists, it was originally

Ransom Place Historic District (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ransom Place Historic District is a national historic district in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The district consists mainly of a six-square block

The Railroad to Freedom (102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Children's literature portal The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War is a children's book by Hildegarde Swift. It is a fictionalized biography

Northwood, Baltimore (562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Northwood is a neighborhood in the northeastern section of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. Northwood is served by the New Northwood and the Original

Black Patriot (1,111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Black Patriots were African Americans who sided with the colonists who opposed British rule during the American Revolution. The term Black Patriots includes

Original Church of God or Sanctified Church (559 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Original Church of God or Sanctified Church is an association of holiness Christian churches headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The members and

Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (1,598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL) was a women's organization founded by Jessie Daniel Ames in Atlanta, Georgia in

Lynching of Francis McIntosh (1,340 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Z. Alexander Looby (1,194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Legal Fight for Civil Rights in Tennessee, 1940-1970". Journal of African American History. 88 (1): 42–58. doi:10.2307/3559047. JSTOR 3559047. S2CID 144093676

Lockefield Gardens (878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lockefield Gardens was the first public housing built in Indianapolis. Constructed during the years 1935 to 1938, it was built exclusively for low income

Mobile Black Bears (166 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Mobile Black Bears, also known as the Mobile Black Shippers, was a semi-professional baseball team composed entirely of African-American players. The

Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site (178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in Columbia, Missouri, maintained as a state historic site by the Missouri Department

Kelton House Museum and Garden (538 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Kelton House Museum and Garden is a Greek Revival and Italianate mansion in the Discovery District of Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The museum was established

The Charleston Chronicle (959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Charleston Chronicle was a weekly newspaper serving the African-American and Black communities in Charleston, South Carolina. The paper was founded

Compromise of 1877 (2,693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement, the Tilden-Hayes Compromise, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was a speculated

Malcolm X House Site (460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Malcolm X House Site located at 3448 Pinkney Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, marks the place where Malcolm X first lived with his family. The site

Milton-Montford, Baltimore (333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Milton-Montford is a neighborhood in the heart of East Baltimore, Maryland. Milton-Montford lies north of Patterson Park and south of Amtrak's Northeast

Golden Thirteen (1,324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Golden Thirteen were the thirteen African American enlisted men who became the first African American commissioned and warrant officers in the United

Lynching of George Armwood (791 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Cleveland Giants (196 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cleveland Giants were a Negro league baseball team. The team played for one year, 1933. Their home games were contested at Cleveland's Luna Bowl in

Pana riot (1,159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pana riot, or Pana massacre, was a coal mining labor conflict and also a racial conflict that occurred on April 10, 1899, in Pana, Illinois, and resulted

Plum Bistro (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Plum Bistro was a Black-owned restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. The business was Makini Howell's flagship restaurant. Plum Chopped

Orange Mound, Memphis (1,509 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Orange Mound, a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee, was the first US neighborhood to be built by African Americans. Built on the grounds of

Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1,143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Gomillion v. Lightfoot Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 364 U.S. 339 (1960), was a landmark decision

Point Lookout State Park (1,477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence

Lynching of Samuel Smith (821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Freedom's Journal (2,481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Freedom's Journal: A study in empowerment and community". Journal of African American History 88.1 (2003): 1–20. in JSTOR Bacon, Jacqueline. Freedom's Journal:

Langston Hughes, Baltimore (265 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Langston Hughes is a neighborhood in the Northwest District of Baltimore, located between the neighborhoods of Central Park Heights (east) and Woodmere

Boynton v. Virginia (939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American

Edmondson Village, Baltimore (388 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmondson Village is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of Baltimore, Maryland, encompassing most of the Edmondson Avenue corridor in 21229. The

Vanessa Williams (5,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, model, producer and dancer. She gained recognition as the first Black woman

D.C. Black Pride (544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

D.C. (District of Columbia) Black Pride is the first official black gay pride event in the United States and one of two officially recognized festivals

Randolph, Arizona (183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Randolph is a historically black populated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, located approximately 15 miles north of Picacho, and near Casa

Atlanta sit-ins (1,547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger civil

Broadway East, Baltimore (261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Broadway East is a neighborhood in the East District of Baltimore. Its boundaries are the south side of North Avenue, the west side of Milton Street, the

Columbia, Tennessee (2,758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. Columbia is included

Tenderloin, Manhattan (1,961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

40°44′56″N 73°59′17″W / 40.749°N 73.988°W / 40.749; -73.988 The Tenderloin was an entertainment and red-light district in the heart of the New York

The Philadelphia Tribune (2,670 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States. The paper began in 1884 when Christopher

Burkle Estate (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Burkle Estate is a historic home at 826 North Second Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is also known as the Slavehaven. Although disputed by some historians

San Juan Hill, Manhattan (1,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

San Juan Hill, also called Columbus Hill, was a community in what is now the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York

Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (742 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections,

The Philadelphia Tribune (2,670 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States. The paper began in 1884 when Christopher

Broadway East, Baltimore (261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Broadway East is a neighborhood in the East District of Baltimore. Its boundaries are the south side of North Avenue, the west side of Milton Street, the

Oliver, Baltimore (338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Oliver is a neighborhood in the Eastern district of Baltimore, Maryland. Its boundaries are the south side of North Avenue, the east side of Ensor Street

Expelled Because of Color (261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Expelled Because of Color is a bronze sculpture, 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, by John Thomas Riddle, Jr. It is located on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol

Burkle Estate (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Burkle Estate is a historic home at 826 North Second Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is also known as the Slavehaven. Although disputed by some historians

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San Juan Hill, also called Columbus Hill, was a community in what is now the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York

National Great Blacks In Wax Museum (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

history, and a Maryland room highlighting the contributions to African American history by notable Marylanders. The museum's co-founder, Dr. Joanne Martin

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Glen is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. It was developed in the early 1920s and 1930s, with the remaining development coming in the 1940s through

George Raymond Jr. (1,163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Raymond Jr. (January 1, 1943 – March 8, 1973) was an African-American civil rights activist, a member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. Columbia is included

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The Malcolm X House Site located at 3448 Pinkney Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, marks the place where Malcolm X first lived with his family. The site

Story of the Negro (882 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps is a children's history book published by Knopf in 1948. It was the first African-American authored book to receive

Silver Bluff Baptist Church (732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Silver Bluff Baptist Church was founded between 1774-1775 in Beech Island, South Carolina, by several enslaved African Americans who organized under

Obama Boulevard (424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

President Barack Obama Boulevard (commonly known as Obama Boulevard, formerly Rodeo Road) is a major thoroughfare in South Los Angeles. It stretches 3

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Allen v. Wright, 468 U.S. 737 (1984), was a United States Supreme Court case that determined that citizens do not have standing to sue a federal government

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Formations and the Black Power Resurgence of the 1990s". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 619–656. doi:10.1086/705022. S2CID 210503508. SPLC. "Fighting

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Now And Then African-American History Museum or the Baton Rouge African-American Museum, is a non-profit museum of African-American history and heritage

African Union Methodist Protestant Church (469 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The African Union Methodist Protestant Church (AUMPC), abbreviated as A.U.M.P. Church, is a Methodist denomination. It was chartered by Peter Spencer (1782–1843)

Black Brigade of Cincinnati (2,097 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Black Brigade of Cincinnati was a military unit of African-American soldiers, that was organized in 1862 during the American Civil War, when the city

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Salem Baptist Church is located at 3131 Lake Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded in 1922, it has played important roles in the history

Selma University (1,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Selma University is a private historically black Baptist Bible college in Selma, Alabama, U.S.. It is affiliated with the Alabama State Missionary Baptist

D.C. Black Pride (544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

D.C. (District of Columbia) Black Pride is the first official black gay pride event in the United States and one of two officially recognized festivals

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Teressa Raiford (born 1970) is an American activist and politician in Portland, Oregon. She founded the local Black-led non-profit Don't Shoot Portland

Atlanta's Berlin Wall (1,990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Atlanta's Berlin Wall, also known as the Peyton Road Affair or the Peyton Wall, refers to an event during the civil rights movement in Atlanta, Georgia

Trial of Michael Jackson (9,168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

People v. Jackson (full title: 1133603: The People of the State of California v. Michael Joe Jackson) was a 2005 criminal trial held in Santa Barbara County

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On August 19, 2015, a Moorish man named Mansur Ball-Bey was shot and killed by a St. Louis police officer who was executing a search warrant at a house

Ralph Ellison (3,597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which

Music of New Orleans (4,052 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The music of New Orleans assumes various styles of music which have often borrowed from earlier traditions. New Orleans is especially known for its strong

Institute for Colored Youth (1,040 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first college for African-Americans in

Thomas Stone National Historic Site (701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Thomas Stone National Historic Site, also known as Haberdeventure or the Thomas Stone House, is a United States National Historic Site located about

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Riggs Park is a residential neighborhood in Ward 4 of Northeast Washington, D.C. It is part of the greater Lamond-Riggs community (comprising the Lamond

Madison-Eastend, Baltimore (450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Madison-Eastend is a neighborhood in the heart of East Baltimore, Maryland. Madison-Eastend occupies 66.7 acres of land north of Patterson Park and south

Detroit Walk to Freedom (1,513 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Walk to Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on June 23, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or

Cincinnati riots of 1841 (1,701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cincinnati riots of 1841 occurred after a long drought had created widespread unemployment in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Over a period of several

Russell City, California (565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

37°39′10″N 122°08′01″W / 37.65278°N 122.13361°W / 37.65278; -122.13361 Russell City (also known as Russell) was an unincorporated community in Alameda

Harris–Stowe State University (1,509 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harris–Stowe State University (HSSU) is a public historically black university in St. Louis, Missouri. The university offers 50 majors, minors, and certificate

Field holler (1,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The field holler or field call is mostly a historical type of vocal work song sung by field slaves in the United States (and later by African American

Mosher, Baltimore (367 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mosher is a neighborhood in the western part of Baltimore, Maryland. Its boundaries are the north side of Edmondson Avenue, the west side of Braddish Avenue

Orishatukeh Faduma (1,083 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Orishatukeh Faduma (September 15, 1855 – January 25, 1946) was a British Guiana-born Nigerian-American Christian missionary and educator, who was also

2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections (2,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections (also called the San Francisco school board recall elections) were held on February 15, 2022

Regional Council of Negro Leadership (1,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) was a society in Mississippi founded by T. R. M. Howard in 1951 to promote a program of civil rights, self-help

Jewell Building (577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Jewell Building is a city landmark in North Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1923, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 2221

Rube Foster (2,749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Andrew "Rube" Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected

Sammy Younge Jr. (1,512 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. (November 17, 1944 – January 3, 1966) was a civil rights and voting rights activist who was murdered for trying to desegregate

Coushatta massacre (1,012 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Coushatta massacre (1874) was an attack by members of the White League, a white supremacist paramilitary organization composed of white Southern Democrats

The Negro Star (873 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Negro Star was an African American newspaper created by Hollie T. Sims that ran from 1908 to 1953. Sims founded the paper in Greenwood, Mississippi

Jewell Building (577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Jewell Building is a city landmark in North Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1923, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 2221

Rube Foster (2,749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Andrew "Rube" Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected

Killing of Anthony Weber (879 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On February 4, 2018, Anthony Weber, a 16-year-old African-American boy, was fatally shot by deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in

2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections (2,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections (also called the San Francisco school board recall elections) were held on February 15, 2022

Stillman College (1,763 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stillman College is a private historically black Presbyterian college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It awards Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1,569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (née St. Pierre; August 31, 1842 – March 13, 1924) was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist

Zion Baptist Church (Omaha, Nebraska) (275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

41°16′46″N 95°56′45″W / 41.2795°N 95.9458°W / 41.2795; -95.9458 Zion Baptist Church is located at 2215 Grant Street in the Near North Side neighborhood

Associated Negro Press (2,031 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Associated Negro Press (ANP) was an American news service founded in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois by Claude Albert Barnett. The ANP had correspondents

Barack Obama 2008 presidential election victory speech (1,698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Following his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election, then-President-elect Barack Obama, who was 47 years old at the time, gave his victory

Angola, Delaware (572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Angola is an unincorporated community adjacent to the Angola Neck peninsula in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Angola is located on an inlet of

Orval Faubus (2,948 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Orval Eugene Faubus (/ˈfɔːbəs/ FAW-bəs; January 7, 1910 – December 14, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Arkansas from

Ashburton, Baltimore (825 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ashburton is a middle class, predominantly African-American neighborhood in the Forest Park region of northwestern Baltimore City, Maryland. It is located

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from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2015. African American history at Travel Portland Historic Sculptures Archived 2015-08-10 at the

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This is a list of African American Historic Places in Georgia. This was originally based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press

Peg Leg Joe (936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peg Leg Joe is a legendary sailor and underground railroad conductor, popularly associated with the song "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd". According to the

Darien, Georgia (2,396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Darien (/dɛəriˈɛn/) is a city in and the county seat of McIntosh County, Georgia, United States. It lies on Georgia's coast at the mouth of the Altamaha

March Against Fear (2,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5,

Mount Vernon (Columbus, Ohio) (404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Mount Vernon is a predominantly African-American historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The neighborhood lies within the historic Near

Fort Robinson (1,353 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fort Robinson is a former U.S. Army fort and now a major feature of Fort Robinson State Park, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) public recreation and historic preservation

An Appeal for Human Rights (1,388 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

An Appeal for Human Rights is a civil rights manifesto initially printed as an advertisement in Atlanta newspapers on March 9, 1960 that called for ending

Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson (2,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist

Holmes v. Ford (549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Holmes v. Ford was an American court case in the Oregon Territory that freed a slave family in the territory in 1853. The decision re-affirmed that slavery

Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site (554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Site located at 110½ E. Leigh Street

Bucks of America (814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Bucks of America was a Patriot Massachusetts Militia company, during the American Revolutionary War, that was composed of African-American soldiers

Baker v. Carr (1,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English Wikisource has original text related to this article: Baker v. Carr Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court

Boston African American National Historic Site (1,683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American church in the country is operated as part of the Museum of African American History. Displays include speeches from well-informed orators. Built in

Cambridge, Maryland (3,407 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13,096 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dorchester County

Screws v. United States (863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Lynching of Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman (1,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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16th Street Baptist Church (1,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing

Ella Fitzgerald (7,018 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved February 23, 2014. Horton, James Oliver (2005). Landmarks of African American History. Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-19-514118-4. Retrieved

Killing of Antonio Martin (1,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The shooting of Antonio Martin occurred on December 23, 2014, in Berkeley, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Martin, an 18-year-old black male, was fatally

Indiana Avenue (895 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Indiana Avenue is a historic area in downtown and is one of seven designated cultural districts in Indianapolis, Indiana. Indiana Avenue was, during its

Field holler (1,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The field holler or field call is mostly a historical type of vocal work song sung by field slaves in the United States (and later by African American

Homewood (Pittsburgh) (1,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Homewood is a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, officially divided into three neighborhoods: Homewood

Barbara Rose Johns (2,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) was a leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16

Earl G. Graves Sr. (956 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to be on the Presidential Commission for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. On April 26, 2007, Earl G. Graves Sr. was inducted

Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge (1,255 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge is a photograph of Ieshia Evans, a nurse from Pennsylvania, being arrested by police officers dressed in riot gear during

Weeksville, Brooklyn (1,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Weeksville is a historic neighborhood founded by free African Americans in Brooklyn. Today it is part of the present-day neighborhood of Crown Heights

East Bay Dragons (1,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The East Bay Dragons MC is an all-black, all-male, all-Harley Davidson riding outlaw motorcycle club founded in Oakland, California, in 1959 by Tobie Gene

1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation (1,641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation was the largest escape of a group of slaves to occur in the Cherokee Nation, in what was then Indian Territory

Collier Heights (906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Historic Collier Heights is a historically middle-class and predominately African-American populated area in western Atlanta. It is bordered to the west

WOL (AM) (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

WOL (1450 kHz) is an urban talk AM radio station in Washington, D.C. This is the flagship radio station of Radio One. It is co-owned with WKYS, WMMJ, WPRS

Lynching of Ephraim Grizzard (1,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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Bolling v. Sharpe (2,072 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497 (1954), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution prohibits segregated