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1 giorno fa · The early history of Black people in the Americas. Africans assisted the Spanish and the Portuguese during their early exploration of the Americas. In the 16th century some Black explorers settled in the Mississippi valley and in the areas that became South Carolina and New Mexico.
- The Age of Booker T. Washington
When slavery was abolished in 1865, African Americans were...
- Slavery in the United States
African Americans - Slavery, Resistance, Abolition: Enslaved...
- Great Depression, New Deal, Struggles
The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak...
- The Civil War Era
African American leaders such as author William Wells Brown,...
- The Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement. At the end of World War II,...
- Television and Film
African Americans - TV, Film, Representation: Nat King Cole...
- The Age of Booker T. Washington
2 giorni fa · During the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, some African-American leaders in the United States, notably Malcolm X, objected to the word Negro because they associated it with the long history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination that treated African Americans as second-class citizens, or worse.
5 giorni fa · Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican, led the first mass black nationalist organization in the United States, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), during the 1920s. Like 19th-century black nationalists, Garvey advocated an independent state for people of African descent, black uplift, and the “civilizing” of Africa.
2 giorni fa · Marcus Garvey, charismatic Black leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem. He reached the height of his power in 1920, when he presided at an international convention, with delegates present from 25 countries.
- Marcus Garvey organized the United States’ first Black nationalist movement. In the years following World War I, he urged Black Americans to be pro...
- Marcus Garvey left his native Jamaica for the United States in 1916. He established branches of his Universal Negro Improvement Association through...
- Marcus Garvey’s style of Black nationalism clashed with that of the 1920s Black establishment, notably with W.E.B. Du Bois, head of the National As...
- While Marcus Garvey’s views were unorthodox for the time, his influence ultimately declined when he began to engage in questionable business dealin...
2 giorni fa · Joseph Smith's views on Black people varied during his lifetime. As founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, Smith included Black people in many ordinances and priesthood ordinations but had differing views on racial segregation and the curses of Cain and Ham.
2 giorni fa · The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places.
1 giorno fa · Shirley Chisholm. As African Americans gained new access to white-dominated institutions, the freedom struggle moved inside from the streets. On college campuses, black students fought for and won the creation of Afro-American Studies programs and financial aid policies that would allow children of lower-income families to get college educations.
