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Hace 20 horas · African Americans are largely the descendants of enslaved people who were brought from their African homelands by force to work in the New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States.
- 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...
- The Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement. At the end of World War II,...
- African Americans
The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak...
- The Civil War Era
African American leaders such as author William Wells Brown,...
- A New Direction
African Americans - Civil Rights, Education, Equality: The...
- The Age of Booker T. Washington
13 de may. de 2024 · Black History Month, monthlong commemoration of African American history and achievement that takes place each February in the United States. It was begun in 1976 as an expansion of Negro History Week, which was itself begun in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson.
Hace 4 días · A group of enslaved Africans arrived in the English Virginia Colony in 1619, marking the beginning of slavery in the colonial history of the United States; by 1776, roughly 20% of the British North American population was of African descent, both free and enslaved.
Hace 2 días · 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.
15 de may. de 2024 · Harlem Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Learn more about the Harlem Renaissance, including its noteworthy works and artists, in this article.
Hace 3 días · 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.
16 de may. de 2024 · African American Heritage provides essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation records, Military Draft and service records, Registers of Slaves and Free Persons of Color, Freedman’s Bank, and more.
