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ISBN. 978-1573929639. 100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley. First published in 1992, Salley's book is ...
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
Erica Garner, civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist [ 21] Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ernest Green, civil rights activist, part of the Little Rock Nine. Fred Gray, civil rights lawyer. Shields Green, abolitionist. Dick Gregory, civil rights activist.
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
Rhiannon Giddens, a Black and Indigenous country artist, is also a music historian who has made it one of her life’s missions to remind people that the banjo is an African diasporic creation.
The phrase Black Lives Matter was born out of a Facebook post from Alicia Garza after the July 13, 2013, acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman shot ...
During the history of the Latter Day Saint movement, the relationship between Black people and Mormonism has included enslavement, exclusion and inclusion, and official and unofficial discrimination. [ 1]: 1–5 Black people have been involved with the Latter Day Saint movement since its inception in the 1830s. [ 2]: 37 Their experiences have ...