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Ads by Google      African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or simply blacks are an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West and Central Africa. For example, in the early 20th century, African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass, who had slaves as mothers and white fathers, were referred to as mulattoes. Previous terms used to identify Americans of African ancestry were conferred upon the group by whites and were included in the wording of various laws and legal decisions which became tools of white supremacy and oppression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American      African American - encyclopedia article about African American. African American history African American history is the history of an ethnic group in the United States also known as black Americans. For example, in the early 20th century, African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass, who had slaves as mothers and white fathers, were referred to as mulattoes. Previous terms used to identify Americans of African ancestry were conferred upon the group by whites and were included in the wording of various laws and legal decisions which became tools of white supremacy and oppression. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/African+American   (4318 words)      Pan American Congress The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress) This exhibit marks the publication of a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture. american congress american bowling congress congress bowling congress singapores congress sexual congress congress representative congress system united states congress world congress psychotherapy american greetings american american plastic American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife," the Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music. http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Pan_American_Congress.html   (501 words)      African American - encyclopedia article about African American. African American history African American history is the history of an ethnic group in the United States also known as black Americans. For example, in the early 20th century, African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass, who had slaves as mothers and white fathers, were referred to as mulattoes. Previous terms used to identify Americans of African ancestry were conferred upon the group by whites and were included in the wording of various laws and legal decisions which became tools of white supremacy and oppression. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/African+American   (4318 words)      African American History Brief Summary - An excerpt on African American art taken from Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It consists of test questions based on the lives of important 19th century African Americans. The site also contains Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last public speech in support of the sanitation workers and links to other African American labor history web sites. http://www.aawc.com/aah.html   (4318 words)      National African American History Month 2004 This year's National African American History Month celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. During National African American History Month, we honor the heritage and accomplishments of African Americans and recognize their extraordinary contributions to the United States. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2004 as National African American History Month. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040204-2.html   (4318 words)      Fact Sheet - HIV/AIDS Among African Americans - CDC-NCHSTP-Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention African Americans accounted for 16,165 (50%) of the 32,048 estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the United States in the 32 states with confidential name-based HIV reporting [2]. Of the 59 US children younger than 13 years of age who had a new AIDS diagnosis, 40 were African American. Fact Sheet - HIV/AIDS Among African Americans - CDC-NCHSTP-Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/afam.htm   (4318 words)      Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. - Mu Rho Chapter - Version 1.9.1914 The American labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), considered the most prominent of all African American trade unionists, was one of the major figures in the struggle for civil rights. Out of his belief that the African American can never be politically free until he was economically secure, Randolph became the foremost advocate of the full integration of black workers into the American trade union movement. The uphill battle for certification, marked by fierce resistance from the Pullman Company (who was then the largest employers of blacks in the country), was finally won in 1937 and made possible the first contract ever signed by a white employer with an African American labor leader. http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/sigmas/aprandolph.html   (821 words)      African American Literature African American History at the Maryland State Archives Includes "A Brief history of African Americans in West Virginia," "A Timeline of West Virginia African American History," "African Americans in the Counties of Present Day West Virginia in 1860," "Biographies of Prominent African Americans in West Virginia," and "History of the American Negro: Vol. The Circle Association is a brotherhood of African American men based in Buffalo, New York who, among other activities, maintain web sites on African American themes and issues, including one for the Harlem Renaissance. http://www.bluefield.wvnet.edu/library/afamlinks.htm   (3669 words)      Black Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Today's black Canadians are largely of Caribbean origin, some of African origin (especially, but not exclusively, from Somalia) and smaller numbers from Latin American countries, but a sizable number of black Canadians descended from freed American slaves can still be found in the province of Nova Scotia and parts of Southwestern Ontario. Some Black Canadians, like those in Nova Scotia, trace their ancestry to freed black American slaves who fled to Canada seeking refuge from American slavery and institutional racism. The vast majority of them are Christian, mostly African United Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal, and Roman Catholic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canadian   (1763 words)      MSN Encarta - Harlem Renaissance Furthermore, the existence of the body of African American literature from the Renaissance inspired writers such as Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright to pursue literary careers in the late 1930s and the 1940s. The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such writers as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison also had its roots in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance. The influence of the Harlem Renaissance was not confined to the United States. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566483   (1704 words)      American party on Encyclopedia.com Analysis: Increase of African-Americans in the Republican Party A courtship worth watching.(Republican Party's courting of African American voters) Fallen "Idols" The wannabe "American Idols" who have returned to St. Louis from Hollywood aren't singing the blues. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-A1mer-par.asp   (382 words)      African Americans and American Politics Congress there were 39 African Americans serving in Congress (38 in the House, 1 in the Senate). In the 1830s, the French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across the United States and observed that the “basic fact” of American life was its “equality of conditions.” Egalitarianism defined American political culture for Tocqueville. In the comfort of their homes, Americans watched with horror as peaceful demonstrators all over the South were sprayed down with firehoses, attacked with police dogs, beaten and dragged through the streets and arrested by white police. http://webpage.pace.edu/cmalone/encyclopediaintro.htm   (7838 words)      Harlem Renaissance This 2-part resource is part of the Library of Congress' African American Odyssey project. 2) African-American Art and the Political Dissent During the Harlem Renaissance by V. Belton The Harlem Renaissance was the first emergence of African-American culture in American society. http://www.42explore2.com/harlem.htm   (1671 words)      Emergence of Museums and Institutes for African-American Civil Rights, History and Culture African-American Civil Rights/Historical Museums have arisen as vehicles to extol the dignity of the quest for human rights by people of African-American descent. By placing African-American people at the center of their own struggle, the African-American Historical/Civil Rights Museum impels other ethnic groups to begin to understand African-American people and their contributions to this society. Although each of these institutions has its unique local variations on a common theme, they nonetheless share the common theme of defining the major struggle of African Americans for human rights in the United States through African-American eyes. http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/1998-02/museum.shtml   (1689 words)      African Americans One of history's great judicial figures, Marshall was a landmark-setting lawyer (such as in Brown vs. Board of Education), and later became the first African-American on the U.S. Supreme Court. African American Literature Syllabi--from the Teaching American Literature (T-AMLIT) archive at Georgetown University. African Americans in the Santa Clara Valley--The Coalition of African American organizations was formed to unite African Americans in Sacramento to work on common agendas, and to eleminate the social ills that affect the African American community. http://ci.unlv.edu/Dept/MCult/African.html   (5499 words)      SacObserver.com [GOVERNMENT] Voter Registration Office Opens Locally The African American Voter Registration, Education and Participation Project was started prior to the 2000 election. The project's objective is to increase African American voter registration and participation rates and its Southern California office is located in Los Angeles. "The African American Voter REP project was established to re-energize the African American community and remind them of the value of their vote and their voice," Ridley-Thomas said. http://www.sacobserver.com/government/100203/voter_education_office.shtml   (5499 words)      Ethnic Studies Research Guide - Marriott Library The African American Almanac, Formerly, the Negro Almanac. However, it does not claim to be a complete record of the history of African Americans. It covers African American in the United States beginning in 1619 through most of the Twentieth Century. http://www.lib.utah.edu/ResGuides/Ethnic_Studies.html   (2599 words)      UGA African American Studies African Americans have criticized Washington for what they saw as his overly-deferential attitude to his white benefactors and for his position that university education was basically irrelevant for blacks, who should concentrate on vocational training. In 1992 Moseley-Braun was elected a Senator (D.) from Illinois, becoming the first African American woman to sit in the U.S. Senate and only the second African American since Reconstruction to be a Senator. Furious at the official government policy that mandated whites' and African Americans' blood would be given only to members of their respective races, he resigned from his post and returned to Howard. http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/History.html   (2599 words)      MNHS.ORG Library History Topics African American Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement grew out of a century of grassroots efforts in a long struggle for racial justice for African Americans. Topics include abortion, Indians, Blacks (African Americans), civil rights, Mexican Americans, migrant workers, school desegregation and busing, welfare programs, and women's rights. The biography of a pioneer in early desegregation, anti-lynching, and civil rights cases, and a tireless activist and organizer for African American civil rights. http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/97civil.html   (1991 words)      Manuscripts Dept, UNC at Chapel Hill Letters concern American race problems in general (1933); civil liberties in regard to African Americans, Jews, and the Ku Klux Klan (1939); the education of African Americans in Mississippi (1940); segregation in the South (1956, 1964); and the Ku Klux Klan (1964). Scattered family correspondence refers to African Americans in the New Congress in Washington DC (1866) and to an African-American politician in Charleston (1868). Letters and papers of Caruthers, lawyer, state legislator, Whig politician, founder and professor of law at Cumberland University, U.S. Representative, state supreme court justice, and Confederate governor of Tennessee. http://www.upress.virginia.edu/epub/pyatt/chap01.html   (15724 words)      Composers of African Descent DAWSON, WILLIAM LEVI (1899-1990) U.S. William Levi Dawson was an African American composer, arranger and educator born in Anniston, Alabama. Robert Nathaniel Dett was an African American composer, pianist and music educator who was born in Canada but moved to the U.S. as a youth. Most members were African American, but some were white. http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/others~ns4.html   (15724 words)      VG: New Updates African American Literature Syllabi A collection of course syllabi on African American Literature compiled as part of the Archive of Teaching Materials and Resources to complement the T-AMLIT LISTSERV maintained at Georgetown University, which focuses on the teaching of American... African American Authors of West Virginia Selected achievements of African American authors from West Virginia, compiled by the Bridgeport public library of West Virginia.... African American Literature Syllabi A collection of course syllabi on African American Literature compiled as part of the Archive of Teaching Materials and Resources to complement the T-AMLIT LISTSERV maintained at Georgetown University, which focuses on the teaching of... http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/newupdates/resources-new.html   (1979 words)      BUBL LINK: North american history Subjects: african americans, north american history, slavery, united states civil war Provides a civil rights timeline, black history quizzes, information about Negro league baseball and hockey players, blacks in the military, and various data including US states with an African American population of over one million, and annual earnings by educational attainment, race, and sex. Pointers to African American history material, as well as an extensive repository of primary documents. http://www.bubl.ac.uk/link/n/northamericanhistory.htm   (1979 words)      List Of American Authors on Almondnet List of American Authors and American Literature Authors and Famous American Authors and American Author Biography... Find list of american authors and more at Lycos Search. Native American Writers and Native American Poets and Effects of Native American Literature and Contemporary Native American Authors for Children... http://major-kitchen-appliances.co.uk/kitchen/list_of_american_authors.html   (370 words)      Million Worker March on Washington: flexing labor's independent muscle At the 1963 March on Washington, the great African American labor leader A. Philip Randolph said: "All who deplore our militancy, who exhort patience... In calling for the march, African American leaders of the longshore workers of Local 10 are continuing an impressive tradition. • The 330,000-strong American Postal Workers Union voted at their annual convention to endorse the march. http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol25no4/mwm.html   (906 words)      American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He urged African American communities to meet the white supremacist group known as the Ku Klux Klan armed and ready for battle because he felt it was the only way to ever rid the communities of the terror caused by the Klan. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to primarily African American citizens of United States. The American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, and Anti-Defamation League became active in promoting civil rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955-1968)   (7892 words)      AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS African American Journey: The Modern Civil Rights Movement She was physically tired and exhausted from working all day and was fed up with the treatment she and other African Americans received every day of their lives, with the racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws of the time. She aided African-American citizens pass tests that were designed to difficult for them to pass. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8443/ro.html   (442 words)      Black Independent Voter Network Some African Americans have accused the Democratic Party of practicing "plantation politics." They say that although blacks repeatedly are depended on to keep the party in elected office, African Americans often are overlooked for key leadership posts. The real down low is the correlation between the rise in the prison population of African American men and the increase risk of leaving the prison with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and or tuberculosis. We have a problem when the number of Americans living in poverty grew from 34.5 million in 2002 to 35.8 million in 2003, while the most affluent fifth of the population received half of all household income and the poorest fifth received only 3.5 percent. http://blackindependentvoter.blogspot.com   (442 words)      African American Literature Includes "A Brief history of African Americans in West Virginia," "A Timeline of West Virginia African American History," "African Americans in the Counties of Present Day West Virginia in 1860," "Biographies of Prominent African Americans in West Virginia," and "History of the American Negro: Vol. Although the journal is meant to promote new writing and younger writers, the editors are also mindful of their debt to African American literary elders, and include material by and about them. Contains links to electronic texts by notable African American writers, as well as teacher resource guides that may include writer biographies, discussions of their works, and samples of their writing. http://www.bluefield.wvnet.edu/library/afamlinks.htm   (3550 words)

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