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Reconstruction program announced

  • May 29, 1865
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President Andrew Johnson announced his program of Reconstruction. It required ratification of the 13th amendmant, but did not guarantee black suffrage.

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Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven
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Meek, Carrie (1926- )
Carrie Meek was born on April 29, 1926, in Tallahassee, Florida. Her parents were sharecroppers and her childhood neighborhood was racially segregated.  Meek attended and graduated from Florida A&M University. Graduate schools in Florida were still segregated at this time so she was forced to
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COVID-19's Economic Fallout Is Hitting The Black Community Hard, Too
“Institutional racism and historical discrimination have meant that Black workers have fared worse in the labor market, even in good times,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the progressive Economic Policy Institute who co-authored a report this week looking at the devastating toll COVID-19
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“The Yellow Rose of Texas”: The Ironic Origins of a Popular Song
While many Americans are familiar with the song, The Yellow Rose of Texas, few know the story of Emily West, the African American woman who was the inspiration for its creation.  In the excerpt below from a longer article that first appeared in 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Franklin, John Hope (1915--2009)
John Hope Franklin, one of the nations leading historians, is the only African American who has served as president of both the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians
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2009
Barack Obama
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Afrocentrism
For the study of African culture and history, see African
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Nicodemus, Kansas (1877- )
Nicodemus, Kansas was founded in 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction Period. It soon became one of the most famous mostly black communities in the country formed by freedpeople migrating west.  Nicodemus is located on the plains in the northwest corner of the state along the Solomon River in
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Edward Waters College [Jacksonville] (1866- )
Edward Waters College was founded in 1866 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) for the education of newly freed slaves. Located near downtown Jacksonville, Florida, the college currently sits on 23 acres and houses Centennial Hall (a nationally registered historic structure), the
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Anthony Johnson - African American Trailblazers
The African American Trailblazers honors the African American contribution to the American story and the significant accomplishments of twelve (12) heroic African Americans in areas such as the arts, sciences, politics, education, and
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Birth of a Nation
On February 18, 1915, the silent film Birth of a Nation (originally titled The Clansman) by director/producer D.W. Griffith premiered at Clunes Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The 12-reel, three-hour-long film was a first in American film history for its length, cost, music, and
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Minneapolis City Council announces plans to dismantle police department | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The city council is committed to ‘end policing as we know it,’ according to the council
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Turner, Benjamin Sterling (1825-1894)
Benjamin Sterling Turner, a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama during the Reconstruction period, was born on March 17, 1825 in Weldon, North Carolina. He was raised as a slave and as a child received no formal education. In 1830 Turner moved to Selma, Alabama with his
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21
1894
(1875) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Great Problem to be Solved”
After the Civil War Frances Ellen Watkins Harper worked among African Americans as a representative of the Womens Christian Temperance Union. From her new position Harper publicized the violence and intimidation in the South directed at the freedpeople. She argued African Americans must organize to
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Apr
14
1875
African American History and Women Timeline 1870-1899
[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1870-1899 • 15th Amendment to the US Constitution gave the right to vote without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude -- but the Amendment did not apply to African American women (or any other women) • Susan McKinney Stewart,
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First Baptist Church, Petersburg, Virginia (1756- )
It was these energetic young black members of the New Lights, as they were called, who assumed leadership roles and formally established First African Baptist Church in 1774 near Lunenburg, Virginia, on the William Byrd III plantation.  Free members of the congregation later moved to Petersburg and
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
In The Ties That Bound, professor and author Marie Jenkins Schwartz, examines the relationships that developed between the First Ladies and their slaves in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all
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Elliott, Robert Brown (1842–1884)
Robert Brown Elliott, Reconstruction-era Congressman, was born in 1842 in Liverpool, England. He attended High Holborn Academy in London, England and then studied law, graduating from Eton College in 1859. From there he joined the British Royal Navy.  Elliott decided to settle in South Carolina in
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1884
Macon Bolling Allen: First African-American Licensed Attorney
Macon Bolling Allen was not only the first African-American licensed to practice law in the United States, he was also the first to hold a judicial
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Black populism
Following the collapse of Reconstruction, African Americans created a broad-based independent political movement in the South: Black
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Meek, Kendrick (1966- )
Kendrick Meek, former highway patrolman, Florida state representative, and state senator, has served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Florida’s 17th District since 2003. Meek was born on September 6, 1966 in Miami, Florida, and is the son of former
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6
1966
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1896)
The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1896) refers to the post-Civil War reform movements in the United States aimed at eliminating racial discrimination against African Americans, improving educational and employment opportunities, and establishing electoral power. This period between
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Racial Uplift, Black Power, and Reparations on the Kansas Frontier: Abram T. Hall, Edward P. McCabe, and John W. Niles
In the article below independent historian Charlotte Hinger explores the concept of racial uplift, black electoral power and reparations for slavery in the ideals of three early citizens of Nicodemus, the most famous 19th Century black town in the
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Cayton, Horace Roscoe (1859-1940)
Horace Roscoe Cayton spent nearly all his life combating racism. The child of a Mississippi slave, Cayton came of age during the Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction eras and had already cultivated strong opinions on human, political, and civil rights by the time he settled in
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1920
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan (21 Feb 1936 – 17 Jan 1996) was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement and an American politician. She was not just a democrat but the first African-American, man or woman, to be elected post Reconstruction to the Texas Senate. On her death, Jordan became the first African-American
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Tavis Smiley To Host Joint Interview With African American Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) And Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Tavis Smiley on PBS, returning for its 12th season on Monday, Jan. 12, will feature a two-part, exclusive joint interview during its premiere week with the only two African Americans in the U.S. Senate – New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, and South Carolina Republican Tim
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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress
In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close a thirty two year period when nearly forty Southern African Americans sat in Congress, White used
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Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National
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Africa Development Bank blacklists Chinese company building Kenyan power project
“An investigation conducted by the Bank’s Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption established that Sinotec Company Limited misrepresented its experience, the value and dates of its reference contracts and its relationship with other bidders while participating in three Bank-financed tenders under
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial
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