African American history

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Meet The African Americans Who Worked Under President J.F Kennedy’s Administration

Martin Luther King, Jr. was imprisoned in a Georgia state prison for a traffic...

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Meet J.B. Stradford The Man Described As The Bezos Of Black Wall Street In Tulsa, Oklahoma

It pains me to learn that few Americans can link Black material poverty to...

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Dangerfield Newby, The Real Django, Who Fought And Died To Free His Family From Slavery & Inspired The Civil War

Dangerfield Newby, The Real Django: In the 2012 film Django Unchained, a freed slave...

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Meet Henry Blair The African American Who Invented The Mechanical Corn Planter In 1834

Henry Blair was an African-American inventor who, with his mechanical corn planter, became only...

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Benjamin T. Montgomery Invented A Steamboat Propeller In 1864 But Was Denied A Patent Because He Was Enslaved

Benjamin T. Montgomery Invented A Steamboat Propeller: African-American inventors have held their own in...

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History Of George Carruthers, The Black Inventor Whose Camera Took The First Pictures Of Space

“Amazing scientist, engineer, professor, and mentor, he will be remembered.” The National Society of...

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How 2,000 Blacks Were Held At Gunpoint & Used As Barriers During The Great Mississippi Flood Of 1927

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 flooded 27,000 square miles over seven states over...

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Meet Dr. Shirley Jackson, Black Woman Who Invented The Caller ID And Call Waiting

Due to the vital study of an African-American woman, Dr. Shirley Jackson, the Call...

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History Of Black Adventurer Who Joined Lewis And Clark On Their Expedition & Was Denied His Freedom After (York)

When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark planned to embark on an expedition to the...

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How 20,000 Freed Slaves Died In Mississippi Concentration Camp From Starvation After The Civil War (Devil’s Punchbowl)

The Devil’s Punchbowl: The South is viewed as the wickedest in America’s turbulent past...