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A Brief History of Brother James Weldon Johnson
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1871 Born in Jacksonville, Florida, June 17 1894 Graduated from Atlanta University 1897 First black admitted to Florida bar 1899 Wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with his brother
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A look into the Soul of A Black Man
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I'd like to thank the people at the Afro American Web Ring for awarding my site with the TOP SITE AWARD. I hope I can continue to make the people of the Afro American Web Ring as well as my readers...
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About Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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Up from slavery : an autobiography, by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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Adult years of T. J. Sellers
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Between 1931 and 1934 (20 and 23 years of age), there were drastic changes in Sellers' life. During these years, Sellers married a woman named Eleanora and moved to 909 Anderson Street in Charlott...
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African American Diva Lady's Website
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Sections cover books, exercise, stress, parenting, and poetry. Meet the featured diva, and visit the "4 Brothers" section to stop snoring.
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African American Journey: Cuffe, Paul
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Cuffe, Paul: a hero in black history. A biography of Paul Cuffe, an African American merchant of the early 1800's who tried to start a colony of free blacks in Sierra Leone, Africa, and who worked for civil rights of African Americans in the United
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African American Journey: Russwurm, John Brown
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Russwurm, John Brown: a hero in black history. A biography of John Brown Russwurm, an African American newspaper editor and abolitionist who in 1827 cofounded Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. Later moved to Liberia.
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Alex Palmer Haley (1925-1992)
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American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States.
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Alexander Crummell
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Until recently, Alexander Crummell was not often discussed in black history yet his influence on Black people during his time has survived to this day.
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alt.culture: West, Cornel
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West Professor of Afroamerican studies and the philosophy of religion, has collaborated with bell hooks and Tikkan editor Michael Lerner; he is also honary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Anthony Overton - Born Entrepreneur
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Although born into slavery in 1865, in Monroe, Louisiana, this fact does not appear to have been a deterrence to Overton. After the Civil War, when his family moved to Kansas, he attended public schools and, in 1888, earned a bachelor of laws degree from
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Barack Obama - U.S. Senator for Illinois
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Thank you for visiting my online U.S. Senate office. It is an honor and privilege to represent you in the United States Senate. As your newly elected Senator, I want to be your voice in Washington, but first I need to hear your thoughts and concerns.
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Baraka, Amiri - Africana
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Resource contains biographical information on African American writer Amiri Baraka. Read about his life and works.
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Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
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Rustin was involved in the civil rights movement throughout the 1950's. He worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr . and A. Phillip Randolph in laying the foundations for the movement. Rustin was an instrumental advisor to King in organizing the Southe
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BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS
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Benjamin Elijah Mays, educator, was born in 1895 in South Carolina, and graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1920. He went to the University of Chicago for his masters degree and doctorate, and while he was working on those degrees, he was ordained in
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Benjamin L. Hooks
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For 15 years Benjamin L. Hooks presided over America's largest and most influential organization for blacks, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Bill Picket
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The Original "Bulldogger". Bill Pickett invented the cowboy sport of bulldogging. Bulldogging (or steer wrestling) involves riding after a steer on horseback, leaping from the saddle to grab the steer by the horns (one in each hand).
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Black community needs a leader like Thomas
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Black community needs a leader like Thomas An important issue surrounding the Clarence Thomas nomination controversy is the issue of black leadership. The media has seemed to focus upon women's rights and the right of a fair trial for Thomas in ad
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Black Men Doing Positive Things - Home
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"Black Men Doing Positive Things" Booklet CAME OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME ON AUGUST 1, 1999. VOL.1 ADVERTISEMENT CONTRACT The "Black Men Doing Positive Things" Booklet came out for...
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Black Men In America.com
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Black Men In America.com is the premier online for black men with relevant content for women. Also on the site are columnists, commentary, black interest news, online stores and more.
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Bobby Seale's Homepage, Black Panther Party Founder
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Bobby Seale The Revolutionary Humanist for the younger generation, and a sixties ICON! The Founder, Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party [BPP], U.S.A. [1966-1974].
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Brown, H. Rap - The Third World and the Ghetto
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Presents the text of a speech delivered by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, speaking on behalf of the Black Panther Party.
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Cain, Herman - African-American Cuisine Newsletter
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Profile of the first black president of the National Restaurant Association focuses on his principles and drive.
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Carl Murphy-The Afro-American
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Carl Murphy (1889-1967) Journalist, publisher, civil rights leader, educator. Carl Murphy was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 17, 1889 to John...
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Carl Rowan Press Club Honoree
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| 2115 | 5.65 | 22 | 01-01-2002 |
The award, conferred by the Club's Board of Governors, will be presented on Thursday, November 4, 1999 at a black-tie reception and dinner. Several leading figures in the nation's capital, where he has lived since 1961, will join in the salute to Mr. Rowa
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Carter G. Woodson
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Carter Goodwin Woodson, Founder of the ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY
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Carter Godwin Woodson, 1875-1950. The History of the Negro Church.
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Carter Godwin Woodson, 1875-1950 The History of the Negro Church. Washington, D. C.: The Associated Publishers, 1921. A CHRISTIANIZED AFRICAN Frontispiece Return to Menu Page for The History of the Ne
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Charles Gilpin
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Charles Sidney Gilpin ''rose from obscurity to the peaks, lived his hour of triumph and returned to the shadows,'' Harlem Renaissance theater critic Theophilus Lewis wrote. Gilpin's short-lived triumph was lofty indeed.
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Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950)
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Charles Hamilton Houston was born in Washington, D.C., on September 3, 1895. At the age of 19 he earned his A.B. from Amherst College as one of six valedictorians and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Houston was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
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Charles Howell Jr.
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Charles Conrad Garfield Howell Jr. fought for civil rights and Detroit's place in the cultural world
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Charles Lenox Remond
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Charles Lenox Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1810. He joined the Anti-Slavery Society and in 1838 became its first African-American lecturer.
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Charles W. Chesnutt
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Essayist, folklorist, short-story writer and novelist, Charles Chesnutt was the first African-American writer to receive widespread serious attention during his lifetime as a literary artist, and was considered one of the major fiction writers of his era.
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Civil rights leader Julian Bond addresses NAACP gathering
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Wednesday, May 17, 2000 Subscribe to Daily Headlines Monday, September 28, 1998 Civil rights leader Julian Bond addresses NAACP gathering Justin Jacobs Contributing Writer
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Cleaver, (Leroy) Eldridge
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Cleaver, (Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver (left) and his wife, Kathleen Camera Press/Copyright Archive Photos (b. 1935, Wabbaseka, near Little Rock, Ark., U.S.), black militant whose autobiographical volume..
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Coleman Young - Home Page
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Coleman Alexander Young, 1918-1997, continues his hold over Detroiters, as witnessed by the six articles about him that The Detroit News ran on Sunday, January the 9th, 2000.
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Cornel West
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Format: Hardcover, 112pp. ``The scholar, theologian, and activist who has been acclaimed as one of the most eloquent voices in our ongoing racial debate now bridges the gulf between black and white America in a work of enormous resonance and moral author
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Damon J. Keith Biography
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Judge Damon Keith has carried a love of civil rights through his entire legal career. This devotion was rooted in his experience as an African-American growing up in Detroit.
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Daniel A. P. Murray
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Daniel A. P. Murray Daniel A. P. Murray (1852 -1925). Photographer unknown. Photograph, undated. Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a freed slave. At the age of nine, he moved to Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Charles Drew
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Dr.Charles Drew 1904 - 1950 Look for the "Blue Links" in the text to go to some interesting places mentioned. Discoverer of blood plasma (a vital life giving fluid) and is credited with saving thousands of lives on a day to day basis Founder of our.
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Born: January 18, 1856 Died: August 4, 1931 Birthplace: Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Dr. Daniel Hale Williams: Surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a pioneer in open heart surgery was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania...
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Dr. Geter
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Room: VMH 4312 Telephone: 301-405-2218 Email:rgeter@rhsmith.umd.edu Robert S. Ph.D., Organizational Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Geter has over 18 years of experience as an information systems manager with a large telecommunications firm.
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DR. MANNING MARABLE
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Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and the Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.
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Earl D. Shaw
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the directory page of Earl D. Shaw (telephone number, email address, etc.) Graduate physics faculty Professor, Rutgers/Newark Physics Department I have been developing infrared lasers and recently moved a far-infrared free electron laser to the Newark Cam
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Earl G. Graves
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Earl G. Graves is a nationally recognized authority on black business development and the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine.
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Edward Brooke - (1919- )
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dward Brooke was sworn in as the junior senator from Massachusetts on January 10, 1967, becoming the first black person since Reconstruction Senator Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi to take the oath.
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Edwards, S. J. Celestine - From Slavery To a Bishopric
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Browse an account of Walter Hawkins, a former slave who eventually became a bishop in Canada. Includes images from the original publication.
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Emeagwali
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"Philip Emeagwali, a computer scientist, is one of the fathers of the Internet and a trailblazer in petroleum extraction," reports CNN.
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Emeagwali.Com
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Nigerian American named Philip Emeagwali. He had to leave school because his parents couldn't pay the fees. He lived in a refugee camp during your civil war. He won a scholarship to university and went on to invent a formula that lets computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second
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Ernest E. Just
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Stamp on Black History Home Page Menu.
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Evers, Medgar
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Supplies speech transcripts, audio clips, and excerpts from biographical references of the civil Rights leader. Includes resource links.
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Farmer - James - Black History Month Profile
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Profile furnished by the Gale Group recounts the achievements of the civil right leader and union organizer.
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For the Black Male
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Online community provides research material, news articles, forums, and an index of Web resources, for the empowerment of black males.
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Fred Hampton
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Dedicated to the leader of the Chicago Black Panther Party. Read an account the story of the FBI attack and hear a sound clip from Chairman Fred.
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Frederick Douglass
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Chronicles Douglass' life as a slave, abolitionist, political reformer, and editor.
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Garrison, William Lloyd
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William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879), was an American journalist and reformer who became famous in the 1830's for his denunciations of slavery.
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George Crockett, Jr.
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First African American attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. Also intensely involved in the civil rights struggle in the South during the 1960s.
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George Henry White
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A member of the Republican Party, White was elected to the House of Representatives in 1880.
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George Washington Carver
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George Washington Carver Ultimate Resource Links Top 5% in K-12 Education (78 links) What's New! Accomplishments and Awards Articles, Quotes and Other Writings of George Washington Carver
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Granville T. Woods: Inventor
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Granville T. Woods Born: April 23, 1856 Died: January 30, 1910 Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio Granville T. Woods: Inventor It's hard to believe that a man who was forced to leave school at the age of ten could have patented over thirty-five electrical and mec
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Harry T. Moore Homesite
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The Harry T. Moore Homesite is being developed to commemorate the lives of two pioneering American black civil rights workers. He and Harriette were leading human rights activists in Brevard County, in Florida, and in the nation.
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Henry Highland Garnett
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Led by his father George Garnett, Henry Highland Garnett escaped from Maryland slavery in 1825 to New York. Henry attended the New York African Free school.
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Henry O. Tanner
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Great American Artist/African American Legend Copyright 1991 Tanner Film Group Inc. For More Information on Henry Ossawa Tanner Go to: Tanner Film Group
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Higginbotham, A(loysius) Leon, Jr.
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Born and raised in segregated Trenton, New Jersey, A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. attended Purdue University in Indiana to study engineering.
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Horace Coleman
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holds an MFA degree from Bowling Green State University. In addition to being a former university professor, he has been a writer-in-the schools, worked in public relations, been a technical writer, published in a number of anthologies and lived in six states.
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Hosea Williams
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Williams was elected to Georgia General Council in 1974 and controversially endorsed Ronald Reagan for president in 1980.
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Imam Jamil's Official Website
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Detailed chronology of past and current events relating to Imam Jamil's arrest for murder, as well as information about injustice towards Muslims in America.
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Jan E. Matzeliger
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Jan Matzeliger The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the "shoe capital of the world."
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JOHN CHAVIS
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At a time when few African-Americans were free and almost none were educated, John Chavis occupied a unique place in North Carolina society.
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John Hope Franklin
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John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History in the Law School at Duke University. He is a native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University.
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Johnson, Robert - Biography
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Profiles the founder and chairman whose company is the first African American-owned business listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Jones, Absalom - African American Journey
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World Book encyclopedia presents a brief profile of this 18th century black church leader who founded the St. Thomas African Episcopal Church.
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Jordan, Vernon E. - Black History Month Profile
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Read about the life and achievements of the civil rights leader, lawyer and friend of Bill Clinton.
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Joseph Cinque
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Joseph Cinque Sengbe Pieh, the son of a local chief, was born in Mani, Sierra Leone, in about 1815. He became a rice farmer and was married with three children when he was captured by Spanish...
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Julian Bond
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Julian Bond Professor (1990) U.S. Morehouse 1971 HIUS 367: History of the Civil Rights Movement Publications, Awards, and Activities Time to Speak, A Time To Act The Movement in Politics.
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Keyes, Alan - State and Local Grassroots Campaign
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Find state and local groups that support the GOP candidate's campaign for the US presidency. Includes quotes from Keyes.
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Kwame Ture
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Offers the text of a speech to the All-African People's Revolutionary Party by the activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael.
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder made national history by becoming governor of Virginia, a state where his grandparents had toiled as slaves. His victory in Virginia's 1989 gubernatorial
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Leon Sullivan, The Most Influential Black Man Alive
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Rev. Leon Sullivan lumbered into his old neighborhood in Charleston, W.Va., to speak at Piedmont Elementary School. Dressed in his Sunday best, Sullivan told a gathering of children how he was raised in a shanty, off a dirt alley only a couple of blocks f
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Louis T. Wright
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Dr. Louis T. Wright was born in 1891 at LaGrange, Georgia. He attended Clark University and then Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1915.
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Louis Tompkins Wright 1891-1952
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In 1917, Wright entered the US Army as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. In the service, he introduced the intradermal method of vaccination for small pox that was adopted by the US Army Medical Corps.
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Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D.
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Research Interests: Hormonal carcinogenesis, Breast cancer, Diet and estrogens, Multistage hormonal carcinogenesis esearch in the Endocrinology Laboratory continues to focus on identifying and characterizing the molecular events involved in the initiation
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Major Cox's Perspective
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Major Cox began his journey on the southeast Alabama farm of his birth, in 1940. As a child, growing up surrounded by an extended family of countless relatives, Charles and Juanita Cox made their second son feel special.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Biography, Stats, Videos Of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Max Yergan
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Max Yergen The South African YMCA When African-American Max Yergan went to South Africa in 1921, his mission was to establish African YMCAs throughout the country. Yergan tirelessly criss-crossed the
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Mayor Tom Bradley
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Story posted Wednesday, 30-Sep-98 11:00:51 - Online Athens Tom Bradley, L.A.'s first and only black mayor, dead at 80 By Michael FleemanAssociated Press LOS ANGELES - He took over a city divided.
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Medgar Wiley Evers
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The legacy of Medgar Evers is everywhere present in the Mississippi of today. This peaceful man, who had constantly urged that "violence is not the way" but who paid for his beliefs with his life, was a prominent voice in the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.
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Media Resources-African American Male Research
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As we enter the first years of the new millennium it is especially important to trace the trends of African American male social, economic, and political status in order to move beyond the anecdotal toward gaining a basic understanding of the quality of t
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Meredith C. Gourdine African American Inventor
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Meredith C. Gourdine was the inventor of electrogasdynamics systems
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Mfume, Kweisi
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Find a profile of the former congressman who has gone on to head the NAACP. Includes a photograph and related articles.
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Mfume, Kweisi - NAACP Online
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President's Corner features a biography, statements, press releases, and speeches by the former US congressman from Maryland.
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MLK Web
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Extensive teacher's guide compiles the Internet resources concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. Find articles, multimedia files, and books.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal On Death Row/Political Prisoners/Racism and Oppression
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Mumia Abu-Jamal joined the Black Panther Party in 1967, at the age of 15. He went on to a distinguished career as a radio journalist. An untiring opponent of racism and police brutality, he earned the wrath of the notoriously racist Mayor Rizzo and the Ph
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Nante
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These commands are in Twi. When the Europeans came to Ghana and began the vicious hunt for African slaves, they divided and conquered neighboring tribes who had usually coexisted in peace.
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Nelson Mandela
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The political life of Nelson Mandela.
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Oscar Micheaux
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Welcome to the newly remodeled Oscar Micheaux web site. It's really a complete web site of its own, including over one hundred photos from the Golden Anniversary celebration.
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Paul Robeson
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For his steadfast commitment to his social conscience, Paul Robeson - activist, scholar, artist, athlete - was shunted from the center of America's cultural stage to its wings.
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Percy Lavon Julian
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Friendship Is Essential to the Soul! Percy Lavon Julian Hawthorne school renamed to honor Percy Julian Stamp in Honor of Percy Lavon Julian Education and Work Experience
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Percy Lavon Julian - Chemist
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Percy Julian's life in research often made use of soybean products and led to discoveries in the manufacture of drugs, hormones, vitamins, amino acids, paint and paper, Percy Julian's research also yielded over 100 patents, including a synthetic cortisone
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Profile of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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Mandela accepted the Nobel Peace Prize as an accolade to all people who have worked for peace and stood against racism.
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Rand, Barry - Jet, New Chairman & CEO of Avis
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Brief profile of the African-American leader who left his position as the highest-ranking Black executive at Xerox to take the Avis post.
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Reeves, Bass - Dallas Morning News
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Texas-born Bass Reeves roamed the American West for more than three decades, chasing murderers, thieves and whiskey smugglers. He usually either found his outlaw or left him dead.
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Rev. Leon Sullivan
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Rev. Leon Sullivan, a West Virginia native, is an African American Preacher, social activist, and educator responsible for leading international efforts to promote nonviolent social and economic change.
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Richard Allen and African-American Identity
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Magazine dedicated to colonial America offers an article written by James Henretta about the slave who became a free man and Methodist bishop.
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Richard Henry Boyd
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RICHARD HENRY BOYD (1855-1912) Richard Henry Boyd, preacher, missionary, entrepreneur, publisher, banker, educator. writer, and black nationalist, was born a slave to Indiana Dixon in Noxubee Coun...
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Richard Wright
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Richard Wright was born 4 September 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi, and died 28 November 1960 in Paris, France. One could sum up his life as a series of three stages: his youth in the South, his early career in the North (both Chicago and New York), and his e
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Richard Wright: Black Boy - Chronology
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1908 - Richard Nathaniel Wright born September 4 on Rucker's Plantation, some twenty miles east of Natchez, Mississippi, the first child of Nathaniel Wright, a sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a...
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Robert Abbott
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Robert S. Abbott was born in 1870 in Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia of former slave parents, and studied the printing trade at Hampton Institute from 1892 to 1896.
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Robert R. Moton
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Robert Russa Moton was born in 1867. He learned to read at the William Vaughan Plantation with the help of the daughter of the former owner. As a boy, his family sent him to a free school for Blacks operated by an ex-officer of the Confederate Army. While
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Rodney King Page
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Los Angeles Times Tuesday, March 19, 1991 Page A20 Here is the transcript of computer transmissions between squad cars and the watch commander's office of the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Division beginning at 12:29 a.m. and ending at 1:17 a.m
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Sharif.Org.uk
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Using the Bible, the Qur'an, other early sources from history, as well as Muslim-Christian dialogue and debate material, this website will enable the truth-seeker to decide the truth.
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Smalls, Robert (1839-1915)
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Former slave who became a Union hero for commandeering Planter, a Confederate transport vessel loaded with armaments from Charleston harbor on May 13, 1862.
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Sonarchy: Stokely Carmichael
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Stokely Carmichael speaks on freedom and white America. One-time president of the (SNCC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and early organizer with the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and the Black Panther Party, Carmichael was an...
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SPLC: Julian Bond Biography
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Julian Bond Since his college days, Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace, and an aggressive spokesman for the disinherited.
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Steve Biko Memorial
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Stephen Biko (selection) Biko firmly believed that "black liberation" had to start with "black psychological self-reliance" and that as the consciousness of Africans increased, white liberals could not continue to act as spokesmen for the black population
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Stokely Carmichael
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As Stokely Carmichael, his chief claim to fame was to lead young Turks in the civil-rights movement in pushing Martin Luther King aside, denouncing him as an Uncle Tom. In 1966, Carmichael emerged as the chief spokesman for the "black power" movement, whi
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The 100 Black Men of Los Angeles, Inc.
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The 100 Black Men of Los Angeles, Inc. is a non-profit civic and community based organization that serves as a catalyst for the disadvantaged and under represented segments of the community.
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The Forgotten Teachings of Martin Luther King
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Few Americans, however, are familiar with King's profound teachings on the very issue that is tearing our country apart û affirmative action. Without fear of accountability, politicians distort King's message and invoke his name for their own political ga
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Theodore K. Lawless
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Dr. Theodore K. Lawless was a skin specialist (dermatologist) who became a millionaire form his studies, practice adn development of medicines.
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University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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UMES provides quality undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, the food and agricultural sciences, technology, and in professional and pre-professional disciplines. The University accepts and prepares students from varying backgrounds and experiences.
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Vernon Jordan
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Vernon Jordan
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Walter F. White
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The Fire in the Flint (1924), Flight (1926), The American Negro and His Problems (1927),The Negro's Contribution to American Culture (1927), Rape and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929), What Caused the Detroit Riot? (1943), A Rising Wind: A Report
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WEAVER, Robert Clifton
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WEAVER, Robert Clifton Robert Weaver (1907- ); American economist and government official WEAVER, Robert Clifton (1907-), American economist and government official, born in Washington, D.C., and educated at Harvard University. He began his...
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Welcome to agoodblackman.com
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agoodblackman.com is a web site dedicated to loving, honoring, uplifting and celebrating Black men by providing a place of information and inspiration
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Whitney Moore Young
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1921-71, African-American civil-rights leader; b. Lincoln Ridge, Ky. A social worker by profession, he joined the National Urban League in 1947 as director of industrial relations for St. Paul, Minn. He headed the League from 1961 until his death and was
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William H. Hastie
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William H. Hastie, Jr., born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 17, 1904, graduated Amherst College in 1925 as valedictorian. He later graduated Harvard Law School in 1930 -- number fourteen in his class.
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William Hannibal Thomas, b. 1843
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William Hannibal Thomas was born in Ohio in 1843, the child of free blacks from Virginia. After attending school in Ohio, Thomas was denied entrance to the Union army during the Civil War because of his race.
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William Stanley Braithwaite
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William Stanley Braithwaite of Arlington Heights, Mass., was a poet and the editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse. He also taught at Atlanta University. (Information from the University..
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William Wells Brown, 1815-1884. Narrative of William W. Brown, an Amer...
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Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. By William Wells Brown, 1815-1884
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Woodson, Carter G.
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Woodson , Carter G ., in full CARTER GODWIN WOODSON (b. Dec. 19, 1875, New Canton, Va., U.S.--d. April 3, 1950, Washington, D.C.), American historian who first opened the long-neglected field of black studies to scholars
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