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European Exploration of Africa
Europeans have been interested in African geography since the time of the Greek and Roman Empires.  Around 150 C.E., Ptolemy created a map of the world that included the Nile and the great lakes of East Africa.  In the Middle Ages, the large Ottoman Empire blocked European access to Africa and its
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South africa
Current government officials
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Askia Muhammad Toure
Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), established the Askia dynasty of
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Evelyn Ashford wins a gold medal in the 100-meter
Evelyn Ashford wins a gold medal in the 100-meter race and Edwin Moses wins a gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles in the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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Aug
5
1984
Flo-Jo dies
Sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner, winner of 3 gold and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics, dies. She was 38.
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Sep
22
1998
The Texas Western Miners (1966)
The 1966 championship game for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament came down to a test between a small southwestern institution, El Paso’s Texas Western College Miners, and an accomplished four-time NCAA tournament winner, the University of Kentucky
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David Robinson
David Robinson is a retired professional basketball player who is colloquially known as ‘The Admiral’ thanks to his prior service to the United States
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Aug
6
1965
Mapungubwe - African Iron Age Polity in South Africa
Mapungubwe is an African Middle to Later Iron Age site (AD 900-1300), located in the Mapungubwe National Park, in the Shashe-Limpopo river basin, Limpopo province of South Africa, adjacent to both Zimbabwe and Botswana. A stratified population is in evidence at the site, with elites residing at the
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Leidesdorff, William Alexander (1810-1848)
Although little remembered today, Leidesdorff was a social, economic and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco, California with a number of “firsts” credited to his name. When he was named the U.S. Vice Consul to Mexico in 1845, he became the nation’s first African American
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Alice Coachman
Alice Coachman, becomes the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the high jump during the Summer Games in London
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Aug
7
1948
Haiti
National name: République dHaïti
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Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph was an African American Olympic Athlete who competed in the Olympic Games of 1956 and 1960. She was also the first American Woman to win three gold medals in track and field events during a single Olympic
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Nov
12
1994
Wyomia Tyus becomes the first person to win a gold medal in the 100 meter race i
Wyomia Tyus becomes the first person to win a gold medal in the 100 meter race in two consecutive Olympic games.
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Oct
15
1968
Flowers, Vonetta (1973- )
The first person of African descent, male or female, to wina gold medal at the Winter Olympics was Vonetta Flowers when she won gold inthe womens bobsled event in 2002 at SaltLake
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Africans and African Americans in China: A Long History, A Troubled Present, and a Promising Future?
Africa and China have hadcontact for more than a thousand years. Some scholars assert that the contactsbegan as early as 4th century A.D. but convincing evidence issporadic or lacking. Beginning with the Tang dynasty (618 A.D. to 907 A.D.)documented evidence of contact and trade exists showing
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Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Berlin Olympics, 1936
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Berlin Olympics, 1936
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Aug
9
1936
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - Former President of South Africa
Date of birth: 18 July
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Conna, John N. (1836-1921)
John Newington Conna was a pivotal figure in the early history and development of Washington State. Born enslaved near San Augustine, Texas in 1836, Conna was a free man by the time of the Civil War because he served in the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, an all-black Union Regiment between 1863 and
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(1897) Mary Church Terrell, “In Union There is Strength,”
Born in Memphis in 1863 and an activist until her death in 1954, Mary Eliza Church Terrell has been called a living link between the era of the Emancipation Proclamation and the modern civil rights movement.  Terrell was particularly active in the Washington, D.C. area.  From 1895 to 1911, for
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Sep
15
1897
Uganda
Republic of Uganda
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"Smoking Joe" Frazier born
Former heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Smoking Joe Frazier was born in Beaufort, South Carolina. Frazier was a 1964 Olympic gold medalist who won the heavyweight championship in 1968.
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Jan
12
1944
The African Union Organization
The African Union is one of the worlds most important intergovernmental organizations. It is composed of 53 countries in Africa and is loosely based on the European Union. These African countries work diplomatically with each other despite differences in geography, history, race, language, and
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2011
Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers became the first black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. She and partner Jill Brakken won the inagural womens two-person bobsled event.
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19
2002
(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
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Award-Winning Literary and Scholarly Works by African Americans (to 2013)
The following is a list of major awards won by African Americans for literary, journalistic, and scholarly writing compiled by San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes, Jr.  The list includes all awards earned by these writers for fiction and non fiction.  Links to specific prizes appear
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Usher
American singer Usher is a teen sensation turned R&B icon who has several bestselling albums, numerous awards and his own recording label. He was born Usher Terry Raymond IV on October 14, 1978 in Tennessee. His father abandoned the family when Usher was only a year old. As a child, he
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Antioch Baptist Church, San Jose, California (1893- )
Organized on August 2, 1893 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hawkins, Antioch Baptist Church was the first African American Baptist church in San Jose, California. Rev. C.C. Laws was called as the first pastor, requesting a salary of $10.00 a month with board, with the provision that as the church
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Chad
National name: République du Tchad
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Brazil
National name: República Federativa do Brasil
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Pacific Bound: California’s 1852 Fugitive Slave Law
In 1852, California legislators passed a harsh fugitive slave law that condemned dozens of African American migrants to deportation and lifelong slavery. Historian Stacey L. Smith examines the legal travails of three accused fugitive slaves to illuminate the social relations of slavery in gold rush
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