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In the In the following account, Professor Allison Blakely of BostonUniversity describes the presence of blacks in Early Modern Europe. Hisarticle reminds us that persons of African ancestry resided acrossEurope. Their numbers ranged from a few hundred scattered acrossGermany, Scandinavia and

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Founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nations largest and strongest civil rights

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The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. The Haitian Revolution, however, was

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Touissant L'Ouverture, born

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20

1743

Wanda L. Nesbitt (1956-- )

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Bernicat, Marcia Stephens Bloom (1957- )

Born in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in 1957, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Thinking she might teach overseas, Bernicat earned a teaching credential in social sciences at the secondary level. Rather than

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Central african republic

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North African History

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Libya stretches along the northeast coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. It is one-sixth larger than Alaska. Much of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland is arable

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Porto-Novo, Benin (16th Century- )

Porto-Novo, meaning “New Port” in Portuguese, became the official capital of the West African country of Benin in 1960. In 2002 it had an estimated population of 223,552 people. Porto-Novo is located in the southeastern part of the country on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea. Although it

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Boateng, Paul Yaw (1951- )

Born to a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother in Hackney, London, Paul Yaw Boateng became one of the first black British Members of Parliament in the general election of 1987. In 2002 he became the first Afro-Briton to serve in the Prime Ministers Cabinet. The family moved to Ghana when Boateng

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John Carlos and Tommie Smith staged Black Power

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1968

Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) (1986- )

Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), founded in 1986 in New York City, is one of the oldest organizations working toward the welfare of black gay men in the United States. They began offering services for persons with AIDS toward the beginning of the US pandemic which started in

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Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007)

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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru

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Gadsden, James I. (1948- )

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1948

Race and Color in A California Coastal Community: The Seaside Story

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Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope

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May

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1954

Baraka, Amiri amērē bərä´kə [key], 1934–2014, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as Everett LeRoy Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard Univ. In college he adopted the name LeRoi Jones. In the 1950s he moved to Greenwich Village, where he associated with writers

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The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945

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(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”

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Ferguson, Clarence Clyde, Jr. (1924-1983)

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The French And Indian War

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Watson, Diane Edith (1933- )

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Lewis, Henry Jay (1932-1996)

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Georgetown, Guyana (1781- )

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