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Thegrandson of a British explorer and the son of a pharmacist, Augustus Freeman “Gus”Hawkins was born in Shreveport, Louisianabut moved with his family to Los Angeles, Californiain 1918.  He earned a degree in economicsfrom the University of California at Los Angeles in 1931 and later
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Why Brown v. Board of Education still matters
In 1951, Oliver Brown, a black father from Topeka, Kansas, became fed up with the inequality of segregation after his 9-year-old daughter, Linda, was denied entry into Topeka’s all-white elementary schools and decided to file a class-action suit against the Board of Education of
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Jones, William B. (1928- )
On July 26, 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated William B. Jones as the United States Ambassador to Haiti. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jones and soon after he took up his post in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Born on May 2, 1928, to Bill and LaVelle Jones in Los Angeles, California, Ambassador Jones grew
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Gaspard, Patrick (1967- )
Patrick Gaspard’s career in politics and diplomacy spans three decades. Gaspard’s work has involved him in politics at the city and national level and has put him in contact with constituencies traditionally associated with the Democratic Party. As of this writing, Gaspard serves as United States
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Uganda: Government Should Rescue People From Poverty
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Bunche, Ralph J. (ca. 1903-1971)
RalphJohnson Bunche, American political scientist, renowned scholar, award winner,and diplomat, was one of the most prominent African Americans of his era.  Bunche was born on August 7, 1903 or 1904(there is some disagreement about the year of his birth) in Detroit, Michigan. His father Fred was
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Lecture 19 | African-American Freedom Struggle (Stanford)
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Chinese Landing still awaiting word from Lawrence on request for halt to mining over coronavirus fears
Despite an appeal to de facto Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence and other authorities to suspend mining in Chinese Landing due to fears over the possible spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Region One community, Toshao Orin Fernandes says there has been no
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Egypt
At the urging of Gen. Sisi, who wields more influence over the country than the interim government, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets on July 26 to show support for the military and to demand that the country confront terrorism. The next day, members of the Muslim Brotherhood
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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the
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McDaniel, Hattie (1895-1952)
Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first black Oscar winner.  She won the award on February 29, 1940, for Best Supporting Actress for her role as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind. McDaniels career began three decades earlier.  She gave her first public performances as a grade school
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Johnson, Francis Hall (1888-1970)
Composer and musician Hall Johnson was born in Athens, Georgia in 1888 to Alice Virginia Sanson Johnson and William Decker Johnson, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His musical talent was apparent from childhood when he studied piano with his older sister, Mary, and taught
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Youth Literature Authors & Editors
This section of the BlackPast.org bibliographies profiles youth literature. Listed below are the works on African American and global African history that are specifically written for children and young adults. The bibliography is a searchable database where information can be sorted and listed
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Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and minister. He was born as Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 to a 16 year high school student named Helen Burns out of wedlock. Jesse’s biological father was their 33 year old neighbor named Noah Louis Robinson who was married to someone
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