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Religion

Absalom Jones

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Absalom Jones was an important figure in African-American history and a prominent religious leader. He is known for his contributions to the African Methodist Episcopal...
Religion

Richard Allen

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Richard Allen (1760–1831) was a prominent African American religious leader, abolitionist, and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. He is considered one of...
History

Henry Brown

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Henry Brown, born into slavery in Virginia around 1815, toiled on a tobacco plantation under the brutal weight of bondage. His life, already marked by...
History

The Amistad Slave Rebellion

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From the 16th to the 19th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were forcibly shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Of those,...
HistoryPolitics

Barack Obama

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On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the...
History

The Tuskegee Airmen

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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American military pilots who served in the United States Army Air Corps (later the United States Army Air...
Civil Rights

Vernon Eulion Jordan

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Vernon Eulion Jordan, civil rights leader, lawyer, and presidential advisor was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 15, 1935.  Growing up in the segregated American...