Absalom Jones
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...
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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Frederick Douglass Patterson
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Frederick Douglass Patterson, renowned educator and founder of the United Negro College Fund, was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1901. He was orphaned...
Executive Order 9981, Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
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Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces. WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed...
The National Urban League
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The National Urban League (NUL) was formed on October 11, 1910, to help African American migrants assimilate into urban life. The NUL began with the...
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...