Portal:African American/African American topics

• African American

• 16th century -
  

• 17th Century - Anthony Johnson (American Colonial) . Isabella, Antoney and Pedro . William Tucker . John Punch . Jan Rodrigues

• 18th Century - Gabriel (rebel) . Crispus Attucks . Ayuba Suleiman Diallo . Phillis Wheatley . Toussaint L'Ouverture . James Somerset . Venture Smith . Peter Salem . William Lee (valet) . Sally Hemings . Prince Hall . Amos Fortune (Citizen of Jaffrey) . Olaudah Equiano . Benjamin Banneker . Jupiter Hammon . Lemuel Haynes . Joshua Johnson . John Julian . John Chavis . Colonel Tye . Prince Whipple . Mammy Kate
  

• 19th Century - Nat Turner . Frederick Douglass . Denmark Vesey . Richard Allen (reverend) . Dred Scott . Ida B. Wells . Harriet Ann Jacobs . Archer Alexander . Polly Berry . Benjamin Bradley (inventor) . John Brown (fugitive slave) . Anthony Burns . Lott Cary . A.E. "Fred" Coleman . Ellen Craft . Lucy Delaney . Charles Deslandes . Elizabeth Greenfield . Jeremiah Haralson . John Edward Bruce . Lewis Hayden . Jefferson F. Long . Ben Montgomery . Isaiah Montgomery . America Newton . Benjamin "Pap" Singleton . Robert Smalls . Benjamin S. Turner . York (Lewis and Clark) . Harriet E. Wilson . Harriet Tubman . Pierre Toussaint . Moses Roper . Sally Miller . Biddy Mason . Anna Kingsley . Joice Heth . Madison Hemings . Nelson Hackett . Gullah Jack . Joshua Glover . Margaret Garner . Free Frank McWorter . John Dunjee . Nelson Davis . Joseph Cinqué . James Forten . Martin Delany . Rebecca Lee Crumpler . Alexander Crummell . Samuel Cornish . Fanny Jackson Coppin . A. E. Coleman . Louis Chauvin . William Harvey Carney
  

• 20th Century & 21st Century - Marcus Garvey . Emmett Till . Juanita Craft . Tiequon Cox . Ida Cox . Otelia Cromwell . Dolores Cross . Ella Baker . Avery Alexander . Ralph Abernathy . Fannie Lou Hamer . Alisha Davis . Sophia Danenberg . Walter Mosley . Alice Walker . Colin Powell . Oprah Winfrey . Jeffrey Daniels (author) . Teddy Darby . Condoleezza Rice . W.E.B. DuBois . Maya Angelou . Martin Luther King, Jr. . Langston Hughes . Zora Neale Hurston . Mumia Abu-Jamal . Kuwasi Balagoon . Charles Barron . Elaine Brown . H. Rap Brown . Stokely Carmichael . Bunchy Carter . Rebecca Walker . Mark Clark (Black Panther) . Eldridge Cleaver . Angela Davis . Aaron Dixon . Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin . Fred Hampton . Bobby Hutton . Daniel Igali . George Jackson (Black Panther) . Huey P. Newton . Pete O'Neal . Geronimo Pratt . Malik Rahim . Bobby Seale . Afeni Shakur . Assata Shakur . Tupac Shakur . Russell Shoatz . Robert Trivers . Betty Van Patter . Michael Zinzun . Huey P. Newton . Bill Cosby . Ashanti Alston . Danny Glover . Bobby Rush . Elijah Muhammad . Malcolm X . Jesse Jackson . Al Sharpton . Rosa Parks . Muhammad Ali . Louis Farrakhan . Betty Shabazz . Debbie Allen . Spike Lee . Barack Obama . Alex Haley . LeVar Burton . Quincy Jones . Margaret Walker . Bessie Delany . Beauford Delaney . Joseph DeLaine . Roy DeCarava . Bobby Day . Kimya Dawson . Ossie Davis . Miles Henry Davis . Henrietta Vinton Davis . Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. . Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. . Mark Curry (rapper) . Mukasa Dada . Elbert Frank Cox . Don Cornelius . Anna Julia Cooper . Marvel Cooke . Will Marion Cook . James Hal Cone . James Compton . Claudette Colvin . Leon Collins . Janet Collins . Holt Collier . Bessie Coleman . Tom Colbert . Donnie Cochran . Call Cobbs, Jr. . Suzette Charles . Karla Cheatham-Mosley . Alvin V. Cheeks . Jacob Chestnut . Spencer Christian . Dorothea Church . Clarence 13X . Joe Louis Clark . Mystro Clark . Septima Poinsette Clark . John Henrik Clarke . Claudia Jones . Xernona Clayton . Dorothy Love Coates . Ned Cobb . James Chaney . Ernie Chambers . Elizabeth Catlett . Robert L. Carter . Betty Carter . Ben Ammi . Ben Carson . George Carruthers . Diahann Carroll . James Cameron (civil-rights activist) . Sway Calloway . Charles Caldwell (bluesman)

[edit] Historical Events

• Atlantic slave trade . Exodusters . American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) . Underground Railroad . Emancipation Proclamation . Oberlin-Wellington Rescue . Dred Scott v. Sandford . Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 . Juneteenth . Atlanta Race Riot . Bolling v. Sharpe . Briggs v. Elliott . Civil Rights Act of 1866 . Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Civil Rights Act of 1875 . Compromise of 1850 . Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education . Murder Of Emmett Till . Executive Order 8802 . Executive Order 9981 . Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 . Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 . Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States . History of Marshall, Texas . Hawk's Nest incident . Great Migration (African American) . McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents . Milliken v. Bradley . Missouri Compromise . Million Man March . Millions More Movement . New York Revolt of 1792 . Pacific Movement of the Eastern World . Powell v. Alabama . African Americans at Siege of Petersburg

[edit] African American Organizations

• Links Incorporated . Nation Of Islam . ASALH . SCLC . UNIA-ACL . NAACP . UNCF . NPHC . NUL . Negro League (baseball) . Black Panther Party

[edit] Academics

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. . Cornel West . Patricia Hill Collins . Marva Collins . John Hope Franklin . Bell Hooks . Shelby Steele .

[edit] Languages & Dialects

• AAVE . Gullah . Creole