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African American family in Alabama. Black slaves arrived in present-day Alabama during the late 18th and early 19th century in the Mississippi Territory. At the time of the 1800 Census there were 517 black people in the Alabama portion of the Mississippi Territory, with 494 slaves and 23 free blacks.
Joe Minter (born March 28, 1943) is an African American sculptor based in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] [2] His African Village in America, on the southwest edge of Birmingham, is an ever-evolving art environment populated by sculptures he makes from scrap metal and found materials; [3] its theme is recognition of African American history from the first arrivals of captured Africans to the present. [4]
In 1992 the Mobile City Council leased the building to a community group that founded the National African American Archives and Multicultural Museum. Delores S. Dees was the organization's first president and executive director. Its exhibits interpreted the history of African Americans in the city and state, and in the United States. [2]
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960 ...
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama, that displays the history of slavery and racism in America. This includes the enslavement of African-Americans, racial lynchings, segregation, and racial bias.
Pages in category "African-American history of Alabama" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. ... Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama
46 of Alabama's 80 majority-African American municipalities (57.5%) are located within the Black Belt. As of the 2000 census, [6] Alabama's 18-county Black Belt region had a population of 589,041 (13.25% of the state's total population). There were 226,191 households and 153,357 families residing within the region.
A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.