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  2. African-American names - Wikipedia

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    They favor an explanatory model which attributes a change in black perceptions of their identity to the black power movement. The most common and typical female slave names in America included Bet, Mary, Jane, Hanna, Betty, Sarah, Phillis, Nan, Peg, and Sary. Private names were Abah, Bilah, Comba, Dibb, Juba, Kauchee, Mima, and Sena.

  3. Lists of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.

  4. 100 Greatest African Americans - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-1573929639. 100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley. First published in 1992, Salley's book is ...

  5. Category:African-American given names - Wikipedia

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    Tanisha (name) Trayvon. Tyrone (name) Categories: African-American culture. African-American English. North American given names.

  6. List of African-American actors - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of African-American actors by alphabetical order. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African American and a notable actor.

  7. List of African-American activists - Wikipedia

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    Marion Barry, civil rights activist, politician. Daisy Bates, civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, lecturer. Carl Bean, AIDS/HIV and LGBT activist and minister. Arekia Bennett, voting rights activist. Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist, educator. James Bevel, minister, leader of the civil rights movement.

  8. List of African-American United States representatives

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    The United States House of Representatives has had 157 elected African-American members, of whom 151 have been representatives from U.S. states and 6 have been delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. [1] The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch ...

  9. List of African-American visual artists - Wikipedia

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    Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...