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African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Formerly enslaved Spaniards who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [ 1 ]
This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [350] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 351 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
African Americans also have higher prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease compared to the overall average. [201] [202] African-Americans are more likely than White Americans to die due to health-related problems developed by alcoholism. Alcohol abuse is the main contributor to the top 3 causes of death among African Americans. [203]
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in 1773. Born in the Gambia and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston ...
The 1619 Project is not “critical race theory.” Not only is it a reach to equate Nikole Hannah-Jones’ award-winning journalism The post Before 1619: The secret history of the first African ...