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  2. Timeline of African-American firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African-American full-time faculty member at a predominantly white law school: William Robert Ming (University of Chicago Law School) [37] First African-American female member of the U.S. House and Senate press galleries: Alice Allison Dunnigan (See also: 1948)

  3. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Nadir of American race relations - Wikipedia

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    The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.

  5. Black Renaissance in D.C. - Wikipedia

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    Before the start of the Harlem Renaissance, Washington, D.C. developed an educated and prosperous Black middle class, made up of Black intellectuals and scholars who often studied at Howard University. Washington, D.C. had the country's largest Black community from 1900 to 1920, heavily influencing the development of the Black Renaissance in ...

  6. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    The American Revolutionary War, which saw the Thirteen Colonies become independent and transform into the United States, led to great social upheavals for African Americans; Black soldiers fought on both the British and the American sides, and after the conflict ended the Northern United States gradually abolished slavery.

  7. Before 1619: The secret history of the first African Americans

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    When Garrido died in 1550, other Africans, free and enslaved, had already made their mark on this new world. In 1521, a few months after Ponce de Leon died from thigh meat poisoning, Lucas ...

  8. African American founding fathers of the United States

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    The African American founding fathers of the United States are the African Americans who worked to include the equality of all races as a fundamental principle of the United States. Beginning in the abolition movement of the 19th century, they worked for the abolition of slavery, and also for the abolition of second class status for free blacks.

  9. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism .