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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.
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]
African-American people in Alabama politics (3 C, 8 P) Alabama A&M University (3 C, 3 P) ... Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama; Alabama Penny Savings Bank;
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.
In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans owned an estimated 16 million acres of land, but by the turn of the century, 90% of that had been lost or stolen, amounting to a near $326 ...
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.
Black people make up around 27% of Alabama's population. ... It was there in 1965 where hundreds of Black people marching in a voting rights demonstration crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were ...