African American History

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The history of African American stereotypes by James Harvey Mammy. Coon. Sambo. Picanniny. Jezebel. Sapphire. Hootchie. Thug. These are just some of the negative racial stereotypical labels or caricatures that have been peculiarly ascribed to African Americans in America spanning over a period of many years.... More> Should African-American history be taught in schools? by Can Tran Having learned American History through middle school and high school, I have seen it as very incomplete. A few years after graduating from high school, I took up a job as a substitute teacher for almost two years. I had taught a wide variety of sub... More>
	African-American history: Remembering heritage, not hate by Tmari In the early 1800s, Africans from West Africa were forced to leave their homeland. My descendants came to the United States of America transported by slave ships. African immigrants were subjected to sorrow, grief, and humiliation. Many Africans die... More> The history of African-American folk music by S. james-T Ward African-American Folk Music; At first thought when mentioning the phrase African-American music one may be quickly ushered toward times of deep spiritual hymns rising in collective harmony from men, woman and often children against the bleak, sullen... More>
Important women in African-American history by Jerrie Lynn South-DeRose Important Women in African-American History: Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet, author, lecturer, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Illinois Poet Laureate When I was taking college coursework in Creative Writing for my minor, in 1988, one of the first required classes... More> The African American blacksmith who changed the history of whaling by Pam Uher He was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1800. When this African American man obtained his freedom from the plantation, he moved north to New Bedford, Massachusetts. The newly freed man worked diligently as a blacksmith on the waterfro... More>
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