
	Where results make sense

Topic: African American Abolitionists

Related Topics

John Brown abolitionist

Abolitionist Party of Canada

Abolitionist society

List of African American abolitionists

abolitionist movement

African American Abolitionists

Abolitionist Party

1976 African Nations Cup

South African Air Force

The African Queen

African Union

North African Campaign

In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Lincoln/Net: African-American Experience and American Racial Attitudes
		In 1818 the majority of the state's white population hailed from the American South, and a significant number of them held slaves.
		American popular song, which took shape on the stage of touring minstrel shows and in popular songbooks aimed at the singalong audience, revealed white Americans' fascination with fl music.
		In the face of abolitionist pressure and the organization of the new Republican Party, President James Buchanan and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger Taney moved to resolve the questions of race and slavery in America in the years before the Civil War.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /africanamerican.html (1651 words)

	African American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty
		American history, at its best, is filled with records of the early colonial settlers searching for a place where the principles of freedom could be expressed and practiced.
		During the American Civil War, Douglass was a forceful leader and "urged Lincoln to free the slaves and arm all Negro men." Douglass' own two sons were among the first to serve the Union forces in the Civil War.
		African Americans decidedly chose to serve the causes of America, even though educational, employment, and housing opportunities were not widespread in 1965.
	www.cwpost.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaffsfl.htm (10716 words)

	African American Inventors - woman famous scientists black pictures female biography inventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scholars are beginning to recognize that exploring African American contributions to the nation's technology base also means exploring early African American social status as active participants in the making of American society.
		The work of historians, archaeologists and anthropologists has been critical in explaining how objects were made and used by African Americans and how their skills were acquired 'and passed on.
		The issue of recognition became critically important as abolitionists, free Blacks and others argued in the 19th century that Black contributions in technology bolstered the case for African American freedom and full citizenship.
	africanamericanscientists.us (1826 words)

	African-American Literature
		In fact, some of the most risky work these days is being written not only by African Americans, but Americans of Dominican, Jamaican, and Haitian descent.
		Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God came out in the 30s, and Dorothy West published The Living is Easy, a novel detailing an upper-class fl family during World War I. The Renaissance paved the way for fl writers in subsequent decades.
		African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
	www.infoplease.com /spot/bhmlit1.html (1001 words)

	African-American Books, Black History Month at Embracing The Child
		African American folk hero who becomes as awesome as a natural phenomenon yet as familiar and strong as an older brother.
		American students of any color should be able to attend any school." For the Carters, it would be the fight of their lives.This is a true story of faith, courage, and honor: qualities Americans of any color can learn from the Carters.
		African Slavery in America - written in 1774 by Thomas Paine and published March 8, 1775 when it appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser.
	www.embracingthechild.org /africanamerican.htm (8105 words)

	African American Women's Studies - Compiled by Gerri Gribi
		The site features the three story Victorian town house which was her home when she was in Washington, DC and housed the offices of the National Council of Negro Women and a carriage house in which the National Archives for Black Women's History is located.
		Anyone who teaches American History or African American Studies cannot afford to be without this CD, and anyone who loves aural history will want it in their collection.
		She was a neoromanticist who drew freely on African American folk idioms and fortunately, through work by those such as The Women's Philharmonic, she is being restored to her rightful "place among those important composers of the 1930's and 1940's who helped define America's voice in music."
	www.creativefolk.com /blackhistory/blackwomen.html (4479 words)

	American Women's History: African-American Women
		African American Studies and Black History Materials in Special Collections [online].
		Washington, DC: Anacostia Musuem and Center for African American History and Culture, 2002.
		In the "Scholars" section, historians discuss the importance of various artifacts (e.g., travel maps for African Americans, quilts made by African-American men).
	www.mtsu.edu /~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-afam.html (1268 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)