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 African American [Definition]
African Americans are frequently the targets of racial profilingRacial profiling is the use of race as a consideration in suspect profiling or other law enforcement practices.
African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or simply blacks, are an ethnic group in the United States of AmericaThe United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., US, America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia, is a federal republic of fifty states, mostly in central North America.
Native Americans often took in runaway bondsmen and women and accepted them as members of their tribes, and there is a lengthy history of peaceful coexistence, intermarriage and fighting alliances against whites between Native Americans and African Americans.
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 Charles Lenox Remond. Who is Charles Lenox Remond? What is Charles Lenox Remond? Where is Charles Lenox Remond? Definition of Charles Lenox Remond. Meaning of Charles Lenox Remond.
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1882) was an African-American abolitionist who was born free in Salem, Massachusetts.
As a delagate from the American Anti-Slavery Society he went with William Lloyd Garrison to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.
He was an anti-slavery orator who spoke at public meetings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania.
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 Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (1820 - March 10, 1913), also known as Black Moses, was an African-American abolitionist and resistance movement leader best known for her participation in the Underground Railroad, in particular her dangerous pre-American Civil War expeditions into slave holding states which brought hundreds of slaves to freedom without fail.
During the American Civil War, in addition to working as a cook and a nurse, she served as a spy for the North, and again was never captured.
On her way she was assisted by sympathetic Quakers, members of the Abolitionist movement who were instrumental in maintaining the Underground Railroad.
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 Frances Harper. Who is Frances Harper? What is Frances Harper? Where is Frances Harper? Definition of Frances Harper. Meaning of Frances Harper.
Frances Harper (24 September,1825-22 February, 1911) born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland, was an African-American abolitionist and poet.
In addition, Harper was a member of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Three years later in 1853, she joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and became a travelling lecturer for the group.
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 List of African-American-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of U.S. cities with African American majority populations
This is an alphabetical list of African-American-related topics:
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Soon he was delivering runaway slaves to the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for transportation on the Underground Railroad to northern U.S. cities or to Canada.
He began his career freeing slaves in 1837 when, piloting a lumber raft down the Ohio River, he ferried a slave across the river to free territory.
Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 - October 12, 1898) was an abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.
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 Online dictionary - Category:African-American history
History of African Americans in the Civil War
Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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In Boston, Walker made acquaintances with black rights activists and was involved with the Freedom's Journal of New York City, which was the first African American newspaper.
Probably the first printed assertion of black nationalism in the United States, the tract was condemned by many as extremist and even denounced by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
Cover of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
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 List Names Of African Poets
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this poetry archive using key words, names or phrases, or go to the list of poets and poems and scan the list.
Palms, as well as a catalog list of his book titles and...
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 Underground Railroad
See also: Harriet Tubman, Levi Coffin, List of African-American abolitionists
This was an important population increase to the still underpopulated Canadian colonies and these settlers formed the basis of the Black population throughout Ontario.
For underground railroads and railways in the general sense (subways, metros), see metro.
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 African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
Before the 70's ended, the African American visual artists had acquired a full range of mixed lessons coming from their environmental encounters and their experimentation with free expressions.
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Providence, New York, Hartford, and New Orleans were among the growing places where African-Americans could receive training -- but within the limits of what was acceptable as worthy of distinction in a market dominated by European influences.
African American artists were not included in this presentation, and they later pressured the MUSEUM to allow them to do a showing.
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 African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress - Bibliographies & Guides - Local History & Genealogy Reading Room (Library of Congress)
African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress
This filled the need for a bibliography of published sources that was sufficiently broad to encompass African-American family histories, genealogical handbooks, genealogical organizations, newspaper collections, biographical indexes, and catalogs.
The 183 English-language books in the following guide were cataloged during the period 1973- 1997, and cover topics ranging from abolitionists, American Loyalists, and revolutionaries to masters and slaves, freedmen, Civil War soldiers, and Cherokee Indians.
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 AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES
This is a selected list of specialized reference resources that are useful for beginning research in African American studies.
Coverage for the periodical index is 1989 to the present; African American core scholarly journals and important leisure publications are the focus of the index.
For example, the "back-to-Africa" movement represented by the American Colonization Society is vigorously opposed by abolitionists, and the movement of blacks to the North is documented by the writers and artists who participated in federal projects of the 1930s.
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 AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES
This is a selected list of specialized reference resources that are useful for beginning research in African American studies.
For example, the "back-to-Africa" movement represented by the American Colonization Society is vigorously opposed by abolitionists, and the movement of blacks to the North is documented by the writers and artists who participated in federal projects of the 1930s.
Coverage for the periodical index is 1989 to the present; African American core scholarly journals and important leisure publications are the focus of the index.
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 Social studies, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 -- American Memory contains 1,300 pieces of sheet music including songs from antebellum blackface minstrelsy, the abolitionist movement, the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, African-American soldiers in the Civil War, emancipated slaves, Reconstruction, and the northern migration of African Americans.
African-American Mosaic --Exhibition is a guide for studying black history and culture.
Topics include colonization and Liberia, abolitionists and slavery, western migration and homesteading, Chicago, and ex-slave narratives.
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 Social studies, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
After Reconstruction: Studying the Problems of African-Americans in the South -- Lesson, Learning Page encourages students to identify problems facing African Americans immediately after Reconstruction.
African-American Mosaic --Exhibition is a guide for studying black history and culture.
Topics include colonization and Liberia, abolitionists and slavery, western migration and homesteading, Chicago, and ex-slave narratives.
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 African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
The art world of this period was narrow, and African-American artists had to compete for recognition and earnings from pieces of art requested by their commissioners or patrons.
Many of these white patrons were among the abolitionists of this period in American history.
This period in American history was extremely uplifting to African-Americans as a people.
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 Underground Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists.
Churches and religious denominations played key roles, especially the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Congregationalists, and Wesleyans, as well as breakaway sects of mainstream denominations such as branches of the Methodist church and American Baptists.
The Underground Railroad was a major cause of friction between the North and South.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underground_Railroad   (1570 words)

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