Accommodationism
As African Americans fought racial prejudice in the United States following the Civil War, some black leaders proposed a strategy of accommodation. The idea of accommodation called for African ...
Alexander Crummell
(1819–98),black minister of the Episcopal Church in his native U.S., after education at Cambridge and long residence in Liberia. His works include The Future of Africa (1862) and Africa and America ...
Andrew F. Brimmer
(b. 13 September 1926),economist and educator. Some individuals are important because they exemplify the historical past, while others are important because they embody generational change toward ...
Ann Fudge
(b. 23 April 1951), marketing executive.At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, the marketing executive Ann Fudge gained a reputation as a highly ...
Black Family
The television adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots (1976), which traced the history of a black family beginning with its African progenitor, Kunta Kinte, aired to wide public acclaim in the ...
Black Press
The oppressed black communities of the antebellum North produced a variety of published materials. Benjamin Banneker's almanac was one of the earliest black periodicals. In the years preceding the ...
Black Towns
Black women have been the cultural, social, and economic support of black towns in America for centuries. There were Senegalese enclaves in Louisiana in the 1700s. In the late eighteenth ...
Dennis Hightower
(b. 28 October 1941),businessperson, corporate executive, and educator. Dennis Fowler Hightower, the son of Marvin W. Hightower and Anna Virginia Hightower, was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up ...
Earl G. Graves
(b. 9 January 1935),publisher and corporate executive. Earl G. Graves was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, to Earl Goodwin Graves and Winifred Sealy Graves. One ...
Free African Americans Before the Civil War (North)
By 1804 all states in the northern United States had moved to end slavery through gradual emancipation laws, judicial decisions, or the inclusion of the prohibition of slavery in their ...
Free African Americans Before the Civil War (South)
In the decade before the Civil War, there were approximately 500,000 free African Americans in the United States, with the population split nearly equally between the free and slave states. ...
free trade
The flow of goods and services across national frontiers without the interference of laws, tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions. Since World War II, under the auspices of GATT and the World Trade ...
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, commonly known as the Freedman's Bank, was chartered by Congress in March 1865 to be a repository for the personal savings of freed slaves. ...
Gender
It is important to understand gender as different from sexuality. Sexuality concerns physical and biological differences that distinguish males from females. Cultures construct differences in gender. ...
Great Migration, Second
Job opportunities and aspirations for an improved quality of life spurred the massive migration of African Americans to the North and West between the 1940s to the 1970s that became ...
Henry Parks
(b. 29 September 1916; d. 24 April 1989),entrepreneur and civic leader. Henry Green Parks Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His family later moved to Ohio for better economic ...
Judaea
In Christ's time the term normally meant the most southern of the three districts (Galilee, Samaria, and Judaea) into which Palestine, west of the Jordan, was divided, but it could be used in a wider ...
Mafjar, Wadi El-
In a series of waterfalls west of Jericho, Wadi el-Mafjar spills into the Jericho plain. During the Hasmonean era, the Fortress of Duk or the Fortress of Dagon was built ...
Maryland
Latinos and Latinas constitute a relatively small but rapidly growing percentage of the total population of Maryland. The 2000 census figures list the Latino and Latina population of the state ...
Michigan
In 1932, when Diego Rivera arrived in Detroit to begin painting his now famous mural at the behest of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the eastern “thumb” region of ...
