Portal:African American/African American topics
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[edit] General
[edit] Academics
- HBCUs • Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund • UNCF
- Personalities - Joe Louis Clark • Marva Collins • Patricia Hill Collins • Anna Julia Cooper • Elbert Frank Cox • Otelia Cromwell • Dolores Cross • John Hope Franklin • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. • Bell Hooks • Shelby Steele • Cornel West
- Categories - academics
[edit] Arts
- Personalities - Elizabeth Catlett • Roy DeCarava • Beauford Delaney
- Categories - artists
[edit] Civil rights and political movements
- Black Panther Party • SCLC • NAACP
- Personalities - Ralph Abernathy • Avery Alexander • Ashanti Alston • Ella Baker • Kuwasi Balagoon • Xernona Clayton Brady • Elaine Brown • H. Rap Brown • Bunchy Carter • James Cameron • Stokely Carmichael • Robert L. Carter • Ernie Chambers • James Chaney • Mark Clark • Septima Poinsette Clark • John Henrik Clarke • Eldridge Cleaver • Claudette Colvin • Juanita Craft • Angela Davis • Joseph DeLaine • Aaron Dixon • W.E.B. DuBois • Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin • Marcus Garvey • Ralph Mark Gilbert • George Jackson • Jesse Jackson • Claudia Jones • Martin Luther King, Jr. • W. W. Law • Huey P. Newton • Rosa Parks • Betty Van Patter • Geronimo Pratt • Malik Rahim • Bobby Rush • Bobby Seale • Betty Shabazz • Assata Shakur • Al Sharpton • Earl Shinhoster • Russell Shoatz • Emmett Till • Rebecca Walker • Malcolm X • Michael Zinzun • Hugo Chavez
- Categories - African Americans' rights activists • School desegregation pioneers
[edit] Government and political service
- Congressmen and Congresswomen • Congressional Black Caucus • jurists • officeholders during Reconstruction
- Personalities - Charles Barron • Tom Colbert • Fannie Lou Hamer • Barack Obama • Colin Powell • Joseph Rainey • Condoleezza Rice
- Categories - politicians • governors • Senators • Congressmen and Congresswomen
[edit] Languages & Dialects
[edit] Entertainment
- Literature and writings
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- writers • nonfiction writers
- Personalities - Maya Angelou • Ned Cobb • Jeffrey Daniels • Alex Haley • Langston Hughes • Zora Neale Hurston • Walter Mosley • Alice Walker • Margaret Walker
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- Categories - writers • non-fiction writers • novelists • poets
- Movies and film
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- Blaxploitation • List of blaxploitation films
- Personalities - Halle Berry • Don Cheadle • Ossie Davis • Ruby Dee • Danny Glover • Samuel L. Jackson • Queen Latifah • Spike Lee • Hattie McDaniel • Ving Rhames • John Singleton • Wesley Snipes
- Titles - Men of Honor • The Gospel • Proud • The Tuskegee Airmen • Jungle Fever • School Daze • Do the Right Thing • Strictly Business • Juice • Losing Isaiah • A Time To Kill • Rosewood • Boyz N the Hood • Poetic Justice • Higher Learning • Shaft • Baby Boy
- Categories - African-American films • African American films • Blaxploitation films • Film directors
- Music
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- Blues • Funk • Gospel • Hip hop • Jazz • Quiet storm • R&B • Soul
- Personalities - Yolanda Adams • Charles Caldwell • Betty Carter • Dorothy Love Coates • Call Cobbs, Jr. • Will Marion Cook • Don Cornelius • Ida Cox • Mark Curry • Miles Henry Davis • Teddy Darby • Kimya Dawson • Bobby Day • Kirk Franklin • Fred Hammond • The Jackson 5 • Quincy Jones • Tupac Shakur • Stevie Wonder
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- Categories - musicians • singers • classical composers • songwriters • singer-songwriters • rappers
- Newspaper and magazine
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- Black Enterprise • Ebony magazine
- Personalities - Marvel Cooke • Earl Graves
- Radio and broadcast
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- Radio One • Inner City Broadcasting
- Programs -
- Personalities - Yolanda Adams • Michael Baisden • Doug Banks • Steve Harvey • Tom Joyner • Russ Parr • Keith Sweat
- Sports and Athletics
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- College football classics • Negro league baseball
- Personalities - Muhammad Ali
- Events - Bayou Classic • Circle City Classic • Delta Classic • The Rumble in the Jungle • Pioneer Bowl
- Categories - sportspeople • baseball players • Negro League players
- Television and video
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- BET • BET Gospel • BET Hip-Hop • BET J • TV One • Word Network
- Programs -
- Personalities - Debbie Allen • LeVar Burton • Sway Calloway • Diahann Carroll • Karla Cheatham-Mosley • Spencer Christian • Mystro Clark • Bill Cosby • Alisha Davis • Oprah Winfrey
- Theater and Performing arts
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- Blackface
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- Personalities - Janet Collins • Leon Collins • Henrietta Vinton Davis
- Other Entertainment
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- Personalities - Suzette Charles • Dorothea Church
[edit] Medicine
- Personalities - Ben Carson • Bessie Delany
[edit] Military
- Military history • Medal of Honor recipients • Buffalo Soldiers • Tuskegee Airmen • The Golden Thirteen • The Port Chicago 50 • The Black Panthers • USS Mason • Montford Point Marines • Brownsville Affair • Freeman Field Mutiny
- Personalities - Barry Black • Frederick Branch • Carl Brashear • Jesse L. Brown • William Harvey Carney • Donnie Cochran • Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. • Martin Delany • Lillian Fishburne • Henry O. Flipper • Walter Gaskin • Samuel Gravely • Lawrence Joel • Gilbert Johnson • Jeanine McIntosh • Dorrie Miller • Riley L. Pitts • Robert Sweeney • William "Kip" Ward • Melvin Williams
- Organizations- Montford Point Marine Association • NNOA • Tuskegee Airmen, Inc
- Categories - Military members • Civil War personnel • Civil War units • Military History • Tuskegee Airmen •
[edit] Organizations
- ASALH • Links Incorporated • Nation of Islam • NPHC • NUL • UNIA-ACL
- Personalities - James Compton
[edit] Religion
- Black church • Afro-American religion • Urban contemporary Gospel music
- Personalities - Richard Allen • Ben Ammi • James Hal Cone • Louis Farrakhan • T. D. Jakes • Absalom Jones • Elijah Muhammad • Clarence 13X
- Categories - leaders • Category:Afro-American religion
[edit] Scientists and inventors
- List of African American inventors and scientists • mathematicians • astronauts
- Personalities - George Carruthers • Robert Trivers
- Categories - astronauts
[edit] Other historical events and notable figures
- Atlantic slave trade • Exodusters • American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) • Underground Railroad • Emancipation Proclamation • Oberlin-Wellington Rescue • Dred Scott v. Sandford • Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 • Juneteenth • Atlanta Race Riot • Bolling v. Sharpe • Briggs v. Elliott • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Civil Rights Act of 1875 • Compromise of 1850 • Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education • Murder Of Emmett Till • Executive Order 8802 • Executive Order 9981 • Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 • Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 • Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States • History of Marshall, Texas • Hawk's Nest incident • The Great Migration • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents • Milliken v. Bradley • Missouri Compromise • Million Man March • Millions More Movement • Pacific Movement of the Eastern World • Powell v. Alabama • Red Ball Express • African Americans at Siege of Petersburg
- Personalities (16th century) -
- Personalities (17th Century) - Anthony Johnson • Jan Rodrigues
- Personalities (18th Century) - Crispus Attucks • Benjamin Banneker • John Chavis • Thomas Dalton and Lucy Lew • Ayuba Suleiman Diallo • Olaudah Equiano • Amos Fortune • Gabriel • Joshua Johnson • John Julian • Mammy Kate • Prince Hall • Jupiter Hammon • Lemuel Haynes • Sally Hemings • William Lee • Barzillai Lew • Toussaint L'Ouverture • Peter Salem • Venture Smith • James Somerset • Colonel Tye • Phillis Wheatley • Prince Whipple
- Personalities (19th Century) - Archer Alexander • Polly Berry • Benjamin Bradley • John Brown • John Edward Bruce • Anthony Burns • William Harvey Carney • Lott Carey • Louis Chauvin • Joseph Cinqué • A. E. Coleman • A.E. "Fred" Coleman • Samuel Cornish • Fanny Jackson Coppin • Ellen Craft • Alexander Crummell • Rebecca Lee Crumpler • Nelson Davis • Lucy Delaney • Martin Delany • Charles Deslondes • Frederick Douglass • John Dunjee • James Forten • Margaret Garner • Joshua Glover • Elizabeth Greenfield • Madison Hemings • Nelson Hackett • Jeremiah Haralson • Lewis Hayden • Joice Heth • Gullah Jack • Harriet Ann Jacobs • Anna Kingsley • Harry Lew • Jefferson F. Long • Biddy Mason • Free Frank McWorter • Sally Miller • Ben Montgomery • Isaiah Montgomery • America Newton • Moses Roper • Dred Scott • Benjamin "Pap" Singleton • Robert Smalls • Pierre Toussaint • Harriet Tubman • Benjamin S. Turner • Nat Turner • Denmark Vesey • Ida B. Wells • Harriet E. Wilson • York
- Personalities (20th Century & 21st Century) - Tiequon Cox • Sophia Danenberg • Mumia Abu-Jamal • Fred Hampton • Bobby Hutton • Daniel Igali • Pete O'Neal • Afeni Shakur • Holt Collier • Bessie Coleman
- Categories - Little Rock Nine • Black Panther Party members • American Revolution
