Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for

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Aug

20

1944

Dr. Carter G Woodson: "The Father of Black History"

Woodson would choose the second week of February to celebrate Negro History Week because of the birth days of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He also would provide many different types of black institutions with information and instruction on what Negro History Week was and why it had

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Source: Black Past

[Poem] Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray

E’en a moment spun

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Source: Black Then

Black and White Women Abolitionists

Abolitionist was the word used in the 19th century for those who worked to abolish the institution of slavery. Women were quite active in the abolitionist movement, at a time when women were, in general, not active in the public sphere. The presence of women in the abolitionist movement was

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Source: ThoughtCo

Collecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era

On October 16, 1943 Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting Flight into Egypt (see illustration) was hanging in the entrance hall of a home located at 127 Randolph Place in Washington, D.C. The occasion was the opening of the Barnett-Aden Gallery which was founded by James Herring, an artist and art

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Source: Black Past

Black church

The term black church or African-American church refers to Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist

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Source: ThoughtCo

(BPRW) 2020 HBCU Competitiveness Scholars Announced | Press releases

(BPRW) 2020 HBCU Competitiveness Scholars Announced

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Ransome’s ‘Everyday People’ on display at Children’s Museum of Houston

HOUSTON – The Children’s Museum Houston has unveiled a brand-new art exhibit which celebrates people, places and defining moments in African American history, just in time for

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

African American History and Women Timeline 1870-1899

[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1870-1899 • 15th Amendment to the US Constitution gave the right to vote without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude -- but the Amendment did not apply to African American women (or any other women) • Susan McKinney Stewart,

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Source: ThoughtCo

Many people assume thatFebruary is the shortest monthof the whole year to be

Many people assume that February is the shortest month of the whole year to be entitled of Black History Month. But, did you know that is celebrates the birthday of Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?

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Feb

0

1998

A User's Guide to BlackPast.org

Welcome to BlackPast.org, the largest free and unrestricted reference center on African American and Global African History currently on the Internet. This website has over 10,000 pages reflecting the vast array of information on the history of people of African ancestry. This Users Guide is

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Source: Black Past

National Black Convention in Cleveland

National Black Convention met in Cleveland with some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass was elected president of the convention.

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Sep

6

1848

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass , original name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (born February 1818?, Tuckahoe, Maryland, U.S.—died February 20, 1895, Washington, D.C.), African American who was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century. His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust

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Source: Brittanica

Feb

20

1895

Can Photography Be Decolonial?

Art historian Shawn Michelle Smith—in her new book Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography—examines the famous photograph of Emmett

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Source: Public Books

Black Power

Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent.[1] It is used by African Americans in the United States.[2] It was prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing racial pride and the

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Source: ThoughtCo

OP ED: America Should Embrace Prison Returnees to Our Communities

That tension between theory and policy is, sadly, beginning to emerge yet again in Washington, DC, where some community advocates have raised objections to plans for a new residential re-entry center that would provide temporary housing, job and skills training, substance-abuse counseling and other

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Biography of Black Historian Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson is known as the father of black history. He worked tirelessly to establish the field of African-American history in the early 1900s. Born on Dec. 19, 1875, Woodson was the son of two former slaves who had nine children; he was the seventh. He rose from these modest origins to

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Source: ThoughtCo

Delegation urges suffrage for blacks

A delegation of blacks, led by Frederick Douglass, visited President Johnson and urged that suffrage be given to all qualified blacks.

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Jan

0

2000

(1845) Frederick Douglass, “My Slave Experience in Maryland”

Frederick Douglass described his early life in an address titled, “My Slave Experience in Maryland, in a speech delivered in New York City on May 6, 1845. The speech, which was reprinted in the National Antislavery Standard on May 22, 1845, appears below. Douglass had just completed his first

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Brown, William Wells (1814?-1884)

William Wells Brown was an African American antislavery lecturer, groundbreaking novelist, playwright and historian. He is widely considered to have been the first African American to publish works in several major literary genres. Known for his continuous political activism especially in his

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Source: Black Past

Second Baptist Church of Detroit (1836- )

The Second Baptist Church of Detroit, located in the Greektown district of downtown Detroit, is the oldest African American congregation in Michigan and, according to some sources, the

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Source: Black Past

The reality and pitfalls of being Black in America –

My family and friends, we experience racial discrimination every day in all aspects of life, including education, employment, affordable housing, the criminal justice system, the banking system when it comes to getting grants and loans and affordable medical

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Source: Daytona Times

(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”

Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional

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Source: Black Past

May

8

1879

An Episcopal Presidential Lament | Afro

From the streets of Minneapolis, where Mr. George Floyd went limp after a police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes, to outside the White House gates to the hundreds of protestors who besieged cities like

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Georgia legislature agrees to tax on vaping products | The Atlanta Voice

Thursday evening, the Georgia House of Representatives voted in favor of creating a 7% tax on vaping products, Senate Bill 375, passing

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!

? For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in R

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Source: Black Past

Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope

In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was

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Source: Black Past

May

17

1954

Pollard, Fritz (1894-1986)

Fredrick Douglas “Fritz” Pollard, born in 1894, was raised in Chicago, Illinois. In high school he was an all-around athlete excelling as a running back, a three-time Cook County track champion, and a talented baseball player. Upon graduation, for a short time, he played football for

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Source: Black Past

The African American Experience in Italy, 1852 to 2013

In the following article longtime BlackPast.org contributor and San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes discusses African Americanemigrants to and visitors in

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Source: Black Past

Hayden, Earl Robert (1913-1980)

The son of Asa and Ruth Sheffey who named him Asa Bundy at birth, poet Robert Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan and reared in “Paradise Valley,” an inner city ghetto. Adoptive parents, William and Sue Ellen Westerfield Hayden, gave him the name by which he is known. A graduate of

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Source: Black Past

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