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In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the right of black wo

From the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers "an unflinching look at an unflinch

In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement t

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity rel

In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--