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	African Americans - Culture, History, Legacy and Heritage of A Proud People including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Black History Month African Americans - Activism African Americans - Marcus Garvey African Americans - Elijah Muhammad African Americans - Angela Yvonne Davis African Americans - Diabetes: a Deadly Foe African Americans - African American Achievers - Prominent and Distinguished African Americans Contributing to Society African Americans - Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first to campaign for the presidency, known for her incisive debating style and uncompromising integrity. African Americans - Shirley Chisholm - Selected Shirley Chisholm Quotations African Americans - Shirley Chisholm - For the Equal Rights Movement Delivered August 10, 1970 at Washington, D. C. African Americans - Shirley Chisholm African Americans - Langston Hughes African American Celebrities - Dorothy Dandridge, Star of Stage and Screen Movies African Americans - Maps and Flags of African Nations African Americans - Africana African Americans - African American History Month 2000 African American History Month and the Legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. African Americans - NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH, 2000 African American History Month Presidential Proclamation 2002 African Americans - Paul Cuffe African Americans - James Forten, Black Nationalist, Entrepreneur African Americans - Annie Turnbo Malone - Entrepreneur, Philanthropist AfricanAmericans.com - Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, Civil Rights Leader African Americans - Secretary of State Colin Powell African Americans - Images from African American History Month African Americans - African Languages African Americans - African Origins - Where in Africa did African Americans Originate? African Americans - William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, writer, social scientist, critic, and public intellectual; cofounder of the Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Pan-African Congress; editor of the NAACP magazine, The Crisis. African Americans - Afrocentric African Americans - Archives African Americans - Arts African Americans - Authors African Americans - African American Astronauts African Americans - Guion S. Bluford, First African American in Space African Americans - Frederick D. Gregory, First African American Space Shuttle Commander African Americans - Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. Astronaut, First African American to Walk in Space African Americans - Mae C. Jemison, Physician/Surgeon, Astronaut African Americans - Air Force Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., First African American Astronaut African Americans - Biographies of Notable and Famous African Americans, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Zora Neale Hurston, Alexander Crummell et al African Americans - Benjamin Banneker African Americans - Slavery Chronology African Americans - Who was Sojourner Truth African American Historical Documents - The Emancipation Proclamation EmancipationProclamation.jpg African Americans - Sojouner Truth, Autobiography, Her Birth And Parentage African Americans - Harriet Jacobs African Americans - The Underground Railroad African Americans - The Life of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad African Americans - The Harriet Tubman Home AfricanAmericans.com - The Life of Harriet Tubman, USS Harriet Tubman African American Historical Documents - The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 African Americans - Booker T. Washington African Americans - Booker T. Washington, Awakening of the Negro African Americans - Booker T. Washington, Signs of Progress Among the Negroes African Americans - George Washington Carver African Americans - National African American History Month, 1997 Proclamation by President Bill Clinton African Americans - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett African Americans - Anti-Lynching Speech African Americans - Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator African Americans - National Association of Colored Women African Americans - Jessie Fauset African Americans - Zora Neale Hurston African Americans - Alice Walker, Writer African Americans - Malcolm X - (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) MalcolmXspeech.aiff African Americans - Coretta Scott King Biography, Human Rights Advocate African Americans - March on Washington Index African Americans - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech 10 December 1964 Oslo, Norway MLKspeechexcerpt.aiff African Americans - Paul Robeson - (b. April 9, 1898, Princeton, N. J.; d. January 23, 1976, Philadelphia, Pa.). American dramatic actor, singer of spirituals, civil rights activist, and political radical. African Americans - Remarks by Harry Belafonte about Paul Robeson to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade African Americans - Duke Ellington African Americans - Historic African American Figures African Americans - Richard Gordon Hatcher African Americans - The Birth of a Nation - On February 8, 1915, D.W. Griffith's controversial silent film, The Birth of a Nation, premiered in Los Angeles, California. Released under the title, The Clansman, the movie debuted only after Griffith sought an injunction from the court. Although local censors approved the film, city council members responded to concerns about the racist nature of the picture by ordering it suppressed. African American Historical Documents - The History of the Ku Klux Klan African Americans Lynchings - In the South, lynching was one of the terrorist tactics used to control and threaten the African American. Between 1889 and 1918, a total of 2,522 black Americans were lynched, 50 of them women. These people were hanged, burned alive, or hacked to death. According to the mythology popular at the time, black men were lynched because they had raped white women, yet historians find that in eighty percent of the cases there were no sexual charges alleged, let alone proved. People were lynched for petty offenses such as stealing a cow, arguing with a white man, or attempting to register to vote. Social critic H.L. Mencken described the practice as one which "in sheer high spirits, some convenient African is taken at random and lynched, as the newspapers say, 'on general principles.'" No one was punished in the South for taking part in a lynching until 1918. African Americans - Lynchings, The Lynching of Sam Hose. Sam Hose was an African American worker who was lynched in Newnan, Georgia on April 23, 1899, in front of 2,000 white people, many of whom had travelled to Newnan from Atlanta for the occasion. Hose was accused of murdering his employer, Albert Cranford, over a wage dispute. Hose killed Cranford, who had pulled a revolver on Hose, with an axe. Cranford's wife accused Hose of raping her as her husband lay dying, but subsequently admitted to fabricating this claim. Hose's lynching was well advertised ahead of time in newspapers, including the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, which implied Hose would be tortured prior to his lynching. Sam Hose's corpse was mutilated and dismembered (his ears, genitals, and fingers were cut off, and his face skinned). His body was then tied to a tree and set on fire, and parts of him were taken as souvenirs by onlookers. African American Historical Documents - The Origin of Jim Crow African American Historical Documents - Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 No. 33. African Americans - Blacks in American Film - A historical overview of black filmmaking and the portrayal of blacks in American film. Africa Americans - Oscar Micheaux, African American Film Maker 1884 - 1951 African American Films - 'Underworld' by Oscar Micheaux 1937 African Americans - Blacks in American Film, St. Louis Blues starring Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues African American Celebrity Josephine Baker, Dancer and Singer African Americans - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Author and Poet African American Films - 'Body and Soul' by Oscar Micheaux 1925 African Americans - Blacks in American Film, Black and Tan starring Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orcheatra African American Films - Hallelujah - the first soundie with an all black cast was released August 20, 1929. African Americans - James Weldon Johnson, Author of the Negro National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. African Americans - Hattie McDaniel - The first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, McDaniel was honored as Best Supporting Actress of 1939 for her portrayal of Mammy in David O. Selznick's classic motion picture Gone With The Wind (1939). African Americans - Girl From Chicago African Americans - A. Philip Randolph, Labor Leader and Civil Rights Leader and Member of the Big Six with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. African Americans - Sidney Poitier African Americans - Harold George 'Harry' Belafonte - African American singer, actor, producer, and activist, who has used his position as an entertainer to promote civil rights and human rights worldwide. African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America African Americans - Gordon Parks, Photographer, writer, filmmaker, composer, musician African Americans - Memphis reacts to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. African Americans - Memphis reacts to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. African Americans - Amos 'N' Andy African Americans - Halle Berry: Academy Award Winning Actress, 2002 Best Actress Acceptance Speech African Americans - Will Smith African Americans - Blacks in American Film, The Bull Dogger staring Bill Pickett African Americans - Blacks in American Film, The Flaming Crisis African American Films - A Pair O' Dice Movie African Americans - Blacks in American Film, The Exile 1931 by Oscar Micheaux African Americans - Blacks in American Film, Black Gold African Americans - Blacks in American Film, The Black King African American Films - Hypnotized African American Films - Murder in Harlem, Directed by Oscar Micheaux, 1935 African Americans - Within Our Gates (1920 - silent) African American Films - 'Temptation' by Oscar Micheaux. Ethel Moses stars as a model who gets involved with some nefarious characters and tries her best to go straight. She gets some support from Chester and Andrew Bishop and finally finds safety. Temptation's stars include Slick Chester, then known as "The Colored Cagney"; Lorenzo Tucker, "The Black Valentino"; Ethel Moses, "The Negro Harlow"; and Bea Freeman, "The Sepia Mae West." African Americans - African American Films - Song of Freedom starring Paul Robeson African Americans - Cabin Kids African Americans - African American Films - The Bronze Buckaroo, (1939) Written and directed by Richard C. Kahn; with Herb Jeffries, Lucius Brooks, Artie Young. This time, our singing cowboy rides to the rescue of an old friend who's in the hands of shifty scoundrels trying to steal his land. The thin plot is plumped up with liberal doses of comic relief and a few songs. An average little horse opera. African American Films - 'Harlem on the Prairie' African Americans - African American Films, Two Gun Man From Harlem. (1938) Written directed by Richard C. Kahn; with Herb Jeffries Margaret Whitten, Clarence Brooks, Mantan Moreland. African Americans - Harlem Rides the Range African Americans - Lying Lips African Americans - African American Films, Son of Ingagi African Americans - Blacks in American Film, Cabin in the Sky, Film version of Lynn Roots musical about a gambling husband who is reformed by a dream of his own death. Effectively directed by Vincente Minnelli. It contained the Oscar nominated song, "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe". African American Films - Stormy Weather featuring: Lena Horne, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller and the Nicholas Brothers (Fayard and Harold). African Americans - Fight That Ghost African American Films - Blacks in American Film, Hi De Ho starring Cab Calloway. This classical musical featurette presents Cab Calloway at his finest singing such great tunes as "Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man", "Frisco Flo", and "I Got A Right To Sing The Blues" among others. Calloway, one of the first scat singers whose legendary band once included Dizzy Gillespie, Chu Berry, and Eddie Barefield, is "mesmerizing!" African American Films - 'Boarding House Blues'. BOARDING HOUSE BLUES (1948) With Dusty Fletcher, Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Lucky Millinder & His Band, Una Mae Carlisle, Bull Moose Jackson, Stump & Stumpy, The Berry Brothers. The theater folk who reside down at Moms Mabley's Boarding House put on a big show to help get Moms out of debt. This film offers a marvelous array of black nightclub and vaudeville acts, with big band music from Lucky Millinder, singing from Una Mae Carlisle, comedy & music by Stump & Stumpy, dancing by the fabulous Berry Brothers, the comic antics of Dusty Fletcher, and Moms Mabley doing one of her trademark routines. And wait 'til you see Crip Heard, a one-legged, one-armed dancer! African Americans - Spencer Williams, Black screen actor, writer, and director African Americans - Billie Holiday, Jazz Singer, Also known as: Eleanora Fagan African Americans - Moms Mabley African Americans - Historical Documents - Black Panther Party Platform and Program African Americans - Robert George Seale, Also known as: Bobby Seale Activist , Black Panther Party African Americans - Spike Lee, Filmmaker African Americans - Sammy Davis Jr., Entertainer, Singer, Actor and Member of the Rat Pack African Americans - Diahann Carroll African Americans - Black Saints African Americans - Black Saints, St. Martin De Porres African Americans - St. Peter Claver, Also known as the Slave of the Blacks. Patronage of African missions, African Americans, against slavery, black missions, black people, Columbia, foreign missions, inter-racial justice, Negroes, people named Peter, race relations, slavery African Americans - Black Videos African Americans - Black Indians In American West History African Americans - AA Owned Broadcast Stations African Americans - Canadian African Americans - Cartoons and Comedy African Americans - Black Catholics African Americans - Black History Month, African American History Month - Celebrity Biographies Notable African Americans - Notable African American Government Officials African AmericansNotable African Americans - Civil Rights Leaders Biographies African Americans - Historic Contributions of Black Scientists and Engineers African Americans - Inventors that are African American African Americans - Notable African American Actors African American Athletes African Americans - Great African American Football Players African Americans - Hank Aaron, Great African American Baseball Players - Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame Player and All-Time Home Run King African Americans - Jane Addams - Founder of NAACP AfricanAmericans.com - Richard Allen, Former Slave and Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church African Americans - Marian Anderson African Americans - Muhammad Ali aka Cassius Clay, Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World The Life and Times of Muhammad Ali in Pictures aka Cassius Clay The Life and Times of Muhammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay) in Pictures African Americans - The Life and Times of Muhammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay) in Pictures African Americans - The Life and Times of Muhammad Ali in Pictures African Americans - The Life and Times of Muhammad Ali in Pictures AfricanAmericans.com - Maya Angelou maya Angelou signifying.au AfricanAmericans.com - Poem by Maya Angelou read at the Million Man March by the poet African Americans - Maya Angelou More... African Americans - James Armistead African Americans - Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, Jazz Musician African Americans - Matthew Ashby African Americans - Arthur Robert Ashe Jr, World Class Tennis Star and Great Man African Americans - Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary War Patriot African Americans - James Baldwin, Novelist, Essayist, Playwright African Americans - Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub African Americans - Daisy Bates, " One of the "Little Rock Nine" African Americans - James Beckwourth, Ex-Slave and Early Pioneer Western Frontiersman African Americans - Cool Papa Bell, James Thomas Bell - Negro Leagues Baseball Hall of Fame Member African Americans - Chuck Berry, Singer, musician, songwriter African Americans - The Beulah Show on TV AmosnAndyRadio1933.ram BeulahRadio.ram African Americans - The Beulah Show TV Part 2 African Americans - Julian Bond, Civil Rights Leader African Americans - Barry Bonds African Americans - Mary Elizabeth Bowser, a freed slave who was placed as a servant in the Confederate White House in Richmond, was as cunning as a fox. African Americans - Edward Brooke African Americans - Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet African Americans - Jim Brown, Actor, Social Activist and NFL Football Player African Americans - Willa Beatrice Brown, American Aerospace Pioneer African American Heroes - Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce African Americans - Ralph Bunche African Americans - Cab Calloway, Singer, songwriter, composer, bandleader, actor and author African Americans - Roy Campanella, Campy - Roy Campanella, one of the five black players signed by Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey before the 1946 season, was the first catcher to break organized baseball's color line. Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher. African Americans - Stokely Carmichael African Americans - Hurricane Rubin Carter African Americans - Wilt Chamberlain AfricanAmericans.com - Ray Charles Robinson, Singer/Composer/Musician African Americans - Joseph Cinqu, Slave Leader African Americans - Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Educator, writer, lawyer, activist African Americans - Roberto Walker Clemente, Baseball Hall of Fame and Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. African Americans - Nat King Cole, Vocalist NatKingColedc.jpg African Americans - Bessie Coleman, First African American woman to get a pilot's license. African Americans - John Coltrane, Musician, bandleader, composer African Americans - Ward Connerly, Activist, businessperson African Americans - Anna Julia Cooper African Americans - Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan African Americans - Bill Cosby, Entertainer - 2002 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient African Americans - Alexander Crummell African Americans - Tuskegee Airmen leader Benjamin O. Davis dies African Americans - Miles Davis, Jazz Man African Americans - Ossie Davis, Actor, Activist and Playright, Married to Ruby Dee African Americans - Ruby Dee, Actress. Ruby Dee was known for wonderful personality. She was a civil rights activist, a writer and a actress. African Americans - Martin Robinson Delany African Americans - Great African American Baseball Players, Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians African Americans - Charles R. Drew, Surgeon and blood researcher. Also known as: Charles Richard Drew, Charles Drew, Dr. Charles R. Drew African Americans - Elizabeth Eckford, One of the 'Little Rock Nine' September 1957 African Americans - Myrlie Evers-Williams, Civil rights activist and wife of Medgar Evers African Americans - Reverend Walter Edward Fauntroy African Americans - Blacks in American Film, Stepin Fetchit African American Women - Stagecoach Mary Fields - Born a slave in Tennessee in 1832, this tall, powerfully built woman was ambitious, daring and liked a good fight. With no formal education, she forged her way to Ohio and on to the Montana Territory. Declaring herself the protector of the Ursuline nuns at St. Peter's Catholic Mission near Cascade, Montana, Mary defended those she loved from predators on two legs as well as four. She delivered the mail by stagecoach, never missing a day until she was almost 80 years old. She died in Cascade in 1914. African Americans - Second Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper - First Black Graduate of West Point African Americans - Grant Fuhr first African American to be inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame African Americans - E. Franklin Frazier African Americans - Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was a founder of the modern jazz style known as bebop. African Americans - Whoopi Goldberg African Americans - Greensboro Four, Feburary 2, 1960. Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin Eugene McCain, Joseph Alfred McNeil, David Leinail Richmond African Americans - Dick Gregory African Americans - Olaudah Equiano, Slave African Americans - Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul African Americans - Henry Louis Gates Jr, Educator, scholar, literary critic, writer African Americans - Marvin Penze Gaye, Singer, songwriter African Americans - Logan Greenbury African Americans - Alex Haley, an African American writer, is best known for as the author of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, from which two television miniseries, Roots and Roots II, were adapted. The novels, loosely based on Haley's own family, presented an interpretation of the journey of African Americans from their homeland to the United States and their subsequent search for freedom and dignity. The novel was published in 1976, when the United States was celebrating it's bicentennial. African Americans - Captain Charles B. Hall was an ace fighter pilot during World War II with the famous all negro 99th Fighter Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen), 1944. African Americans - 99th Pursuit Squadron African Americans - Prince Hall - Fraternal Leader, Civil Rights Activist African Americans - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was an outspoken advocate for civil rights for African Americans. African Americans - W. C. Handy African Americans - Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, The production of her play, A Raisin in the Sun catapulted Hansberry into the forefront of the theatre world. She was named most promising playwright of the season by Variety's poll of New York Drama Critics. Upon receiving that year's Drama Desk Award, Lorraine Hansberry became the youngest person and the first African American to win that distinguished honor. In 1961 the film version of the play, starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Ruby Dee opened; Hansberry won a special award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a Screen Writer's Guild Award for her screenplay. A second television adaptation of the play aired in 1989 starring Danny Glover, Esther Rolle, and Kim Yancey. African Americans - The Harlem Globetrotters are a black professional U.S. basketball team that plays exhibition games all over the world, drawing crowds as large as 75,000 to see the players' spectacular ball handling and humorous antics. The all-black team was organized in 1927 by sports promoter Abe Saperstein, who owned it until his death in 1966. Lacking a hometown, they began touring the United States in Saperstein's car. Later they travelled abroad to popularize their entertaining brand of basketball. They play against a team that they call the Opposition, which is made up largely of white players. The Opposition never wins and functions much like the straight man in a two-man comedy team. Some outstanding Globetrotters have been Reece Goose Tatum, Marques Haynes, Clarence Wilson, Meadowlark Lemon, and Wilt Chamberlain. AfricanAmericans.com - Patricia R. Harris African Americans - William Henry Hastie African Americans - Matthew Alexander Henson - Matthew Henson was the explorer who accompanied Robert E. Peary on his expeditions, including his 1909 journey to the North Pole. African Americans - James "Jimi" Hendrix, Rock Musician African Americans - A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. African Americans - Ron Holden African Americans - Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, Founder of Howard University African Americans - Charles Hamilton Houston Biography African Americans - Benjamin L. Hooks, Executive Director of the NAACP, Attorney, and Clergyman African Americans - Lena Calhoun Horne, Actress and Singer African Americans - Jesse Louis Jackson AfricanAmericans.com - Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer African Americans - Reggie Jackson, Mr. October, New York Yankees and Oakland A's Baseball Hall of Fame Player African Americans - General Daniel Chappie James, Jr. African Americans - Herb Jeffries, Hollywood Movie Cowboy and Singer African Americans - Rafer Lewis Johnson, American athlete who won a gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. African Americans - Quincy Jones, Music Impresario - Songwriter, composer, musician, producer, arranger, improviser, bandleader, A&R executive, film and television composer, record company president, magazine publisher, entrepreneur, tastemaker. African Americans - Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime African Americans - Barbara Jordan African Americans - Michael Jordan, NBA Basketball Player African Americans - Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr., Civil Rights Leader African Americans - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Track and Field Athlete and Olympic Star African Americans - Riley B.B. King, Singer and Musician African Americans - Eartha Kitt, Actress, Dancer and Singer African Americans - John Mercer Langston, Black leader of conviction and influence, a visionary reformer, and an accomplished statesman and lawyer. African Americans - Queen Latifah, Rapper, actress, producer African Americans - Jacob Lawrence, Artist, educator African Americans - Buck Leonard, African American Baseball Great AfricanAmericans.com - Alain LeRoy Locke, American educator, writer, and philosopher, who is best remembered as a leader and chief interpreter of the Harlem Renaissance. African Americans - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Brown v. Board of Education African Americans - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela African Americans - Winnie Madikizela Mandela African Americans - Bob Marley, Reggae Superstar African Americans - Victoria Matthews, Angel of Mercy - Educator, writer, and Civil Rights advocate. African Americans - Great African American Baseball Players, Willie Mays, The 'Say Hey Kid' Major League Most Valuable Player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame African Americans - Elijah McCoy, Engineer, Inventor African Americans - Butterfly 'Thelma' McQueen, Actress African Americans - James Howard Meredith African Americans - World War II Navy Cross Recipient Dorie 'Doris' Miller African Americans - African Americans and the U. S. Navy: A Bibliography African Americans - Harry Tyson Moore, Civil Rights Activist African Americans - Garrett Augustus Morgan, Gas Mask and Traffic Signal Inventor African Americans - Mantan Moreland African Americans - Toni Morrison, Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 African Americans - Mary White Ovington African Americans - Don Newcombe won the Major League Cy Young Award and the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1956, following his 27-win season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. AfricanAmericans.com - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton African Americans - Senator Barack Obama, D-Illinois - Just the third African American ever elected to the United States Senate. African Americans - Alan Cedric Page, African American football player who became the first defensive player to win the Most Valuable Player award of the National Football League (NFL), for 1971. He was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1988. During his playing days Page entered law school and earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1978. He went into private practice in 1979 and then joined the Minnesota attorney general's office in 1985. In 1993 he became an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. African Americans - Leroy "Satchel" Paige African Americans - Walter Payton, NFL Football Player African Americans - Pel, World Famous Soccer Star African Americans - Bill Pickett - William (Will, Bill) Pickett was a legendary cowboy from Taylor, Texas of African American and American Indian descent. He was born December 5, 1870, at the Jenks-Branch community on the Travis County line. He died April 2, 1932, near Ponca City, Oklahoma. African Americans - Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback African Americans - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable African Americans - Adam Clayton Powell Jr African Americans - Gabriel Prosser, Slave Revolt Leader African Americans - Richard Pryor, Comedian, actor, writer African Americans - Bass Reeves, Deputy United States Marshall African Americans - Senator Hiram Rhoades Revels - 1st African American Senator from Mississippi 1870-1871 African Americans - Dr. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor African Americans - Norbert Rillieux, Sugar Chemist and Inventor African Americans - Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson African Americans - Smokey Robinson, Singer, songwriter, producer African Americans - Sugar Ray Robinson African Americans - Wilma Rudolph, 3 Time Gold Medal Winner at the Rome Olympics, 1960 African Americans - Bill Russell, NBA Boston Celtics Basketball Star African American Activist and Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin African Americans - Arthur Schomburg - Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg, bibliophile, historian, writer, collector, curator African Americans - Betty Shabazz, Activist, Nurse, Health services administrator, Educator African Americans - Bobby Short, Cabaret Singer. Bobby Short, the suave, tuxedoed cabaret singer who epitomized Manhattan glamour and sophistication with renderings of the great American songbook, died of leukemia Monday March 21, 2005 at 80. African Americans - Tavis Smiley, Famed Journalist and Talk Show Host. African Americans - Reverend Charles Kenzie "C.K." Steele, Civil Rights Activist African Americans - Caroline Still Wiley Anderson African Americans - Mary Burnette Talbert African Americans - Koko Taylor, Blues Singer African Americans - Helen Brooke Taussig African Americans - Mary Church Terrell AfricanAmericans.com - Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas African Americans - Dr. Howard Thurman, Theologian African Americans - NatTurner, American Slave African Americans - Cicely Tyson Notable African Americans - Denmark Vesey, Carpenter, minister, revolutionary African Americans - Thomas Fats Waller, Singer and Musician African Americans - Maggie Lena Draper Walker, the first woman in the United States to become a president of a local bank, was born July 15, 1867 in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. She was a daughter of former slaves, Elizabeth Draper Mitchell and William Mitchell, who worked in the mansion of the abolitionist Elizabeth Van Lew. After a few years of living at the mansion, her father got a job as the head waiter at the Saint Charles Hotel and the family moved to a small house in town. African Americans - Sarah Breedlove (Madame C. J.) Walker African Americans - Josiah Thomas Walls, Politician African Americans - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Author African Americans - Denzel Washington, Actor, philanthropist African Americans - Ethel Waters African Americans - Muddy Waters, Blues Musician African Americans - Phillis Wheatley, American Poet African Americans - Notable African Americans, Armstrong Williams African Americans - Fannie Barrier Williams, Civil and Equal Rights Advocate African Americans - Serena Williams, Tennis player, Olympic athlete, actor African Americans - August Wilson, Playwright, poet African Americans - Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host, Actress, Broadcasting Executive AfricanAmericans.com - Granville T. Woods, Inventor African Americans - Tiger Woods African Americans - Carter G. Woodson, historian, educator and Father of African American History Month African Americans - Stevie Wonder mastered Motown's distinctive fusion of pop and soul and went on to compose far more idiosyncratic music, an ambitious hybrid of sophisticated Tin Pan Alley chord changes an R&B energy, infected with jazz, reggae, and African Rhythms. (Steveland Judkins) African Americans - Census Bureau Facts African Americans - Census Profile America African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Index African Americans - Civil Rights History and Timeline African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Civil War African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Black Codes African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America End of Reconstruction African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Political Party Problem African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Civil Rights Cases of 1883 African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - "The Free White Jury That Will Never Convict" African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Separate but Equal African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Renationalizing the Civil Rights Issue African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Early Civil Rights Movement African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Black Voters and the Democratic Party African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Presidential Action for Civil Rights African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Eisenhower Administration African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Massive Resistance African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Non-Violent Movement African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Montgomery Bus Boycott African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Eisenhower Civil Rights Program African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Civil Rights Act of 1957 African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Congressional Action African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Little Rock African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Civil Rights Act of 1960 African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Student Sit-In Demonstrations African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Kennedy Administration African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - A Unique Legislative Environment African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Political Impact African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Protest at Selma African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Splintering of the Civil Rights Movement African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - The Housing Rights Act of 1968 African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - School Busing African Americans - A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States of America - Milliken v. 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