Frederick Douglass, Dr. King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Rev. James Lawson, Diane Nash, Septima Clark, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rev. Lowery, E D Nixon, JoAnn Gibson Robinson, Medgar Evers, James Baldwin, A. Philip Randolph, W E B DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Jack Johnson, Rosa Parks, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Hutton, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Julian Bond, John Lewis, Emmett Till, etc. The list is endless!
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There is a lot of African American writers if you do not believe in my answers search them up in Wikipedia.... Lorraine Hansberry, Phyllis Wheatley, Arna Bontemps, James Johnson, James Baldwin, Imamu Baraka, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Alex Haley,
Toni Morrison, Virginia Hamilton, Zora Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Mildred Taylor, Frances Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Chesnutt, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou,
Eldridge Cleaver, August Wilson, Richard Wright, Paul Dunbar, and Claude McKay.
Well i hope these are enough for whatever your doing.. notice i put a comma in between each one and i wrote first and last name!
Mae Jemison was the first African-American who became an astronaut, and the first African-American who went into space. Also, Barack Obama is the first African-American person ever to become a president of the U.S.
There is no single person who can be deemed the most important person in history. Every African American played a valuable role in history, whether it was cooking food for civil rights leaders/participants as they protested in a new city or if they spoke at marches. Consider this: Dr. King could NOT have been a leader if no one was following him.
Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain. Cain started out as a janitor for Godfather's Pizza and eventually became CEO!
Not all African Americans were slaves. Many were free African Americans while others were so light in their skin color so they could pass as a white. Some free African Americans owned slaves themselves.
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out and improving racial relations have all acted to attract African Americans.
African-Americans fought mostly for the patriots in the American Revolution.
All African Americans became citizens as a result of the 14th Amendment.
Environmental justice is the equal protection of all people with respect to environmental issues.