Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage / Susan Altman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altman, Susan, author.

Contributor:

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Facts on File library of American history

[Facts on File library of American history]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Encyclopedias.

African Americans.

African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.

Africa--Civilization--Encyclopedias.

Africa.

Multicultural education.

United States--History.

United States.

Black or African American.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Facts on File, [2020]

Contents:

Aaron, Hank

Abbott, Robert

Abele, Julian

Abernathy, Ralph

Abolitionist movement

Aborigines

Abraham

Achebe, Chinua

Aesop

Affirmative action

Africa

African-American education

African Americans and the criminal justice system

African Americans in the military

African contact with Americas before Columbus

African National Congress (ANC)

Africans, Leo

Age groups/age sets

AIDS-HIV among Africans

Ailey, Alvin

Akan

Aldridge, Ira

Algeria

Ali, Muhammad

Allen, Richard

Almoravids

American Colonization Society

Amistad

Anderson, Osborne Perry

Angelou, Maya

Angola, People's Republic of

Animism

Apartheid

Apollo Theater

Apprenticeship system

Arabs

Armistad, James

Ashanti

Ashe, Arthur

Asiento

Attucks, Crispus

Augustine, Saint

Axum

Baker, Ella

Baker, Josephine

Bambara

Banneker, Benjamin

Bantu

Bantustans

Baptist War

Baraka, Amiri

Barracoons

Barthé, Richmond

Basie, Count

Basquiat, Jean-Michel

Bates, Daisy

Bath, Patricia Era

Bearden, Romare

Bechet, Sidney

Beckwourth, James

Belgian Congo

Benin, Kingdom of

Benin, Republic of

Berbers

Beta Israel

Biko, Stephen

Black codes

Black Lives Matter

Black Panther Party

Black Power movement

Black seminoles

Blake, Eubie

Blakey, Art

Blues

Bluford, Guion

Bogle, Paul

Bontemps, Arna

Botswana, Republic of

Boukman Revolt

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Brown, Claude

Brown, Clifford

Brown, James

Brown, William Wells

Brownsville, Texas, Affair

Bruce, Blanche K.

Buffalo Soldiers

Bunche, Ralph

Burke, Selma

Burke, Tarana

Burkina Faso

Burundi, Republic of

Bush negroes

Bushmen

Busing and education

Butler, William A.

Calypso

Cameroon, Republic of

Cape Verde, Republic of

Capoeira

Carmichael, Stokely

Carrido, Juan

Carruthers, George Robert

Carson, Benjamin

Carthage

Central African Republic

Chad, Republic of

Chaney, James

Changamire

Chilembwe Uprising

Christian, Charlie

Christian Nubia

Cinque, Joseph

Civil Rights Act, 1964

Civil Rights movement

Clark, Kenneth

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Coffle

Coffy's Rebellion

Coleman, Bessie

Colerdige-Taylor, Samuel

Colfax massacre

Coltrane, John

Comoros, Federal Islamic Republic of the

Congo, Democratic Republic of

Congo Free State

Congo, Republic of the

Congo River

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Copeland, John Anthony

Copeland, Misty Danielle

Coromantees

Cosby, Bill

Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)

Craft, Ellen

Creole Mutiny

Crite, Allan Rohan

Cudjoe

Cuffe, Paul

Cummings, Elijah Eugene

Dahomey

Davis Bend

Davis, Benjamin O., Sr. and Benjamin O., Jr.

Davis, Miles

Delany, Martin Robison

Dessalines, Jean-Jaques

Dinka

Diop, Cheikh Anta

Dioulas

Djibouti, Republic of

Dogon

Douglas, Aaron

Drew, Charles Richard

Du Sable, Jean-Baptiste Pointe

Dumas, Alexadre, Sr.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Dunham, Katherine

Egypt, Arab Republic of

Elaine, Arkansas, incident

Ellington, Duke

Elmina Castle

Emancipation Proclomation

Equatorial Guinea, Republic of

Entrea

Estéban

Eswatini, Kingdom of

Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of

Evans, Aaron Scott

Evers, Medgar

Ewuare the Great

Exodusters

Extended family

Ezana

Fanon, Frantz

Fante

Farmer, James

Farrakhan, Louis

Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Fitzgerald, Ella

Fon

Fort Negro

Fort Pillow Massacre

Forten, James

Foster, Autherine J. Lucy

Franklin, Aretha

Franklin, John Hope

Frazier, E. Franklin

Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

Freedman's Bureau

Freedom rides

Freeman, Elizabeth

French West African Federation

Fugitive Slave Act, 1850

Fulani

Fuller, Charles

Fuller, Meta V. Warrick

Gabon, Republic of

Gaines, Ernest J.

The Gambia, Republic of

Gao

Garcia, Jose Mauricio Nunes

Garifunas

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Gaye, Marvin

Ge'ez

Ghana, Kingdom of

Ghana, Republic of

Gillespie, Dizzy, Gilliam, Sam

Giovanni, Nikki

Gold Coast

Gordone, Charles

Gordy, Berry, Jr.

Gorée, Gospel music

Grandfather clauses

Great migration

Great Zimbabwe

Green book

Green, Shields

Griffin v. Prince Edward County, Virginia

Guinea-Bissau, Republic of

Gullah

Haile Selassie I

Haiti, Republic of

Haley, Alex

Hall, Prince

Hamer, Fannie Lou

Hancock, Herbie

Hannibal

Hanno

Hansberry, Lorraine

Harlem

Harlem Renaissance

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

Harpers Ferry Raid

Hausa

Hawkins, Coleman

Hayden, Lewis

Hayden, Robert

Healy, Patrick

Hemings, Sally

Hendrix, Jimi

Henson, Josiah

Henson, Matthew

Hieroglyphics

Himes, Chester

Hooks, Bell

Horse, John

Houphouët-Boigny, Félix

Houston, Charles H.

Houston mutiny

Ibn Battuta

Ife

Imhotep

Indian Ocean trade

Ivory Coast, Republic of

Jackson Mahalia

Jackson, Michael

James, Daniel "Chappie"

Jazz

Jefferson, Blind Lemon

Jemisin, Nora K.

Jemison, Mae

Jenne

Jim Crow

Johnson, Henry

Johnson, Jack

Johnson, John H.

Johnson, Robert

Johnson, William Henry

Jones, Absalom

Jones, Frederick

Jones, Lois Mailou

Jones, Quincy

Joplin, Scott

Jordan, George

Jordan, Michael

Juba II

Just, Ernest E.

Kaepernick, Colin Rand

Kanem-Bornu

Kanissa'ai

Kay, Ulysses

Kente cloth

Kenya, Republic of

Kenyatta, Jomo

Kerma

Khoi

Kikuyu

Kilwa

King, B. B.

Kisama

Kola nuts

Kongo, Kingdom of

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

!Kung San

Kush

Kwanzaa

Kwosso

Labor and property rights of African Americans in the United States

Lalibela

Latimer, Lewis Howard

Lawrence, Jacob

Leadbelly

Lee, Spike

Lesotho, Kingdom of

"Letter from Birmingham jail"

Lewis, Edmonia

Lewis, John Robert

Liberia, Republic of

Libya

Literacy requirements

Little Rock Nine

Loguen, Jermain W.

Louis, Joe

Louisiana slave revolt

Love, Nat

Lumumba, Patrice Emery

Lynching

Maasai

Madagascar, Republic of

Malawi, Republic of

Mali, Empire of

Mali, Republic of

Malindi

Mandela, Nelson

Mandinka

Mansa Kankan Musa

March on Washington, 1963

Marley, Bob

Maroons

Martin, Trayvon

Matzeliger, Jan Earnst

Mau Mau

Mauretania and Numidia

Maurice, Saint

Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

Mauritius, Republic of

McCoy, Elijah

McKay, Claude

McMillan, Terry

Melanesia

Menelik II

Meredith, James

Meroe

Middle Passage

Miller, Dorie

Million Man March

Mingus, Charles

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

Mississippi Freedom Summer Project

Mitchell, Arthur

Mombasa

Monk, Thelonius

Monomotapa

Montgomery bus boycott

Moors

Morgan, Garrett A.

Morocco, Kingdom of

Morrison, Toni

Moses, Robert

Mossi

Motley, Willard Francis

Mozambique, Republic of

Mud cloth

Muhammad, Elijah

Muhammad Touré

Murphy, Isaac

Myers, Isaac

Namibia, Republic of

Nanny

Nation of Islam

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Urban League

Ndebele

Neco

Ned

Negritos

Negro baseball leagues

New York draft riots

New York Slave Rebellion of 1712

Newton, Huey P.

Ngoni

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Niagara movement

Niger, Republic of

Nigeria, Federal Republic of

Nile River

Nkrumah, Kwame

Nok

Norman, Jessye

Nuba

Nubia

Nuer

Nyerere, Julius Kambarage

Nzinga Mbande

Obama, Barack Hussein

Owens, Jessie

Oyo

Paige, Satchel

Palmares, Republic of

Pan-Africanism

Parker, Charlie

Parks, Gordon

Parks, Rosa

Pele

Philadelphia, Mississippi, Murders

Phoenicians

Pickett, Bill

Pinchback, P.B.S.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Poll tax

Powell, Colin

Price, Leontyne

Prince, Lucy Terry

Prosser, Gabriel

Pryor, Richard

Punt

Puryear, Martin

Pygmies

Pyramids

Quarles, Benjamin

Race records

Ramses II

Rap

Rastafarianism

Reconstruction

Reconstruction amendments

A red record

Red Summer of 1919

Reggae

Renaissance Big Five

Revels, Hiram

Rhythm and blues

Rice, Condoleeza

Rice, Susan E.

Rillieux, Norbert

Robeson, Paul

Robinson, Jackie

Robinson, Randall

Rollins, Sonny

Roots

Rosewood, Florida, race riots

Rudolph, Wilma

Russwurm, John Brown

Rustin, Bayard

Rwanda

Sahara

Sahel

Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne, chevalier de

Salem Peter

Samori Touré

Sao

São Tomé e, Principe

Sara

Savage, Augusta

Scarification

Schomburg, Arthur

Scott, Dred

Scottsboro Trial

Segregation

Senegal, Republic of

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Seychelles, Republic of

Shaka

Shange, Ntozake

Sharecropping

Sharpe, Samuel

Sickle-cell anemia

Sierra Leone, Republic of

Simpson, O.J.

Singleton, John Daniel

Singleton, Pap

Sit-in movement

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing

Slave Coast

Slavery

Smalls, Robert

Sokoto Caliphate

Somali Democratic Republic

Songhai, Empire of

Soul

South Sudan

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Soyinka, Wole

Sphinx

Spirituals

Still, William

Stono, South Carolina, Rebellion

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Sudan, Republic of the

Sudd

Sundiata Keita

Sunni Ali the Great

Swahili

Tacky's Rebellion

Taghaza

Taharqa

Talented Tenth

Tanner, Henry Ossawa

Tanzania, United Republic of

Tariq ibn Ziyad

Tassil-n-Ajjer rock paintings

Tatum, Art

Temple, Lewis

Thomas, Angie

Thomas, Clarence

Till, Emmett

Timbuktu

Tip, Tippu

Togo, Republic of

toussaint Louverture, François-Dominique

Triangular trade

Trotter, William Monroe

Tuareg

Tunisia, Republic of

Tuskegee Airmen

Tuskegee syphylis experiement

Tutu, Desmond

Tyson, Neil deGrasse

Uganda, Republic of

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Underground Railroad

Union League

Van Der Zee, James

Vaughan, Sarah

Vesey, Denmark

Voodoo

Voting rights struggle

Walcott, Derek

Walker, Alice

Walker, T-Bone

Washington, George

Waters, Muddy

Watts, Andre

West, Cornel

Western, Sahara

Wheatley, Phillis

White primary

Wideman, John Edgar

Wilkins, Roy

Williams, Daniel Hale

Williams, George Washington

Wilson, August

Winfrey, Oprah

Wolof

Woods, Granville T.

Woods, Tiger

Woodson, Carter

Xhosa

York

Yoruba

Young, Andrew

Young, Charles

Zambia, Republic of

Zande

Zanj

Zanj Rebellion

Zanzibar

Zimba

Zimbabwe, Republic of

Zong

Zulu.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781438182469

1438182465

Publisher Number:

99991358853

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