That African American Women have been a powerful social force in the struggle to end oppression-slavery and Jim Crowism- is indisputable. History show that beginning with the long period of enslavement, black women were in the vanguard in resisting the degradation and dehumanization attendant to American slavery, which included forced separation of children from...
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The extraordinary achievements of African American women did not grow out of the degradation of slavery or segregation, but out of a legacy of courage, resourcefulness, initiative and dignity. For example, a look at the African American Freedom movement and an examination of the triumphs of black women in recent years show what black...
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1. Name the first African American labor union chartered by the American Federation of Labor. 2. What event sparked the 1960s Civil Rights Movement? 3. Name the speech that is considered the greatest speech of the twentieth-century. 4. What is considered Malcolm x’s most famous speech. 5. Name the principal student organization of the...
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1. Name the pre-colonial city where book selling was the chief industry. 2. Name the African American who led the most feared and successful armed rebellion against African American Enslavement. 3. Name the foremost black abolitionist who fought to end American Slavery and championed of women’s rights. 4. Name the scholar, intellectual, writer, poet,...
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1. Who was the first African warrior-king to unite Upper and Lower Egypt four millennia ago? 2. Name two great empires in pre-colonial Africa. 3. Name the fierce black woman and abolitionist and women’s rights activist woman who spoke truth to power with her famous statement, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 4. Who was the...
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Africa was as important to King as it was for Malcolm X
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As James Brodie notes, “Understanding the contributions made by African inventors and scientist in the Western Hemisphere is impossible without recognizing the conditions under which they created.” The conditions in which they worked and created rarely paralleled the expansion of American democracy and citizenship for African Americans. Paradoxically, some of the major contributions of...
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Overview Despite a history of being shut out of professional occupations and confined to working in industries deemed acceptable for them, such as domestic services, some manual trades, and agriculture there was no total loss of black ingenuity and technological innovation. African Americans made and continue to make significant contributions to science and humanity....
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The intellectual and scientific curiosity of Africans led to significant developments in science and technology
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