Defining the Major Periods in African American History “We Must Learn and Know” This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book entitled In All Our Glory: A Comprehensive Overview of African American History. Central to grasping and appreciating the unfolding of the African American experience in America is knowing the chronology of the master...
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“I plead for industrial education and development for the Negro not because I want to cramp him, but because I want to free him. I want to see him enter the all-powerful business and commercial world.” -Booker T Washington History and study has absolved Booker T Washington of the slanderous attack of being an...
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Die young, die middle age, die old, but remember that the most useful life and most abundant life is the one in which one dreams that which will never completely come true, and chooses ideals that forever beckon buy forever elude. To seek a goal that is worthy, so all-embracing, so all-consuming, and so...
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I want to maintain their dignity at all cost. We as must recognize that we are the custodians as well as the heirs of a great civilization. We have given something to the world as a race and for this we are proud and fully conscious of our place in the total...
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For us, the return to Egypt in all domains is the necessary condition for reconciling African civilization with history, in order to be able to construct a body of modern human sciences, in order to renovate African culture. Far from a reveling in the past, a look toward the Egypt of antiquity is 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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We are presenting this Black History Quiz to provide you will an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of Black History
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