100 Amazing Facts About the Negro - Gates, Henry Louis

Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? 3 How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? 9 Who was the first African to arrive in America? 10 Who was the first black saint? 12 Who was the first black... prečítať celé

Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? 3
How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? 9
Who was the first African to arrive in America? 10
Who was the first black saint? 12
Who was the first black president in North America? 14
Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? 16
Who was the first black explorer of the North American Southwest? 18
Which slave literally wrote his way to freedom? 20
What was the first black town in North America? 23
Who was George Washington's runaway slave? 25
Who was the first black person in the United States to lead a back to Africa effort? 28
Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus? 31
Where was the first black town in what is now the United States? 34
What happened to the forty acres and a mule that former slaves were promised? 37
Were slaves actually eaten by dogs? 40
Where was the first Underground Railroad? 44
What was the second Middle Passage? 46
How much did the cotton industry shape American history and the lives of enslaved Africans? 48
How much African ancestry does the average African American have? 51
Who originated the concept of the talented tenth black leadership class? 54
Who was the first African-American fighter pilot? 57
Did black people own slaves? If so, why? 60
How did Harriet Tubman become a legend? 65
When did black literature begin to address African-American sexuality? 69
Is most of what we believe about the Underground Railroad true? 73
Did Russia's Peter the Great adopt an African man as his son? 77
Were Alexander Pushkin's African roots important to him? 80
Was Jackie Robinson court-martialed? 84
What were the largest slave rebellions in America? 88
What were the biggest acts of betrayal within the enslaved community? 93
What is one of the most novel ways a slave devised to escape bondage? 98
Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? 102
Were there any successful slavery escapes by sea? 107
How was black support enlisted for World War II, when the armed services were segregated? 112
How did the Black Sambo memorabilia that is collected today come to be? 117
Who was Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case? 121
What is Juneteenth? 126
Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? 130
Did black combatants fight in the Battle of Gettysburg? 135
Before Emancipation, didn't most free blacks live in the northern half of America? 140
Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? 145
How did the son of a former slave defy the color bar to become a wealthy fixture of European nightlife during the Jazz Age? 149
Which massacre resulted in a Supreme Court decision limiting the federal government's ability to protect black Americans from racial targeting? 154
Which episode of racial violence destroyed the community known as the Black Wall Street? 159
How could integrating information about the fight for civil rights into K-12 curricula better educate our children and foster a real conversation on race? 164
Which civil rights leader and gay barrier-breaker was kept in the shadows by the civil rights movement establishment? 167
Did Martin Luther King, Jr., improvise in the Dream speech? 172
Which enslaved African managed to press his case for freedom all the way to the White House? 177
Who was history's wealthiest person? 182
Who was the first black poet in the Western world? 186
Who was the founder of Chicago? 190
What's the real story of the legendary mixed-race slave trader Joel Rogers called Mongo John? 194
How did the story of Solomon Northup, the author of Twelve Years a Slave, first become public? 199 54.

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Nakladateľ: Random House US
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Rok vydania: 2017
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Hardback
Počet strán: 496
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