by BlackPastAdmin | May 25, 2009 | African American History, Primary Documents
Antilynching Bill 67th Congress, 2nd Session, Report No. 837 April 20 (calendar day July 28), 1922—Ordered to be printed. AN ACT To assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching. Be it...
by BevertonAlys | May 23, 2009 | Global African History, Groups & Organizations
Recaptives, or Liberated Africans, were slaves freed by the British Royal Navy, which intercepted illegal slaving ships leaving Africa after the 1808 Act of Parliament ended the British slave trade. Although the slave trade had officially ended, the enterprise was so...
by MacDonaldMeg | May 23, 2009 | African American History, People
Entrepreneur Robert Bogle was the first of many African American caterers who served nineteenth-century Philadelphia’s white elite. Born in 1774, the 1810 federal census shows Bogle and five members of his family in Philadelphia’s South Ward, where the...
by CarrTaylor | May 22, 2009 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Harlem Globetrotters have gained worldwide recognition for combining their basketball playing skills with comedic tricks and stunts. Over the past eight decades the Globetrotters have competed in more than 20,000 games in over 100 countries. The Harlem...
by ColePeter | May 22, 2009 | African American History, People
Benjamin Fletcher, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1890, was the most important African American in the most influential radical union of his time, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Fletcher became active in the IWW while working as a longshoreman,...
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