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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- What Was the Second Middle Passage?The growth of the cotton economy and the internal slave trade in America forced families to separate and migrate once again.
- The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’Find out who came up with this promise to freed slaves after the Civil War, and how it fell through.
- Why Was Cotton ‘King’?Cotton not only ruled in the South, but had a great role in the Northern banking industry, New England factories and in Great Britain.
- Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?Robinson's struggle for equality began in the Army, before he integrated baseball.
- J. A. Rogers’ 100 Amazing Facts About the NegroHenry Louis Gates, Jr. describes the man who inspired his 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro series.
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