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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?Robinson's struggle for equality began in the Army, before he integrated baseball.
- What Is Juneteenth?What is Juneteenth and why are 42 states and the District of Columbia celebrating it this year?
- Who Designed the March on Washington?Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights leader who was kept in the shadows by the Civil Rights movement establishment.
- Who Led the First Back-to-Africa Effort?Paul Cuffee, perhaps the wealthiest black American of his time, led a Back-to-Africa effort in the early 1800s.
- Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters?These black soldiers returning from World War I received a hero’s welcome, by blacks and whites alike, in New York City.
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