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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- 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.
- Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?Robinson's struggle for equality began in the Army, before he integrated baseball.
- Cory Booker and the First Black SenatorsThe senators in power after the Civil War had to settle a fundamental question when it came to seating Hiram R. Revels, the first black senator-elect, in 1870: Was it too soon, according to the Constitution, for any black man to be legally entitled to serve?
- 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.
- 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.
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