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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- 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.
- Madam Walker, the First Black American Woman to Be a Self-Made MillionaireMadam C.J. Walker, the first black millionairess in America, invented the world's first hair-straightening formula.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
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