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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- 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.
- 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.
- Who Really Invented the ‘Talented Tenth’?Who originated the concept of the "Talented Tenth" black leadership class?
- Should Blacks Collect Racist Memorabilia?Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes a case for saving racist imagery that worked in tandem with Jim Crow laws.
- 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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