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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.
- What Was America’s First Black Town?Spanish Florida was the African-American slaves’ first Promised Land.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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