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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- What Was Black America’s Double War?The Double V Campaign demanded an end to segregation in the Armed Forces during World War II
- What Was America’s First Black Town?Spanish Florida was the African-American slaves’ first Promised Land.
- Free Blacks Lived in the North, Right?During slavery, why did free blacks stay in the South?
- 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.
- ’12 Years a Slave’: Trek From Slave to ScreenAs a literary scholar and cultural historian who has spent a lifetime searching out African Americans' lost, forgotten and otherwise unheralded tales, I was honored to serve as a historical consultant on Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," most certainly one of the most vivid and authentic portrayals of slavery ever captured in a feature film.
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