African-American history
Black American past
African-American history is the study of Black Americans' experiences from the slave trade through the present—their struggles, achievements, cultural contributions, and ongoing fight for equality.
The field emerged as a formal discipline in the early twentieth century, challenging narratives that marginalized or ignored Black perspectives.
February is African-American history month.
She's taking an African-American history course this semester.
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- segregationForced separation by group
- abolitionistsThose opposing human bondage
- Black PowerRacial pride movement
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
Malcolm X · civil rights · Black Lives Matter · emancipation · manumission · Ida B. Wells · slave narratives · Middle Passage · Frederick Douglass · W.E.B. Du Bois · Brown v. Board of Education · NAACP · reconstruction · Jim Crow laws · Great Migration · activism · Negro spirituals · Booker T. Washington