black history
Record of darkness
Black history is the study and documentation of African American experiences, achievements, and contributions throughout history.
The term emphasizes recovering narratives often marginalized in mainstream historical accounts: The course covered black history from the transatlantic slave trade to the civil rights movement. (Capitalized Black History typically refers to Black History Month.)
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- African American literatureWriting by Black Americans
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
- Tuskegee AirmenPioneering African American aviators
- JuneteenthEmancipation anniversary celebration
Ida B. Wells · Martin Luther King Jr. · Frederick Douglass · Reconstruction Era · Jim Crow laws · Underground Railroad · Emancipation Proclamation · colored troops · Thurgood Marshall · Sojourner Truth · Negro spirituals · freedom songs · soul food · natural hair · W.E.B. Du Bois · Freedom Summer · slavery · African diaspora
- HBCUsHoward University, Morehouse College, Tuskegee University, Howard, Tuskegee
- Black Literatureslave narratives, Harlem Renaissance, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin
- school segregationschool segregation, desegregation, school desegregation, school integration, de facto segregation
- AfrocentrismAfrocentrism, cultural reclamation, ancestral wisdom, ancestral knowledge
- historiographyhistoriography, historiographer, secondary sources, historical interpretation, historical analysis
black historyEuropean history
Record of the continent's past
Western history · colonial history · Asian history · Native American history
black historyofficial history
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