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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- Which Slave Sailed Himself to Freedom?Robert Smalls made a daring sea escape during the Civil War and went on to serve five terms in Congress.
- 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.
- What Was the Civil Rights Movement?A report shows too few U.S. high-schoolers know about the Civil Rights movement.
- The Black Governor Who Was Almost a SenatorWhy didn't more than one black person serve in the Senate during the Reconstruction era -- a condition that persisted until this year?
- What Was America’s First Black Town?Spanish Florida was the African-American slaves’ first Promised Land.
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