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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- Who Were the African Americans in the Kennedy Administration?In the first six months of the Kennedy Administration, some 50 black men (and women) were appointed to executive branch jobs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
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