10 Facts About African-American history

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African-American history began with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Originally, a majority of the future slaves came from these villages and societies once they were sent to the Americas and enslaved, these different peoples had European standards and beliefs forced upon them, causing them to do away with tribal differences and forge a new African-American history and culture that was a creolization of their common past, present, and European culture.

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3.

Approximately 5000 free African-American history men helped the American Colonists in their struggle for freedom.

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4.

African-American history worked with white politicians from his region in order to hopefully help his fellow African Americans and other minority groups such as Chinese immigrants and Native Americans.

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5.

African-American history even supported efforts to end restrictions on former Confederates' political participation.

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6.

African-American history's described most Southern Black people who made worked as sharecroppers as living under a system very close to slavery.

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7.

Farmville, Virginia, in Prince Edward County, was one of the plaintiff African-American communities involved in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision.

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8.

African-American history won overwhelming support from African-American voters in the Democratic primaries, even as his main opponent Hillary Clinton had the support of many Black politicians.

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9.

African-American history's was elected vice president in the 2020 United States presidential election.

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10.

African-American history popularized Black history with a variety of innovative strategies, including the Association for the Study of Negro Life outreach activities, Negro History Week, and a popular Black history magazine.

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