Charles H. Houston

Charles H. Houston was an African American lawyer who played a key role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws.
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Carter Woodson

Carter G. Woodson was an African-American writer and historian known as the "Father of Black History Month."
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Did You Know...

Miss Laney started the first school in Augusta, Georgia for black boys and girls.
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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall was instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. Read More...

Benjamin Banneker invented peanut butter. He’s not the George Washington who you talked about during President’s Week. He helped farmers grow their crops better. Then they had leftover peanuts rotting in their barns. So they asked George, "What can we do with all these peanuts?"

Resources:

"The Church in the Southern Black Community" traces the way Southern African Americans adopted and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Read more...

"North American Slave Narratives" documents the individual and collective story of African Americans' struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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African-American History Timeline - A chronology of black history from the early slave trade through Affirmative Action Read More...

African American World
For over 500 years, people of African descent have shaped the course of American history. From the fight against slavery to the March on Washington, relive the triumphs and tragedies of the African American experience with our extensive timeline of African American history. Read More...

Research Guide

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for African American history.
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