Famous people & Artists
Martin Luther King Jr.
known for his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. His most famous work is his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered in 1963.
Harlem Renaissance
The most significant movement in African American literary history, and the Harlem Renaissance of African American culture, especially in the creative arts.
Elijah McCoy
The lubrication systems for steam engines were devised by Canadian-American engineer of African-American origin, Elijah J. McCoy. And he even created an Oil-Drip Cup as well.
World War II
During World War II, over a million Africans fought for the colonial powers as carriers, laborers, and fighters; the majority of them were engaged by Britain, while the remainder served France and Belgium.
Who made the speech about "I have a Dream?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
A woman who refused to give to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. And she's also known as "The mother of Civil Rights."
Double V Campaign
Robinson was one of the 1.2 million African Americans who fought in the armed forces during the war and actively participated in the "Double V" campaign, which aimed to use the troops' wartime experience to combat racism in the United States and German antisemitism abroad.
George Washington Carver
Carver built an industrial research facility and an agriculture extension in Alabama, where he devoted his life to creating hundreds of novel plant applications. Carver found hundreds of uses for sweet potatoes, pecans, soybeans, and more than 300 uses for peanuts.
Vietnam War
About 300,000 African Americans served in the Vietnam War. American involvement in the Pacific War against Japan, as well as home pressure to oppose communism following the latter's triumph in the Chinese Civil War
Jazz Age Known for?
Also referred to as the Roaring Twenties, was mostly remembered as the Prohibition era. Speakeasies, or illegal bars, and organized crime increased as a result.
Dorothy Jean Dandridge
She was the first black African woman to be nominated for the best-actress Oscar and the first Black woman on the cover of Life magazine.
Civil Rights Movement
The American civil rights movement began in the middle of the 1950s and was a nationwide movement of public protest against racial discrimination and segregation in the country's southern states.
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Marie Van Brittan Brown, an African American inventor, created the first home security system, which made society a safer place. She invented the first closed-circuit television security system, which set the standard for today's sophisticated home security systems.
World War I
Over 2.5 million Africans, or more than 1% of the continent's total population, worked in some way related to War.
What is Ghosts of Mississippi about?
An Lawyer named Bobby DeLaughter takes stand for Medgar Evers and the Evers family making justice for African Americans because everyone's death matters.
Medgar Evers
He organized demonstrations and voter registration campaigns, attracted new members to the civil rights movement, and promoted school integration as the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. And even a movie was made about him and a lawyer getting his justice back because he was killed for speaking up for his people.
Jazz Age
Jazz is a new musical genre that was created by African-Americans in the South. Ragtime, blues, spirituals, work songs, and even military marches are the musical roots of jazz.
Garrett Morgan
Two of his most famous inventions were a kind of three-way traffic light and a protective "smoke hood," which was famously employed in a tunnel construction accident rescue in 1916.
Korean War
There were 600,000 Black soldiers in the U.S. armed forces at the conclusion. Over 5,000 people lost their lives to prevent communist forces from invading South Korea.
What Era when did African art spread all over?
Harlem Renaissance
Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis is recognized as the first BIPOC professional sculptor in the US and the first to win praise from around the world. Lewis used her art to beautifully and reverently tell the tales of women and Indigenous people, despite the fact that a large portion of her work has not lasted into the twenty-first century.
History of Fair Housing
When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it outlawed discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, or national origin in the financing, leasing, and selling of housing.
Percy Lavon Julian
Physostigmine, which was previously exclusively accessible from its natural source, the Calabar bean, was first made. His revolutionary research cleared the way for the widespread use of physostigmine as a glaucoma medication.
The Gulf War
Black soldiers made up around 25% of the American military in the Gulf War, and even closer to 30% in the Army. In comparison with Vietnam, the Gulf War had the United States fight as an all-volunteer force for the first time in over a century, with over 35,000 women serving as American soldiers in the Persian Gulf.
The Mother of Civil Rights?
Rosa Parks