100 amazing facts about the Negro
Item details
- ISBN: 9780307908711
- ISBN: 0307908712
- ISBN: 9780307908728
- ISBN: 0307908720
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Physical Description:
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xii, 476 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? -- 2. How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? -- 3. Who was the first African to arrive in America -- 4. Who was the first black saint? -- 5. Who was the first black president in North America? -- 6. Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? -- 7. Who was the first black explorer of the North American Southwest? -- 8. Which slave literally wrote his way to freedom? -- 9. What was the first black town in North America? -- 10. Who was George Washington's runaway slave? -- 11. Who was the first black person in the United States to lead a "back to Africa" effort? -- 12. Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus? -- 13. Where was the first black town in what is now the United States? -- 14. What happened to the "forty acres and a mule" that former slaves were promised? -- 15. Were slaves actually eaten by dogs? -- 16. Where was the first Underground Railroad? -- 17. What was the second Middle Passage? -- 18. How much did the cotton industry shape American history and the lives of enslaved Africans? -- 19. How much African ancestry does the average African American have? -- 20. Who originated the concept of the "talented tenth" black leadership class? -- 21. Who was the first African-American fighter pilot? -- 22. Did black people own slaves? If so, why? -- 23. How did Harriet Tubman become a legend? -- 24. When did black literature begin to address African-American sexuality? -- 25. Is most of what we believe about the Underground Railroad true? -- 26. Did Russia's Peter the Great adopt an African man as his son? -- 27. Were Alexander Pushkin's African roots important to him? -- 28. Was Jackie Robinson court-martialed? -- 29. What were the largest slave rebellions in America? -- 30. What were the biggest acts of betrayal within the enslaved community? -- 31. What is one of the most novel ways a slave devised to escape bondage? -- 32. Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history?-- 33. Were there any successful slavery escapes by sea? -- 34. How was black support enlisted for World War II, when the armed services were segregated? -- 35. How did the Black Sambo memorabilia that is collected today come to be? -- 36. Who was Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case? -- 37. What is Juneteenth? -- 38. Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? -- 39. Did black combatants fight in the Battle of Gettysburg? -- 40. Before Emancipation, didn't most free blacks live in the northern half of America? -- 41. Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? -- 42. How did the son of a former slave defy the color bar to become a wealthy fixture of European nightlife during the Jazz Age? -- 43. Which massacre resulted in a Supreme Court decision limiting the federal government's ability to protect black Americans from racial targeting? -- 44. Which episode of racial violence destroyed the community known as the "Black Wall Street"? -- 45. How could integrating information about the fight for civil rights into K-12 curricula better to educate our children and foster a real conversation on race? -- 46. Which civil rights leader and gay barrier-breaker was kept in the shadows by the civil rights movement establishment? -- 47. Did Martin Luther King, Jr., improvise in the "Dream" speech? -- 48. Which enslaved African managed to press his case for freedom all the way to the White House? -- 49. Who was history's wealthiest person? -- 50. Who was the first black poet in the Western world? -- 51. Who was the founder of Chicago? -- 52. What's the real story of the legendary mixed-race slave trader Joel Rogers called "Mongo John"? -- 53. How did the story of Solomon Northup, the author of Twelve Years a Slave, first become public? -- 54. Who was the first black man to serve in the U.S. Senate? -- 55. Which black governor was almost a senator? -- 56. Which regiment of black soldiers returning after World War I received a hero's welcome in New York City? -- 57. Who were the African Americans in the Kennedy administration? -- 58. When did African-American women hit their stride in professional achievement? -- 59. Who were the black passengers on the doomed Titanic voyage? -- 60. Which former slave became a deputy U.S. marshal and a renowned symbol of law and order in the wild west? -- 61. Who were the black people killed in the raid on Harpers Ferry? -- 62. What myth of eternal youth in Africa inspired Europeans for centuries? -- 63. How did black soldiers come to fight in the American Civil War? -- 64. Which black man engaged a Founding Father in a debate about racial equality? -- 65. How were Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela linked? -- 66. Did Lincoln really free the slaves? -- 67. How did Black History Month come into being? -- 68. What was the original color of the mythical beauty Andromeda? -- 69. How often were enslaved Americans about to tell their stories? -- 70. What started the black newspaper industry in America? -- 71. What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? -- 72. Who was the first American-born black person to draw crowds using sleight of hand -- and voice? -- 73. Who was the first black actor to play the role of Shakespeare's tortured Moor? -- 74. Who was the patron saint of African slaves and their descendants? -- 75. Was a black slave to blame for the Salem witch trials? -- 76. What's the truth about many African-American families having a Native American ancestor? -- 77. Which pioneering play introduced mainstream American audiences to the dynamics undergirding the civil rights movement? -- 78. What role did Lord Mansfield's mixed-race great-niece, Dido Elizabeth Belle, play in his famous decision on slavery in England? -- 79. Who was the first African-American writer to investigate and report the wrongdoings of a world leader? -- 80. Who were the first notable African Americans who stepped into America's institutions of higher learning? -- 81. What was Freedom's Fort, and how does it relate to Memorial Day? -- 82. Which French general under Napol̕eon had African ancestry and was a forebear to two French literary greats? -- 83. Which famous nineteenth-century French author had African ancestry? -- 84. Which Zula king led his men to victory over British invaders and mounted warfare that killed a French "prince"? -- 85. Why was the summer of 1964 pivotal in the fight for civil rights? -- 86. Which civil rights warrior received numerous telephone calls from the U.S. president during the fight to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? -- 87. What happened to Argentina's black population? -- 88. Which event in black history took place in what is now Iraq? -- 89. Did black people engage in piracy during its heyday in the Americas? -- 90. How did the shattering of the color barrier for Rhodes scholarships forever change the black arts movements? -- 91. Which black female poet owned a garden house that became a popular home-away-from-home down south for the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance? -- 92. When President Abraham Lincoln met with free black leaders in 1862, what did he propose? -- 93. Which black justices broke the color barrier at the federal court level? -- 94. Who buried the war dead from the Battle of Gettysburg? -- 95. What did Malcolm X do at Oxford University? -- 96. Which black man made many of our favorite household products better? -- 97. Which twentieth-century black actor played roles of all races during a time when Hollywood had few roles for black actors? -- 98. Who were the first black boxing champions? -- 99. Who were the key scholars responsible for the discipline of black history? -- 100. What are the most important facts to know about American slavery? |
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