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    Enrichment Review: National Museum of African American History and Culture The tour begins with slavery in Africa, and then in the Americas. The most attention-grabbing artifact of is an 1800s-slave cabin from a plantation in South Carolina; but the most disheartening one is a lockable iron neck-ring, so small that clearly it only fit on a small child. Words speak loudly, too. A handwritten receipt confirms the sale of a teenage girl and “her future issue.” A full-scale modern sculpture of…

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    African American history plays a major part in American history. Not because any specific reason, but African Americans had to undergo a great deal as a race. The 1600s was presumably the most talked about period in African American history, which is when slavery was developed through this era African Americans endured slavery up until the 1800s. Of course there are important people or important events that we learned about in African American history, but some of the most important things are…

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    the Stono rebellion. Once the Stono rebellion ended sixty African Americans were executed without a trail, it is believed that some of these people did not participate in the rebellion in any way.…

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    represents met in Washington D.C. to form A National Labor Union for African Americans. Issac Meyers led this organization. Meyer was the son of freed slaved parents. He lived a Maryland which was primarily still considered a slaved state. Isaac parents valued education and made it a propriety for Isaac to be well educated. At the age of 20 Myers was supervising the caulking of clipper ships in Baltimore. In this time in history African Americans who were able to be a job where mistreated and…

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    Fredrick Douglass’s call for African American soldiers America was two years into the Civil War battles going back and forth and many causalities to go along with it. In the beginning of the Civil War northern refused black volunteers soldiers. As the causalities rose it pressured to allow the blacks to partake in the war. Once Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 black were started to get recruited to join the Union army. We will examine why Fredrick Douglass called out…

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    In American history, there have been multiple accounts of African American liberation groups. These groups have continued to pop up because they feel as though they are being repressed by the American government and society. They have been alienated from American society from the very beginning of American history. Africans were brought over to America as slaves for the European Americans. Life as a slave was brutal, and they had a very little…

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    Lewis Howard Latimer One of the most famous African Americans in history is Lewis Howard Latimer, he is most recognized for his invention of the light bulb, Latimer who was born on September 4, 1848 in in Chelsea, Massachusetts and died December 11, 1928 age 80 was a Inventor and engineer. But before the creation that changed the world he was the the son to George and Rebecca Latimer, and the youngest of four children. His parents were former slaves who escaped so their children can have a…

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    In this essay I am going to discuss a significant individual who had made is mark in African American history. This person goes by the name Mansa Musa. During the fourteenth century the emperor of Mali, Mansa Musa achieved greatness through so many of his actions. His contributions to Africa and to Mali are so widespread that he is known throughout the word.. Writers recorded Musa’s actions more than any other ruler meaning that Mansa Musa must have been an important king. Musa was even…

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    and oppressed Black people. The slaves acknowledged the fact that they were taken and stolen from their land and taken to another, against their will. And in this new land, they suffered the most brutal forms of mistreatment. For this reason, the African slaves always dreamt and hoped of returning back to their homeland and to their families. So, the slave masters brainwashed them. The slaves discreetly tried to preserve their customs and traditions because they weren’t allowed to. The best way…

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    Announces African American History Month Convocation Keynote speaker Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Baltimore, – Morgan State University President David Wilson today announced its African-American History Month, 2016 Convocation. Paying homage to the black lives and accomplishments of Parren J. Mitchell, former seventh congressional district of Maryland, U.S. congressman, from charm city and a graduate of MSU. As well as Benjamin A. Quarles, African-American historian, author and former MSU…

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