African American Highlights - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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African American Highlights -- Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Notable People

Louis Armstrong
Benjamin Banneker
George Washington Carver
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du Bois
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Phillis Wheatley

Topics

African American Newspapers before 1945
Antislavery Movement and Abolitionists
Hip-hop
Minstrel Shows
Negro Leagues Baseball
Ragtime
Rap
Tuskegee Airmen
Underground Railroad

Photo: Credit

Birmingham Black Barons, c. 2000. Wendy Phillips, photographer.

From Black : A Celebration of a Culture. Deborah Willis, author. St. Martin's Press, 2004.

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