This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. ... He was a guide and translator with a French expedition led by Pierre de Gua, Sieur du Monts. ... He arrived in New France in 1628 and was sold to a colonist. ... As the colony of New France grew the demand of field, workers and servants did as well and in the year 1689 King Louis 12 of France allowed settlers to use slaves. In the early 1600's, British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Swe...

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Maya Angelou: Still I Rise Maya Angelo was quoted in an article in Essence: African American Politicians Interviews, as saying " The power that I have first comes directly from being a descendent of people whose powerful history makes me humble. ... She is also fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and West African Fanti. ... She begins in stanza one with "You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. ... Carter Godwin Woodson to lead the struggle and search for the truth and institutionalize what was then referred to as "Negro History Week". ... Under Woodson's direction and contributions from other African American and white scholars, the "Negro History Week" was launched on a serious platform in ...

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ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin was committed "to end the racial nightmare of our country and change the history of the world" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 15). ... The 1948 trip to France marked the beginning of his career as an expatriate writer, and while his writing often returned to American subjects, he was based abroad for most of the next 40 years. In Paris, though he lived as a struggling artist...

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Du Bois is a descendant of African American, French, and Dutch ancestors. ... After he became a professor of economics and history at Atlanta University in 1897, he initiated a series of studies as head of the school's Negro Problem program. These works had a major impact on the study of the history and sociology of blacks living in the United States. ... In addition to the previously mentioned titles, he wrote Africa "Its Place in Modern History (1930); Black Reconstruction in the South (1935); Black Folk Then and Now (1939); a trilogy, called Black Flame, which included The...

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The African- American Community has been blessed with a multitude of scholars. Two of those scholars include Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du bois. Both of these men, had a vision for African- Americans. They wanted to see the advancement of their race of people. These great leaders just had diff...

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James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in the year 1902. Born into an abolitionist family, he was the great nephew of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes started writing poetry in the eighth grade at Central High Schoo...

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Maya Angelou, award-winning author of many books, is one of the most influential African Americans in American history, and lives a life far from typical. ... Angeleou grew up in a tough time in the American history. ... She also learned many different languages, including, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the West African language Fanti. ...

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The definitive intention is lost in history, with the definitive plan of the unique pieces known just to the experts who cut them. ... Not just the ladies wore these favor gems, men frequently wore cameos in distinctive times in history. ... France turned into a cameo focus throughout the renaissance period. ...

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Not only did the UNIA represent the largest mass movement in African American history, but with Garvey's vision, it also helped to inspire peoples of African descent around the globe to embrace a sense of pride in their shared African heritage. ... Just as it had been done by France's revolutionaries in the French Revolution. Just as it had been done against Germany during World War I by America, England, and France all together, allowing these countries to have the peace they had already individually gained. ...

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Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Move...

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In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea, and later to Italy, France, Russia and Spain. ... Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black History Week in 1926. ...

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Never before and again in the history of the Harlem Renaissance, so many leading figures of this period came together to write for the rights of the black population in America. ... Another step backwards in the history of human rights for blacks was reached, when the erosion of the rights they had achieved under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Reconstruction Acts were denied by the southern government. ...

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Never in the bible are we encouraged to imagine that conspiracy is the grand explanation of history or the overarching issue of causality in human affairs. ... Conspiracy theories (rumors, myths, urban legends) have a long history throughout the world. ... The freedom domain website documents the history of conspiracies as far back as 1090 AD with the formation of Christianity and the first recorded secret society known as the Essenes. According to the freedom domain website, in the 18th century, Masons, who later converted to Illuminati, sole purpose was to secretly create a one world gov...

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While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their culture and history. ...

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