Crowder points out in an article in the December 1977 issue of the Western Journal of Black Studies, "it is no longer sufficient to devote the entire month to the celebration of great Negro contributions to the American mainstream." ... The month of February is significant and recognized in African American history for the birthdays of great African American pioneers and institutions. ... There are plenty of greatest african american people, for me was difficult choose only one biography do I decided to make a litlle biograpy of all ones that i considere inportant: Armstrong, Louis Danie...

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Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance; the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North to take advantage of employment opportunities created by World War I. ...

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., January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Michael (later Martin) Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams. ... My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher. ... He grew up in the middle of the Great Depression, and from a very young age it became a great concern to him, particularly when he saw the people standing in the breadlines. ... He commanded a great deal of respect (and sometimes fear) from the black community and as King believes also won "the grudging respect of...

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