African-American history

E78162

academic discipline field of history subfield of United States history

African-American history is the chronicle of the experiences, struggles, and contributions of people of African descent in the United States, encompassing slavery, emancipation, civil rights movements, and ongoing cultural and political influence.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
African-American history canonical	4
African American history	3
African-American history of Maryland	2
African American history in the United States	1
African American history of Maryland	1
African American intellectual history	1
African-American history of North Carolina	1
Black History	1
United States civil rights history	1

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic discipline ⓘ field of history ⓘ subfield of United States history ⓘ
documentedIn	autobiographies ⓘ legal records ⓘ newspapers ⓘ oral histories ⓘ scholarly monographs ⓘ slave narratives ⓘ
focusesOn	people of African descent in the United States ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	United States culture ⓘ United States law ⓘ United States politics ⓘ global discussions of race and civil rights ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Barack Obama ⓘ Booker T. Washington ⓘ Frederick Douglass ⓘ Harriet Tubman ⓘ Ida B. Wells ⓘ Malcolm X ⓘ Marcus Garvey ⓘ Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ Rosa Parks ⓘ Sojourner Truth ⓘ Thurgood Marshall ⓘ W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ
hasKeyInstitution	Black churches in the United States ⓘ HBCUs ⓘ surface form: Historically Black Colleges and Universities NAACP ⓘ surface form: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Southern Christian Leadership Conference ⓘ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ⓘ
includesPeriod	Black Power movement ⓘ American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: Civil Rights Movement Great Migration of African Americans out of the region ⓘ surface form: Great Migration Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Jim Crow laws ⓘ surface form: Jim Crow era Reconstruction era ⓘ post–civil rights era ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ
includesTheme	African-American activism ⓘ African-American culture ⓘ African-American economic life ⓘ African-American education ⓘ African-American intellectual history ⓘ African American literature ⓘ surface form: African-American literature African-American military service ⓘ African-American music ⓘ African-American political participation ⓘ African-American religious life ⓘ African-American visual arts ⓘ civil rights ⓘ emancipation ⓘ racial discrimination ⓘ racial violence ⓘ segregation ⓘ slavery ⓘ voting rights ⓘ
relatedToEvent	American Civil War ⓘ Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ Emancipation Proclamation ⓘ March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ⓘ Montgomery bus boycott ⓘ Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ⓘ surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson Atlantic slave trade ⓘ surface form: Transatlantic slave trade Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
studiedBy	African-American studies scholars ⓘ historians ⓘ
taughtIn	schools in the United States ⓘ universities worldwide ⓘ

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall → partOf → African-American history ⓘ

Addie Mae Collins → partOf → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African American history

Fairmount Heights, Maryland → category → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African-American history of Maryland

Old Wallville School → isPartOf → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African American history of Maryland

Roots → mainTheme → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African American history

Horace Cayton → partOf → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African American intellectual history

eastern Mississippi → hasCulturalHeritage → African-American history ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Mississippi

this entity surface form: African American history

Greenwood District → subjectOf → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: United States civil rights history

“The Town That Freedom Built” → associatedWith → African-American history ⓘ

subject surface form: The Town That Freedom Built

"I Question America" → associatedWith → African-American history ⓘ

subject surface form: I Question America

this entity surface form: African American history in the United States

North Brentwood Historic District → category → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African-American history of Maryland

McKissick → associatedWith → African-American history ⓘ

TV series "Godfather of Harlem" → hasSubject → African-American history ⓘ

subject surface form: Godfather of Harlem

PRhyme 2 → hasTrack → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black History

Jibreel Khazan → partOf → African-American history ⓘ

this entity surface form: African-American history of North Carolina