African-American history

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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.

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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 → Historically Black Colleges and Universities → National Association for the Advancement of Colored People → Southern Christian Leadership Conference → Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee →
includesPeriod	Black Power movement → Civil Rights Movement → Great Migration → Harlem Renaissance → 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 → 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 → 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 (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Addie Mae Collins ("African American history") → Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall →	partOf
Fairmount Heights, Maryland ("African-American history of Maryland") →	category
Old Wallville School ("African American history of Maryland") →	isPartOf