Category

Civil Rights

• Bayard Rustin

  American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

• Fannie Lou Hamer

  American civil rights activist (1917–1977)

• Frederick Douglass

  African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

• Ida B. Wells

  American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

• Josephine Baker

  American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

• Paul Robeson

  American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

• Rosa Parks

  civil rights activist

• Thurgood Marshall

  Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)

• W. E. B. Du Bois

  American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

• Zora Neale Hurston

  African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

• The Abolition Movement

  movement to end slavery in the United States

• The American Revolution and Black Patriots

  (no Wikidata description — needs a real one-line summary)

• The Antebellum Era

  Historical period in the American South

• The Black Panther Party

  US black power organization (1966–1982)

• The Black Power Movement

  political and social movement and ideology

• The Black Lives Matter Movement / Contemporary Civil Rights

  social movement originating in the USA

• Buffalo Soldiers

  African American regiments of the US Army created 1866, the first black regulars in peacetime

• The Civil Rights Movement

  1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

• The Civil War and Emancipation

  1861–1865 civil war in the United States between the North and the South over the enslavement of African-Americans

• The Great Depression and Black America

  severe economic crisis in the USA in the 1930s

• The Great Migration

  movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States

• The Nadir / Jim Crow Era

  era between emancipation and the civil rights movement, characterized by the Jim Crow laws

• The Pan-Africanism Movement

  worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent

• Reconstruction Era

  era after American Civil War (1865–1877)

• Slavery in Colonial America

  slavery in the historic kingdoms of England's and Great Britain's American colonies prior to U.S. independence

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

  slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean during the early modern period (late 15th century to the early 19th century)

• The Tuskegee Airmen

  African-American military pilots during World War II

• The Underground Railroad Era

  network of secret routes & safehouses in 19th-century U.S. used by slaves to find freedom

• World War II and the Double V Campaign

  black American campaign to promote democracy and civil rights

• African Burial Ground National Monument

  national monument in New York City

• African Meeting House

  church building in Boston, United States of America

• American Beach

  unincorporated community in Florida

• Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

  National Historic Site of the United States in Topeka, Kansas

• Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church

  church building in Alabama, United States of America

• Ebenezer Baptist Church

  church in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• Edmund Pettus Bridge and Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail

  Historic bridge in Selma, Alabama, United States

• Fort Monroe National Monument

  former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, United States

• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

  preserves the Washington, D.C. home and estate of Frederick Douglass

• Greenwood / Black Wall Street

  human settlement in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

  2,500 acres at confluence of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland (US) managed by the National Park Service

• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

  National Historical Park of the United States in Maryland

• The Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice

  National memorial in Montgomery, Alabama that commemorates the victims of lynching in the United States

• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

  historic school in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

• Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park

  heritage site in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

  hotel that was site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., now a museum

• Nicodemus National Historic Site

  National Historic Site, African-American museum and open-air museum in Graham County, Kansas

• 16th Street Baptist Church and Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument

  church in Birmingham, Alabama

• Sweet Auburn Historic District

  neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia

• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

  museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Kingdom of Ndongo and Matamba

  which preceded Portuguese rule