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Abstract: Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American history. An overview of major biographical figures and history-making events is followed by a deeper look at the development in the arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, music, government, journalism, religion, science, sports, and more. Mimicking the a broad range of the African American experience, showcasing interesting insights and facts, this helpful reference answers a wide variety of questions including What is the significance of the Apollo Theater? What were the effects of the Great Depression on black artists? Who were some of Americas early free black entrepreneurs? What is the historical role of the barbershop in the African American community? and What was Black Wall Street? Blending trivia with historical review in an engaging question-and-answer format, this book is perfect for browsing and is ideal for history buffs, trivia fans, students and teachers and anyone interested in a better and more thorough understanding of history of black Americans
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Noted author, scholar, educator, and librarian Jessie Carney Smith is Dean of the Library and William and Camille Cosby Professor in the Humanities at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. She is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, Michigan State University, and Vanderbilt University, and she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
In addition to the first and second editions of Black Firsts, her Visible Ink publications are Black Heroes and, with Linda T. Wynn, Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience. Other important works that she has written or edited include Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture (3 volumes), Notable Black American Women (Books I, II, and III), Notable Black American Men (Books I and II), Encyclopedia of African American Business (2 volumes), African American Almanac (8th edition), Ethnic Genealogy, and Black Academic Libraries and Research Collections.
Dr. Smith has been honored widely with recognitions such as the National Womens Book Association Award; the Candace Award for excellence in education; the Anna J. Cooper Award for research on African American women from Sage magazine; the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries; the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and the Research Career Award from Fisk University.
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Cover images: Front cover: Serena William-Shutterstock; Barak Obama-Library of Congress; Civil Rights March (background)-Library of Congress; Tuskegee Airmen-Library of Congress. Back cover: Tuskegee Airmen (U.S. Air Force); Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (Knight Foundation); Chicago American Giants (Library of Congress); Condoleezza Rice (U.S. government).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Jessie Carney, 1930
Handy African American history answer book /Jessie Carney Smith.
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ISBN 978-1-57859-452-8 (pbk.)
1. African Americans-History-Miscellanea. 2. African Americans-Biography-Miscellanea. I. Title.
E185.S5814 2013
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| Year | Event |
| 1526 | The first recorded slave revolt in North American occurs, after Spanish explorers bring Africans to what is now South Carolina. |
| 1620 | By this time, musical styles and forms of entertainment of the black enslaved begin to take various forms. |
| 1700s | Free blacks are involved in the fashion industry, when Stephen Jackson makes hats of fur and leather. The industry carries over into slavery. |
| 1701 | The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), headquartered in London, makes its first sustained effort to convert African Americans to Christianity. The SPG is a missionary movement that systematically seeks to evangelize and teach slaves. |
| 1746 | Lucy Terry (Prince), a slave and orator, writes the poem Bars Fight and becomes the first black American poet. It is not published until 1855. |
| 1758 | The independent black churches founded in Colonial America are Baptist. The first black Baptist church known to have begun during his period is the African Baptist or Bluestone Church. It is organized this year on William Byrds plantation located near Blue-stone River in Mecklenburg, Virginia. |
| 1760 | Poet and tract writer Jupiter Hammon is the first black to publish a poem as a separate work. He is also the first black American writer of prose. |
| 1770 | Crispus Attucks becomes the first black casualty in the American Revolution. |
| 1770s | Negro spirituals, or religious songs that black Americans sang since their enslavement in America, emerge during this time. |
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