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unusual facts about Black American



Demographics of Dallas

The southern and southeastern areas of the city, especially Pleasant Grove and South Dallas, are predominately black.

Vernon Baker

Baker was the only living black American World War II veteran of the seven belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor when it was bestowed upon him by President Bill Clinton in 1997.


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African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

Ammi and his followers draw on a long tradition in black American culture (see Black Hebrew Israelites) which holds that black Americans are the descendants of the Ancient Israelites (Ammi cites Charles Harrison Mason of Mississippi, William Saunders Crowdy of Virginia, Bishop William Boome of Tennessee, Charles Price Jones of Mississippi and Elder Saint Samuel of Tennessee as early exponents of black descent from Israelites).

Augustus Granville Dill

After Reconstruction, the two prevailing schools of thought regarding education and labor of the black American were those espoused by W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.

Charles Lampkin

The centerpiece of the Charles Lampkin lecture platform was the Black American classic (whose status he helped secure) The Creation from the imaginative sermon series of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones.

Conrad Hunte

The defining experience of his life was when in 1961, on the West Indies' tour of Australia, he saw the film The Crowning Experience, about the life of the black American educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

Indorock

Being ethnically Indonesian and playing black American music to white audiences in the Netherlands and Germany, their music exemplifies the complex background of the style, which, according to George Lipsitz, is shaped by "the histories of Dutch and U.S. military combat in Asia and Europe" and by the "internalized racial histories of the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany".

Linda Goodman

She also wrote speeches for black American civil rights leader Whitney Young, who served for several years as president of the National Urban League.

The BAP Handbook: The Official Guide to the Black American Princess

The BAP Handbook: The Official Guide to the Black American Princess is a book written by Kalyn Johnson, Tracey Lewis, Karla Lightfoot, and Ginger Wilson, and published by Broadway Books.

Whitesboro-Burleigh, New Jersey

Whitesboro was founded about 1901 by the Equitable Industrial Association, which had prominent black American investors including Paul Laurence Dunbar, the educator Booker T. Washington and George Henry White, the leading investor and namesake.

William Greaves

Also in the same year, he was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and received a special homage at the first Black American Independent Film Festival in Paris.