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70 relations: Academy Awards, African Americans, Agricultural chemistry, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Baseball, Bethune–Cookman University, Biology, Black Enterprise, Blood bank, Blood plasma, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Broadway theatre, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Brown v. Board of Education, Calvert, Texas, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Cinema of the United States, City College of New York, Clark Atlanta University, Daisy Bates (activist), Delta Sigma Theta, Dermatology, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ernest Everett Just, Fair Employment Practice Committee, Fisk University, Fort Valley State University, General (United States), General Education Board, Grammy Award, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Howard University, Howard University College of Medicine, Jeanes Foundation, Joel Elias Spingarn, John Hope (educator), Johnson Publishing Company, Liberia, List of African-American firsts, List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders, List of mayors of Detroit, Little Rock Nine, Marc Connelly, Metropolitan Opera, Montgomery bus boycott, NAACP, National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, National Council of Negro Women, Native Son, ..., Negro Academy, Nicaragua, Palestine (region), Pan-African Congress, Reconstruction era, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Santo Domingo, Slater Fund, Supreme Court of the United States, The Crisis, The Emperor Jones, The Green Pastures, Tuskegee University, Uncle Tom's Children, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, United States federal judge, United States Senate, Venezuela, YMCA, YWCA. Expand index (20 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Agricultural chemistry
Agricultural chemistry is the study of both chemistry and biochemistry which are important in agricultural production, the processing of raw products into foods and beverages, and in environmental monitoring and remediation.
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Association for the Study of African American Life and History
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is an organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.
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Bethune–Cookman University
Bethune–Cookman University (B–CU), formerly Bethune–Cookman College (B–CC), is a private, co-ed, historically black university located in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.
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Biology
Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.
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Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise is a black-owned multimedia company.
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Blood bank
A blood bank is a center where blood gathered as a result of blood donation is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion.
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Blood plasma
Blood plasma is a yellowish coloured liquid component of blood that normally holds the blood cells in whole blood in suspension; this makes plasma the extracellular matrix of blood cells.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was, in 1925, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Calvert, Texas
Calvert is a city in Robertson County, Texas, United States.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is, by U.S. law, the highest-ranking and senior-most military officer in the United States Armed Forces 10 USC 152.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.
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Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Daisy Bates (activist)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
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Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community.
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Dermatology
Dermatology (from ancient Greek δέρμα, derma which means skin and λογία, logia) is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin, nails, hair and its diseases.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Ernest Everett Just
Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.
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Fair Employment Practice Committee
The Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) was created in 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work.", Our Documents, Executive Order 8802 dated June 25, 1941, General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives This was shortly before the United States entered World War II.
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Fisk University
Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley State University (FVSU) is a historically black university (HBCU) in Fort Valley, Georgia.
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General (United States)
In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, general (abbreviated as GEN in the Army or Gen in the Air Force and Marine Corps) is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10.
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General Education Board
The General Education Board was a philanthropy which was used primarily to support higher education and medical schools in the United States, and to help rural white and black schools in the South, as well as modernize farming practices in the South.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Housing and Home Finance Agency
The Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA) was responsible for the principal housing programs of the United States from 1947–1965.
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Howard University
Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
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Howard University College of Medicine
The Howard University College of Medicine (HUCM) is an academic division of Howard University, and grants the Doctor of Medicine (MD), Ph.D., MS, and the MPH.
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Jeanes Foundation
The Jeanes Foundation (also known as the Negro Rural School Fund) was founded by philanthropist Anna T. Jeanes of Philadelphia who was a Quaker.
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Joel Elias Spingarn
Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 – July 26, 1939) was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist.
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John Hope (educator)
John Hope (June 2, 1868 – February 22, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African American educator and political activist, the first African-descended president of both Morehouse College in 1906 and of Atlanta University in 1929, where he worked to develop graduate programs.
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Johnson Publishing Company
Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by businessman John H. Johnson.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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List of African-American firsts
African Americans (also known as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group in the United States.
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List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
This is a list of the top 300 Major League Baseball leaders in home runs hit.
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List of mayors of Detroit
This is a list of mayors of Detroit, Michigan.
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Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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Marc Connelly
Marcus Cook Connelly (13 December 1890 – 21 December 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses was a professional organization for African American nurses founded in 1908.
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National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
The National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington, D.C., United States, by a merger of the National Federation of African-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women of Washington, DC, at the call of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.
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National Council of Negro Women
The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is a non-profit organization with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African-American women, their families and communities.
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Native Son
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright.
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Negro Academy
The American Negro Academy (ANA) was the first organization in the United States to support African-American academic scholarship.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Palestine (region)
Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.
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Pan-African Congress
The Pan-African Congress — following on from the first Pan-African Conference of 1900 in London — was a series of seven meetings, held in 1919 in Paris (1st Pan-African Congress), 1921 in London (2nd Pan-African Congress), 1923 in London (3rd Pan-African Congress), 1927 New York City (4th Pan-African Congress), 1945 Manchester (5th Pan-African Congress), 1974 Dar es Salaam (6th Pan-African Congress), 1994 Kampala (7th Pan-African Congress), and 2014 Accra that were intended to address the issues facing Africa as a result of European colonization of most of the continent.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
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Slater Fund
The John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen was a financial endowment established in 1882 by John Fox Slater for education of African Americans in the Southern United States.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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The Crisis
The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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The Emperor Jones
The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
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The Green Pastures
The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford.
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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.
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Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of novellas and the first book published by African-American author Richard Wright, who went on to write Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953).
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
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United States federal judge
In the United States, the title of federal judge means a judge (pursuant to Article Three of the United States Constitution) appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate pursuant to the Appointments Clause in Article II of the United States Constitution.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), often simply called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.
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YWCA
The World Young Women's Christian Association (World YWCA) is a movement working for the empowerment, leadership and rights of women, young women and girls in more than 120 countries.
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