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51African-American organized crime — Although a minority during the 19th and early 20th centuries, African American organized crime first began to emerge following large scale migrations of Caribbean and African Americans to major cities of the Northeast and Midwest. In many of… …
52African-American gospel music — While absorbing American Protestant religious music, African Americans molded it to fit their own needs. In the process, they created a unique and influential art form that has influenced religious music around the world. The spirituals… …
53African American musical theater — Early History= Before the late 1890s, the image portrayed of African Americans on Broadway was a secondhand vision of black life created by European American performers. [Woll, 1.] Stereotyped coon songs were popular, and blackface was… …
54African American Museum (New York) — The African American Museum also known as the African American Museum of Nassau County, which opened in 1970, is dedicated to showcasing local and national African American artists. The 6,000 sq. ft. facility is operated by the Museum Services… …
55African American theatre — Black playwrights and managers were precious few in the United States before 1880, despite the brief triumph of the African Grove Theatre in New York in 1821, at which everything from Shakespeare s plays to new works by black writers provided… …
56African American National Biography Project — The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press. Editors are Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The… …
57African American Civil War Memorial — Infobox protected area name = African American Civil War Memorial iucn category = caption = locator x = locator y = location = Washington, D.C., USA nearest city = lat degrees = 38 lat minutes = 54 lat seconds = 59 lat direction = N long degrees …
58African-American Film Critics Association — The African American Film Critics Association is a group of African American film critics that give awards for excellence in film at the end of each year.Founded in 2003, by journalists Gil Robertson IV and Shawn Edwards, the association is… …
59African American Civil War Memorial — Das African American Civil War Memorial an der Ecke zu Vermont Avenue und U Street Corridor in Washington, D.C. gedenkt der 209.145 afroamerikanischen Soldaten und Matrosen, die auf Seiten der Union im Sezessionskrieg kämpften. Die Gedenkstätte… …
60African American Museum in Philadelphia — The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) opened in 1976 in celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was the first major museum in the country devoted specifically to African… …
