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91African American literature — is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reaching early high points with slave… …
92Edmund Ruffin — (January 5, 1794 ndash; June 18, 1865) was born in Prince George County, Virginia. He was a descendant of William Randolph, the progenitor of the Randolph family. Ruffin was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political… …
93John Grenier — John Edward Grenier (August 24, 1930 ndash; November 6, 2007) was a Birmingham attorney and a pioneer in the development of the modern Republican Party in the U.S. state of Alabama. Grenier was a former litigator for Lange Simpson Robinson… …
94Chatham Manor — Coordinates: 38°18′31.8″N 77°27′19.3″W / 38.308833°N 77.455361°W / 38.308833; 77.455361 …
95Bartow High School — Bartow High School, formerly Summerlin Institute is the only high school located in Bartow, Florida. The school is also the location of the International Baccalaureate School at Bartow High, a school which annually finishes in the top five in… …
96Lucy Delaney — Lucy Ann Delaney Lucy Ann Delaney, born Lucy Berry (c. 1830 – after 1891), was an African American author, former slave, and activist, notable for her 1891 narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom. This is the only… …
97John Dixon Long — (September 26, 1817 ndash; 1894) was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist. His 1857 book, Pictures of Slavery in Church and State , was influential in abolitionist circles.Long was born in New Town,… …
98Hypodescent — is the practice of determining the lineage of a child of mixed race ancestry by assigning the child the race of his or her more socially subordinate parent. Because Caucasians were generally socially dominant in the Western world, mixed race… …
99New York Life Insurance Company — Type Mutual Industry Insurance: Life Annuity Founded 1845 …
100South Carolina during the American Revolution — Prior to the American Revolution, the British began taxing American colonies to raise revenue. South Carolinia residents were outraged about the 1767 Townshend Acts that taxed tea, paper, wine, glass, and oil. To protest the earlier (1765) Stamp… …
