Portal:African American
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African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are citizens of the United States who have total or partial antebellum ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.[1] Specifically, most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present-day U.S.[1][2] Template:/box-footerTemplate:/box-header Template:/Selected article/3 Template:/box-footer  "The men in this picture are from Company E, 4th United States Colored Infantry. Theirs was one of the detachments assigned to guard the nation's capital during the American Civil War", c. 1864
Portal:Contents/Portals#Culture_and_the_arts We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
—Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950),
"The Celebration of Negro History Week", Journal of Negro History (April 1927) Template:/box-header Template:/Selected biography/5 Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header Template:/Did you know/2 Template:/box-footer |
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