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Start ExploringFighting for freedom, preserving African heritage
From the early 1500s, enslaved Africans in Venezuela worked in mining and agriculture, escaped to build their own communities, rose up at Coro in 1795, and sustained African traditions that their descendants continue to defend.
Kittie Knox's experience with racial discrimination and her efforts to continue participating in the sport.
Kittie Knox joined the League of American Wheelmen in 1893. When the league restricted new membership to white people the next year, her eligibility was questioned, and she kept presenting her credentials and riding.
During the 19th and 20th centuries: the businesses they developed and the opportunities they created for their communities.
Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Robert Reed Church Sr., Annie Turnbo Malone, and Madam C. J. Walker built fortunes in finance, real estate, and hair care despite discrimination, then used their resources to support education, employment, and community institutions.
Black History 101 goes beyond historical trivia. Each visual essay starts with a question, claim, or myth and follows the evidence—using historical scholarship to make complicated history accessible without watering it down.
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