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Was the Father of Russian Lit a Brother?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About…
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Slavery and Finding an Ancestral Name
(The Root) — The search for African-American ancestors can be complicated by the fact that some of our slave ancestors took as their last names the surnames of their masters when they were freed in 1865, but not all did, and over time, the spellings of these names changed phonetically. In fact, some informally inherited…
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Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About…
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Adopted in Louisiana and Looking for Kin?
(The Root) — The search for family roots takes on a special intensity for individuals who were adopted and don’t know their birth parents. Find out why this woman’s husband doesn’t feel like a “free black man in America.” “I am writing you with hope in my heart that you could assist us locating my husband’s roots. My husband…
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Did Peter the Great Have a Black Son?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About…
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Who Really Ran the Underground Railroad?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Facts About the Negro: No. 24:…
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Why Richard Wright Hated Zora Neale Hurston
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. This column was originally published on March 18, 2013.…
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How Did Harriet Tubman Become a Legend?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the Negro…
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How Do I Track Down a Slave Plantation?
(The Root) — In the 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro column entitled “Why Was Cotton ‘King’?” I described how blacks were commodified by the plantation economy in slaveholding states. For many, the trail to discovering black ancestry is paved with this sad truth and with clues in the records kept by plantations. Below, a…
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Did Black People Own Slaves?
For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers
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