who are some black people who changed america?
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Just off the top of me head...\n\nMartin Luther King\nMalcom X\nGeorge Washington Carver\nRosa Parks\nSydney Potier\nMaya Angelou\nOprah\nHarriet Tubman\n\n...and I'm sure there are a lot more than 100.
124484
that's a good question, I believe it to be black people... it all start out in Africa then they start move northeast to asain, then went both to america and europe.
48878
the black moses because she led so many people to freedom risking her own life on the underground railroad. just confirming what the other said and givin some backround info
113732
Booker T. Washington was the first President/principal of Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University but it was founded by Lewis Adams of Tuskegee. Adams became a black educator after the civil war and was approched by a canadate for state senate (Alabama) asking what can he do to get the black vote in Macon County(Tuskegee). Adams asked for a school to be set-up in Tuskegee for blacks. The Canidate was elected and 2,000 dollars was appropreated for Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute. Then Mr. Adams and a host of other board members from Tuskegee contacted Hampton Institute to send them a leader for the newly developed school and they sent Booker T. Washington.
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Blacks started coming later on. They were brought here by the white people to be used as slaves to harvest their land and clean their houses, ect. It is very cruel, but true. Africans were torn from their homes, and kidnapped to the U.S. where they were forced to serve white people.
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Of course they made some difference, but folks need to think \nfor themselves . I have noticed that blacks in general do not go \nout of their way to help each other like Jews, etc. have gone \nthrough a rough time, but have supported one another.
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check out the protest songs of the 60's, the rise of r&b and black influence on rock and roll, and the hip hop and rap era.  you could just google those topics and type african american culture in the search bar with each of them.
587639
You know at one time I really believed that to be true until the last two elections I noticed that there were  several African Americans that were in the public eye advocating for republicans It really blew my mind that they were as stupid as the rest of America. Sorry if someone gets offended but Clinton in spite of his personal infidelities he did have America making money and not spending it. He did not lie in order to take out revenge on a country for trying to assassinate his father. Costing lives. Anyway  I believe that African Americans were originally Republicans. But they got smart and decided that they did not believe the Republicans had the little mans best interest in mind. Fat cats got fatter poor got poorer and the middle class is destined to be completely eliminated. I also observed that the African Americans that were republican were born with money or were of a higher economic standard than the average African American.
118099
Hmm... I would try going to to the source below if you want to learn about famous black people, like Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHope this helps and Good Luck!
785539
Well, your question can be reverse?  Why do you  consider whites blaming black...etc..etc?.  It a simple answer, because of the visible "spokesmen".  Unfortunately, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are your "spokesmen".  If you do not want their message being spread then you must silence them.  Just as I must silence the spokesmen of my race that spew hatred.
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An African-American is a person born in Africa that becomes an American through the naturalization process as regulated by the United States Dept of Naturalization and Immigration, just like the ethnic terms Black, Colored, and Negro, they are all defined as a Negroid person born in Africa according to the United States Census Bureau, and several Federal Courts and Laws. The academic definitions have been altered or eliminated since 1989 to misleading define Afrimericans, but these academic definitions don’t have the value as do the legal definitions, and the Afrimerican Word and definition is the only term/word that accurately, academically, legally, and politically describe and define Afrimericans.
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I don't think any bands "changed" America. Well, maybe, as others have said, ?The Beatles. Before that, there wasn't really any long hair on men at the time, the clothing changed, etc. I suppose Chuck Berry because he introduced rock and roll (and saw it hijacked by Elvis Presley) and rock and roll music changed the way young people behaved and looked at things. Rock and roll sort of created that "us against them" mentality between teens and adults. Punk was something and pretty much affected almost everything in rock after it, but it didn't change the country. Maybe The Sugarhill Gang. Even thought they didn't invent rap, they were the first ones to take it mainstream and some 30 years later hip hop is still going on, affecting music, clothing, advertising, even politics to an extent.\n\nLet us know if we get an "A" or not...
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Malcolm X, like M.L. King, Jr., became, even at the time, a historic figure.  It isn't to say they WERE the civil rights movement (the amount of people who propped them up and helped them throughout is still uncounted) but they did, for better or for worst, assume top positions in blacks' struggles.  Seeing as to how blacks were becoming aware of how unjust their condition was and learning of solutions to their problems, an example had to be set so that anyone who felt they could affect positive change would think twice.  And what better way, pray tell, of doing so than assassinating those who are most representative, for whatever reason, of a movement such as that for black civil rights?\n\nAfter both King and X were gone, blacks' civil rights suffered, in the following decades, successive roll-backs, culminating in Clinton's welfare "reform" and, of course, the lovely images of poverty and despair resulting from the devastation wrought by Katrina.  As one might reckon from the deaths of King and X and their substitution, so to speak, by the very incompetent Sharpton and Jackson, 1955-1965's conquests are fast becoming lip-service episodes from a not-too-distant past.
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THANK YOU!!!!\n\nI get so tired of people assuming that black people see Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as our 'leaders'. I personally have no respect for either because they're always running their mouths but they actually do nothing for the black community. Why do so many people think that black people somehow appointed these men as our leaders?
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richard pryor because he was revolutionary.\nroseanne barr because she brought middle class america into light
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African-American is a politically correct term for black people, you need to look back at the history on how black people were called before becoming P.C. term.\n\nGeneration ago, black people or black slave are capture in Africa and sold as slaves by the white people, they were called slave, but a degratory remarks or name were used to called these black people, there were called Negro, which is the earliest name used before Nxxxxr were derive from this.\n\nAs America become more civil with human right and equality laws, black protest and civil right movement, the term slowly evolve to African-America to denotes the black people came from African origin but are now American citizen.
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I don't know who TuMis is but Tunis Campbell (1812-1891)was the highest-ranking and most influential African American politician in nineteenth-century Georgia. He was an abolitionist who moved to the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia to help freed people in the work of Reconstruction. Is this what you're looking for?