Many African Americans have contributed their quota to world history. Their efforts ... Martin Luther King Jr. was famous through the American Civil Rights Movement. His eloquence and commitment ...

African-Americans have fought for the United States throughout its history, defending and serving a country that in turn denied them their basic rights as citizens. Despite policies of racial ...

James Yates was an African-American who decided ... were part of an unknown chapter of history between Spain and the United States. Like thousands of people of the southern United States, James ...

This series chronicles the full sweep of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent right up to today when America remains a nation deeply divided by race.

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people based on race ... over a million African American men joined the US military.