Category

Military

• Josephine Baker

  American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

• Paul Robeson

  American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

• Robert Smalls

  American politician and former slave (1839-1915)

• Thurgood Marshall

  Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)

• The American Revolution and Black Patriots

  (no Wikidata description — needs a real one-line summary)

• Buffalo Soldiers

  African American regiments of the US Army created 1866, the first black regulars in peacetime

• The Civil War and Emancipation

  1861–1865 civil war in the United States between the North and the South over the enslavement of African-Americans

• The Tuskegee Airmen

  African-American military pilots during World War II

• World War II and the Double V Campaign

  black American campaign to promote democracy and civil rights

• Fort Monroe National Monument

  former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, United States

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

  2,500 acres at confluence of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland (US) managed by the National Park Service

• Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

  museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA

• Kingdom of Dahomey

  1600–1904 kingdom in West Africa

• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic Dynasty)

  1270–1974 state in the Horn of Africa

• Kingdom of Kush

  c. 1070 BCE – c. CE 350 / kingdom in Nubia (modern-day Sudan), northeast Africa

• Kingdom of Ndongo and Matamba

  which preceded Portuguese rule

• Oyo Empire

  former imperial state