Amber Eaton
Amber Eaton is a student at the University of Washington currently working on her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Comparative History of Ideas. She will be graduating the Spring of 2009. At the time of this entry, she was a student in Dr. Quintard Taylor’s class on African Americans in the American West at the University of Washington.
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Dudley Randall (1914-2000)
Twentieth Century poet Dudley Felker Randall was born January 14, 1914 in Washington D.C. He later moved to Detroit, Michigan....
Margaret E. Danner (1915-1984)
Margaret Esse Danner was an African American poet, born in Pryorsburg, Kentucky on January 12, 1915 to Caleb and Naomi...
Damu Smith (1952-2006)
Leroy Wesley Smith was born in St. Louis Missouri on December 6, 1951, and became a late 20th Century social...
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Audre Lorde, born February 18, 1934 in New York City, New York, was an American feminist poet. The youngest of...
Frank Silvera (1914-1970)
Frank Silvera was an important 20th-century actor, director, producer, and teacher. Born on July 24, 1914, in Kingston, Jamaica, he...
Mongo Santamaria (1917-2003)
Born in Cuba on April 7, 1917, Mongo Santamaria is an Afro-Cuban percussionist who became an influential musician in the...
Black Jews of Harlem
The Black Jews of Harlem are a minority ethnic group in New York who first appeared in the early 1900s....
The New Negro Alliance (1933-1940s)
The New Negro Alliance (NNA) was a Washington, D.C. based organization founded in 1933 by mostly middle class blacks to...
