British philosopher

Came up with idea of "natural rights"

Secretary of Royal African Society

Founder of African American History

Fought in Civil War; Kicked out- too young

Expedition to extract rubber

Destroyed tribes, cut off African's hands

Crucified Africans along Congo River

Founder of NAACP

Pan-African Congress

wrote "Black Reconstruction"

Great Barrington, Mass

Fisk University

first Harvard grad- PhD

Studied under Hagel

70s blues singer

Denied entry to Curtis College of Music

Later given honorary degree

Pro Soviet; Advocate of Communism

Born- Princeton, NJ

Son of Slave

Rutgers; Phi Beta Kappa

Teammates on football team tried to kill him

Jackie Robinson testified against him

Founder of Association for the study of African American Life and History

Historian; Author; Journalist

1st black PhD at Harvard

"Miseducation of the Negro American"

blacks must be taught differently than whites because of their differences

wrote "From Slavery to Freedom"-first real AA textbook

PhD from Harvard

African-centured way of viewing history

Problem: begins with supposition that white people are bad

White scholar

Book "Black Athena" asked how white scholars have purposely distorted history to eliminate black contributions

most well-known Afro-Centurist

"Everything for African Americans traces back to Egypt"

Made movie "Roots'

-Served in Coast Guard in WWII

-wrote Malcom X autobiography

-Went to UN to track where he's from by singing a song his grandmother used to sing to him

-From Gambia

-Transformed himself into an African Prince

First formal black Sociologist; PhD
University of Chicago

Concerned with effects of slavery on blacks

Process of making slave into citizen- "Seasoning"

anthropologist who established African & African American studies in American academia.

White guy

-British Ships sailed to African to trade for trinkets, weapons, in turn for slaves

-From Africa, they sailed to South America and the   American South to trade for raw materials (sugar, cotton)

From America, manufactured materials are brought back to Britain

disciplinary process intended to modify the behavior and attitude of slaves and make them affective laborers.

discarding African culture and introducing Anglo-Saxon

-father of capitalism

-wrote Wealth of Nations in 1776

-Wealth of Nations implied that blacks were inferior to whites

-Russian author

-Founder of modern Russian literature

-Half black

-French author

-Wrote 3 muskateers

-Nature vs Nurture; Inherited Intelligence

-Whites are more genetically endowed

Man & thesis 

-Dumb black man was mentally a slave

-Derived from behavior of Jews during Nazi period

Founder of Black Episcopal Church

Born Slave in Philidelphia

Converted to Methodist Chirch

Sailor caught by British in Revolutionary War. Put on prison ship. Captain liked him so much, he told him he wanted to send him to get an education in England.

But this man refused, and did not want to betray America

Quaker from Pennsylvania;

Society for Abolition of Slavery (1787)

became religious poet by age 13

wrote first book ever by African woman (1773)

born free in Maryland (1731-1806); Mixed race

first black civilian employee of United States government

-Religious group of quakers that emphasized nonviolence.

-To convince brotherhood to stop using slaves.

(Philidelphia) Richard Allen, Absolom Jones

-Build Christian moral character

Free Negro from North Carolina

Wrote a book (in appeal to Notes on Virginia) that called for violent uprise from the slaves against the whites.

Closely tied to the Nat Turner revolt

- Minister from Tory

Spoke out saying blacks should rise up against their masters

- Liberator of Haiti

Became a symbol of black resistance.

Can cross state lines to capture their slaves.

- Gave legal custody of the person they claimed