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John Berry Meachum was born into slavery in Virginia in 1789 but by the age of 21 he had earned enough money doing carpentry work to purchase his own freedom and then his father’s.
In the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Merritt Junior College students Huey and Bobby founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense on October 15, 1966, in West Oakland, California. Shortening its name to the Black Panther Party. 
In the early periods(1500s), Africans participated in extensive international trading networks and intrans-oceanic travel. 
Aunt Polly Jackson, a former enslaved person, was fed up with the harsh and inhumane treatment that was meted out to her even in her old age and decided to escape to freedom.
James Hemings was born in 1765 into slavery and lived much of his life enslaved. He was among the many enslaved people who came into Thomas Jefferson's possession through his wife's inheritance. 
The Stono Rebellion, the largest slave rebellion in South Carolina, on September, 1739. 
South Carolina became the first place to prohibit slave education in 1740, specifically banned from learning how to write after the Stono rebellion (one of the largest slave uprisings in colonial America) led by a Literate Enslaved African Man. 
Guion “Guy” Bluford was the first Black man in space as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle 'Challenger' in 1983. Of 10,000 applicants to the NASA space program, Guion S. Bluford was one of 35 chosen to join the new space shuttle team in January 1978. 
A century before Rosa Parks, there was Elizabeth Jennings 
Children usually spend a lot of time watching a lot tv and technically it was sort of a babysitter. It was even worse for inner city children whose parents spent endless hours at work, thus their kids were usually exposed to long hours of mindless programs.
In Illinois, where Fred Hampton was born, the police constantly harassed black people. Access to social goods too was made difficult, if not curtailed, in the areas with heavy black populations.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. It took place in Washington, D.C. 
Aunt Jemima was first introduced as a character in a minstrel show – a show that consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performed by white people in blackface for the purpose of playing the roles of black people. 
It is believed that Solitude was born as a result of her mother being raped by a white sailor while she was being transported on a slave ship from Africa. She was sold into slavery in Guadeloupe.
Around early 1828, he was convinced that he “was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty”. A solar eclipse and an unusual atmospheric event on 13th August, is what inspired Nat Turner to start his insurrection, which began 8 days later, on August 21, 1831. 
The German colonization of South-West Africa began in 1883, two years before the official Partition of Africa. 
The BBP were inspired by the US Black Panther Party, though they were unaffiliated with them. It was founded by Nigerian playwright, Obi Benue Egbuna in 1968. 
When it comes to how the United States of America portrays slavery it depicts that slaves were very docile and didn’t fight back. However, this was not the case and there were numerous slave rebellions, but they are not usually taught in school or displayed on TV/movies.
They had been brought over as part of the Boer War exhibit in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held alongside the Games, when they decided to enter the marathon at the last minute.
Henrietta Lacks was black woman who unknowingly was the source of cells (from her cancerous tumor) which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create the 1st known human immortal cell line for medical research. 