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African-American society

  • African AmericansThe first African slaves in what is now the United States arrived in the early 16th century. Africans were among Juan Ponce de León's 1513 voyage that landed…
  • African-American cultureIn 1850, a group of enslaved people in Georgia lived under the shadow of white supremacy that sought to strip them of their African culture.
  • JuneteenthOn the 19th of June 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived on the island of Galveston to take command of more than 2,000 federal troops.
  • Rhythm and bluesIn 1948, Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term rhythm and blues to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans.