It was Paul Cuffe. In 1811, he addressed Congress on the subject of African American Christian colonies in Africa.
Hine, Darlene Clark. 2008. African American Odyssey.Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. 4th ed.
President Theodore Roosevelt invited the African-American educator and scientist Booker T. Washington to the White House. Sadly, it proved a very controversial gesture: America was still segregated back then, and various politicians, many members of the public, and a number of newspaper editorials expressed extreme outrage over it.
Booker T. Washington was entertained at the White House by Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt was criticized for having Booker T. Washington for dinner at the White House. Washington was the first African American to be invited as a guest at the White House.
No he was not. He was an African -American.
this question makes no sense. There are African American lawyers everywhere. That's like asking who are the white lawyers. this question makes no sense. There are African American lawyers everywhere. That's like asking who are the white lawyers.
If you're white then you'd call a black person African or African-American. If you're black then you'd call a white person a white person.
African-American (father) and Jewish Canadian (mother).
she was the first African American to attend to a white school
The first African American to visit the White House was Fredrick Douglas After Pres. Lincoln signed the Emacipation Proclamation.
Theodore Roosevelt, who invited Booker T. Washington, was the first president to invite an African-American man to the White House.
African American children were not allowed to attend white schools until the Brown v Kansas schools decision that the Supreme Court ruled that African American children be allowed to attend white schools.
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Because they were once discriminated and were not treated right back then.
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Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend all white school in the south.
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