Concept information
Preferred term
African American activism
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- abolitionist movements
- Afrocentricity
- Alain Locke
- Alice Walker
- Al Sharpton
- Amiri Baraka
- Angela Davis
- anti-lynching movement
- A. Philip Randolph
- Barbara Jordan
- Barbara Lee
- Bayard Rustin
- bell hooks
- Black Panther Party
- black power
- Bobby Seale
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Carter Woodson
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Coretta Scott King
- Cornel West
- critical race theory
- Derrick Bell
- Dick Gregory
- Elijah Muhammad
- Ella Baker
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Frederick Douglass
- Fred Hampton
- Freedom Rides, 1961
- George Jackson
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry Belafonte
- H. Rap Brown
- Huey P. Newton
- Jackie Robinson
- James Baldwin
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jesse Jackson
- John Brown
- John Conyers, Jr.
- kwanzaa
- Langston Hughes
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Louis Farrakhan
- Malcolm X
- Marcus Garvey
- Marion Wright Edelman
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Medgar Evers
- Million Man March
- Mississippi freedom schools
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Muhammad Ali
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- NAACP
- National Urban League
- Nation of Islam
- Nat Turner
- Ossie Davis
- pan-Africanism
- Paul Robeson
- Poor People's Campaign
- Ralph Abernathy
- rastifarians
- reparations movement
- Robert Moses
- Ronald Dellums
- Rosa Parks
- Roy Wilkins
- Shirley Chisolm
- Sojourner Truth
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Stokely Carmichael
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Thurgood Marshall
- Toni Morrison
- underground railroad
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- white privilege
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/African_American_activism
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