Category
Politics
- Bayard Rustin
American civil rights activist (1912–1987)
- Blanche K. Bruce
American politician (1841-1898)
- Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist (1917–1977)
- Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
- Hiram Rhodes Revels
American politician (1827-1901)
- Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
- Paul Robeson
American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)
- Robert Smalls
American politician and former slave (1839-1915)
- Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)
- W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
- The Black Panther Party
US black power organization (1966–1982)
- The Black Power Movement
political and social movement and ideology
- The Black Lives Matter Movement / Contemporary Civil Rights
social movement originating in the USA
- The Civil Rights Movement
1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement
- The Pan-Africanism Movement
worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent
- Reconstruction Era
era after American Civil War (1865–1877)
- West African Kingdoms Era
occurrences and people in West Africa throughout history
- Aksum Empire
trading nation in the area of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia
- Kingdom of Benin
West African kingdom (1180–1897)
- Kingdom of Buganda
a Bantu kingdom within Uganda, the kingdom of Baganda people
- Kingdom of Burundi
former kingdom in Central/Eastern Africa up to 1966
- Kingdom of Dahomey
1600–1904 kingdom in West Africa
- Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic Dynasty)
1270–1974 state in the Horn of Africa
- Ghana Empire
West African empire based in modern-day Mauritania and Mali (c. 200–c. 1200s)
- Hausa City-States
former country
- Jolof Empire
former country
- Kanem-Bornu Empire
former country in Africa
- Kingdom of Kush
c. 1070 BCE – c. CE 350 / kingdom in Nubia (modern-day Sudan), northeast Africa
- Kingdom of Ndongo and Matamba
which preceded Portuguese rule
- Kuba Kingdom
kingdom in Central Africa (1625–1884)
- Luba Kingdom
pre-colonial (8th century (700s)–1889) Central African state that arose in the Upemba Depression
- Mali Empire
empire in West Africa from c.1230 to 1670
- Kingdom of Mapungubwe
1075–1220) pre-colonial state in Southern Africa located at the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers, south of Great Zimbabwe
- Kingdom of Mutapa
kingdom in southern Africa between 1430 and 1760
- Oyo Empire
former imperial state
- Kingdom of Rwanda
former kingdom in East Africa from the 15th century and up to 1962
- Sokoto Caliphate
independent Islamic Caliphate, in West Africa from 1804 to 1903
- Songhai Empire
former state located in western Africa