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  • Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American ... Burnham and Root were the architects of one of the first American ...
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  • 1862 - March 25, 1931), was an African-American journalist, civil rights ... She helped develop numerous African American women's and reform ...
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  • better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at ... made up entirely of curvilinear black and white stripes that are not contained ...
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  • Mary Jemison (1743 – 1833) was an American frontier girl who was ... land and lived her later years among the white settlers there. She told ...
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  • Following encounters with white settlers moving into their lands during ... Americans in the United States|Native American]] plankhouse constructed ...
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  • her late teens she married Frank Riddle, a white settler, who had emigrated ... awareness to the plight of the Native American. When these travels were ...
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  • DC. The museum's main focus is American art. of the most comprehensive collections of American art in the world. Corcoran ...
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  • being destroyed by the westward expansion of white settlers. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...
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  • music stylism and the robust sounds of American jazz, Gershwin created a ... of Western notated music with the African-American principle of improvised ...
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  • as a captain in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War he was the first ... father (rumored to have been a prominent white man). As a slave, Robert ...
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  • (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter ... with the Southern cause during the American Civil War remains unclear. ...
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  • cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it ... that were among the original thirteen American colonies. Another frequently ...
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  • 1930 - January 12, 1965) was the first American playwright to create a realistic ... was a respected member of the African American community on Chicago's ...
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  • 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African-American anthropologist, novelist ... and deeply historical novels of black and white Southern life were too apolitical ...
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  • Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was a black American ... murder of a black man for talking back to a white woman. Evers walked 12 miles ...
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  • – November 25, 1949) was a pioneer and pre-eminent African-American ... circuit, Robinson would not dance for white audiences until he was 50 ...
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  • – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. ... and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with ...
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  • 1785 – June 28, 1830) was an African-American abolitionist, most famous ... with the nation's first African-American newspaper, the Freedom& ...
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  • the significance of the massacre in American history, and its ongoing ... and painful incidents in the history of White-Indian relations in North ...
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  • The Omaha tribe is a Native American tribe that currently reside in ... an extensive trade network with early white explorers and voyageurs. ...
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