Black History

Black history refers to the history of black people in any of several regions:

  • History of Africa
  • Afro-Caribbean history
  • African-American history
  • History of Afro-Latin Americans
  • History of Afro-Arab peoples
  • Afro-Brazilian history
  • History of Black Canadians
  • History of Black British people

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or history:

    “I respect the ways of old folks, but the blood of a rooster or a goat cannot turn the seasons, change the course of the clouds and fill them up with water like bladders. The other night, at the ceremony for Legba, I danced and sang my fill: I am a black man, no? and I enjoyed it like a true Negro should. When the drums beat, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel the itch in my hips and up and down my legs, I have got to join the party. But that is all.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)