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:

    “In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.”
    —Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)

    “I feel as tall as you.”
    —Ellis Meredith, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 14, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)