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Anita Florence Hemmings (June 8, 1872 – 1960) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College. After graduation she became a librarian at the Boston Public Library.
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The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots) are a subtribe of the Nama people, largely assimilated after their migration from the Cape Colony (today, part ...
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The Creoles of color are a historic ethnic group of Creole people that developed in the former French and Spanish colonies of Louisiana (especially in the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, and ...
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The Basters (also known as Baasters, Rehobothers or Rehoboth Basters) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from White European men and Black African women, usually of Khoisan origin, but occa ...
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Afro-Mexicans (Spanish: afromexicanos; negros; afrodescendientes) also known as Indigenous Black Mexicans, are Mexicans who have both a predominant heritage from Sub-Saharan Africa and identify as such ...
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In Southern Africa, Cape Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurling) are an ethnic group composed primarily of persons of mixed race. Although Cape Coloureds form a minority group within South Africa, they ...
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The Malagasy (French: Malgache) are an Austronesian and Southeast African ethnic group native to the island and country of Madagascar. They are divided into two subgroups: the "Highlander" Merina, Sihanaka ...
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The Griqua (; Afrikaans: Griekwa (sometimes referred to as Korana or Koranna), are a subgroup of Southern Africa's heterogeneous former Khoe-speaking nations, who under apartheid were given a special racial ...
Descendants of West African, Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak people
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The Garifuna ( GAR-ee-FOO-nə; pl. Garinagu in Garifuna) are a mixed African and indigenous people originally from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent who speak the Garifuna dialect of the Arawakan language ...
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Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kleurlinge/Bruinmense) are a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including K ...
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Mulatto (, ) is a historical racial classification of people who are born of one white parent and one black parent, as well as mixed-race people in general. The term mulatto is now chiefly considered to ...
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Louisiana Creole people (French: Créoles de Louisiane, Spanish: Criollos de Luisiana), are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during the period of both French and Spanish rule ...
In the wake of one of the greatest failed social experiments in the history of mankind, this is a look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of ...