On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

However, this did not prevent a European-American family from reselling a home to an African-American family, and Levittown's first black couple, William and Daisy Myers, bought a home in the Dogwood Hollow section in 1957.

He indicates that works such as " Will You Love Me Tomorrow ", written by a white couple, produced by an African-American man, with vocals by young African-American women and strings sounding like they were targeted at a white audience, conveyed a " color-blind " message on top of its more obvious sexual one.

Born during a time of racial tension in Albany, Georgia, 8 months after bring born, a white mob lynched an African-American couple just north of Rush's home, known as the Moore ’ s Ford Bridge Case.

The international crew, consisting of the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the Shuttle, the first African-American woman to fly in space and, contrary to normal NASA policy, the first married couple to fly on the same space mission ( Lee and Davis ), was divided into red and blue teams for around the clock operations.

* In 1989, police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, conduct a drug raid at the home of an elderly African-American couple, Lloyd Smalley and Lillian Weiss, after a bad tip from an informant.

One night, the car of young cop Murray " Superboy " Babitch ( Rapaport ), nephew of Lt. Ray Donlan ( Keitel ), is sideswiped on the George Washington Bridge by a couple of African-American teens.

A slur derived from " spic " is " spic and span " ( first used in the African-American community in the 1950s ) meaning a mixed Puerto Rican and African-American couple.

Other competitors include teenage surfer sweethearts Jim Crandell ( Robert Carradine ) and Maryann ( Belinda Balaski ) driving Maryann's father's Chevrolet Corvette, middle-aged Terry McMillan in a Chevrolet Blazer, three sexy waitresses, Sandy ( Mary Woronov ), Ginny ( Glynn Rubin ) and Wendy ( Diane Lee Hart ) in a souped up van, arrogant German driver Wolfe Messer ( James Keach ) in a De Tomaso Pantera, preppy African-American Beutell ( Stanley Bennett Clay ) in a Lincoln Continental he has been hired by a wealthy elderly couple to transport to New York for them ( unaware that he is using it to enter the race ) and Buckman's best friend Zippo ( Archie Hahn ) in a Pontiac Trans Am identical to Coy's.

In some African-American communities, marrying couples will end their ceremony by jumping over a broomstick, either together or separately.

They include the Newbery Medal for writing, Michael L. Printz Award for writing for teens, Caldecott Medal for illustration, Golden Kite Award in various categories from the SCBWI, Sibert Medal for informational, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning readers, Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for impact over time, Batchelder Award for works in translation, Coretta Scott King Award for work by an African-American writer, and the Belpre Medal for work by a Latino writer.

He provided detailed layering of allusions to current social and political events, including the death of Theodore Roosevelt, the contributions of African-American soldiers to the war, and debates in the US Senate over Jim Crow and labor peonage in the South.

In one writer's view, the city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.

By 2010, the county had grown to a population of 161, 252, largely due to African-American growth of over 150 %.

By 2005 Census estimates for Macomb County showed it was 5. 6 % African American, meaning that the growth of the African-American population in the county had been well over 100 % in the last five years.

* The George Washington Carver Museum relates the story of the African-American genius who invented over 500 different products from peanuts and other plants native to the South.

Due to the town's history of racial strife, the African-American percentage has decreased about 10 times over in the 20th century.

It is one of the few communities in the U. S. with an African-American percentage at over 90 percent of the populations.

Ethnic areas such as the Korean American section of 8th Street and Cholla Drive, thousands of American Jews made the city their home, and according to the Desert Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), the city's population is over 10 percent African-American or Black.

Lewis Tower would win election as Sauk Village's 6th mayor by a 2 to 1 majority over Village Trustee Derrick Burgess in April, 2009 and has become the first African-American to serve as Mayor.

Voters elected Lewis Towers over current Village Board Trustee Derrick Burgess, who was also an African-American, by 62 % to 37 % respectively.

The building of Carver Park and then the construction of Lincoln Park on Parkway Boulevard between Straight Path and Mount Avenue in 1956, with over 400 homes, triggered the transformation of Wyandanch from a mostly white community in 1950 to a majority African-American community in 1960.

' When he was matched with undefeated African-American sensation Joe Louis in 1936 for the German's first fight on American soil in more than two years, he was clearly the betting underdog, considered a name opponent for Louis to roll over on his route to the title.

With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution over slavery and African-American suffrage, Barnum spoke before the legislature and said, " A human soul, ‘ that God has created and Christ died for ,’ is not to be trifled with.

In the debate over slavery and African-American suffrage with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Barnum spoke before the legislature and said, " A human soul, ‘ that God has created and Christ died for ,’ is not to be trifled with.

Mary Frances Hill Coley, an African-American woman who helped deliver over 3, 000 babies in the middle part of the 20th century, is featured in this film.

By 1993, issues back home over his courtship of and marriage to Barbara Feltus, whose mother was German and father was African-American, and tax problems with the German Government, had caused Becker to slide into a severe mid-career decline.

In response to the controversy over the flying of the Confederate Southern Cross, an African-American run company called NuSouth created a flag based on the Confederate Naval Jack, with the white stars and saltire outline replaced by green and the blue saltire made black.

On the morning of September 23, 1957, the nine African-American high school students faced an angry mob of over 1, 000 White Americans protesting integration in front of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Hoover was much lauded for his masterful handling of the refugee camps, but later concerns over the treatment of blacks in those camps caused him to make promises to the African-American community which he later broke, losing the black vote in his reelection campaign.

Russell took over as a player-coach and so became the first African-American coach in the NBA.

During Game 5 of the 1981 NBA Finals, while working as a CBS analyst, Barry made a controversial comment when CBS displayed an old photo of colleague Bill Russell, who is African-American, and Barry joked that " it looks like some fool over there with that big watermelon grin ".

Known as the " Black Woodstock ," Wattstax was hosted by Reverend Jesse Jackson and drew a crowd of over 100, 000 people, most of them African-American.

While both factions supported creation of a minority department within the UAW to deal with the special needs of black and other minority workers and the education of UAW members generally, they disagreed over whether the head of that department should always be African-American.

When the management at her apartment building discriminated against the African-American boxer and barred his entry, West solved the problem by buying the building.

In Chicago in 1951, an African-American family, Ruth Younger, her husband Walter Lee Younger, their son Travis and Walter's mother are living in a cramped apartment.

* In December 1967, Haki R. Madhubuti met with Carolyn Rodgers and Johari Amini in the basement of a South Side apartment to found Third World Press, an outlet for African-American literature.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

The distinctive “ double-pull ” format that typifies most of these songs — also at times used, with slight changes, for pumps, windlass, and capstan, too — was a later development that appears to owe much to African-American work songs.

African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) | Civil rights activists at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

* 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

Walsh was viewed as a strong advocate for African-American head coaches in the NFL and NCAA.

Support for this is found in the Chicago Defender, an African-American newspaper that had a national circulation.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

In 1956, he became the first African-American instructor at the Museum of Modern Art, where he taught for a year before going to Belgium on behalf of MOMA and the State Department.

In 1958 African-American Eugene Wright joined for the group's US State Department tour of Europe and Asia.

Another guest who never appeared on the show because of the controversy surrounding him was legendary African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, who, at the time of the Draper incident, was undergoing his own troubles with the industry's hunt for Communist sympathizers.

The facilities and instruction for African-American children were vastly inferior.

The Pirate gave full rein to Kelly's athleticism and is probably best remembered for Kelly's work with The Nicholas Brothers – the leading African-American dancers of their day – in a virtuoso dance routine.

Note that the aspectual systems of certain dialects of English, such as African-American Vernacular English ( see for example habitual be ), and of creoles based on English vocabulary, such as Hawaiian Creole English, are quite different from those of standard English, and often distinguish aspect at the expense of tense.

However, a gerrymander may also be used for purposes that some perceive as positive, such as in US federal voting district boundaries that produce a majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities ( these are thus called " majority-minority districts ").

Local officials brutalized blacks and prevented them from leaving relief camps, aid meant for African-American sharecroppers was often given to the landowners instead, and many times black males were conscripted by locals into forced labor, sometimes at gun point.

* 1959 – Elijah Jerry " Pumpsie " Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate.

In December 1956, the NAACP recognized him with the Spingarn Medal, which it awards annually for the highest achievement by an African-American.

McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.

He became a devoted fan of hip-hop music, and engaged in extensive discussions on Usenet newsgroups, sometimes pretending to be an African-American rapper who would criticize others for " acting black ".

The Knights were also responsible for race riots that resulted in the deaths of about 28 Chinese Americans in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming, and an estimated 50 African-American sugar-cane laborers in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana.

It was also significant for being the first song cycle by an African-American pop musician ( group leader Arthur Lee was African American as was lead guitarist John Echols ).