BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black

Paper · Semantic Scholar

: This psychobiography aimed to uncover the characteristics of optimal personality functioning (OPF) across the lifespan of Chabani Manganyi (1940–2024), the first Black South African clinical psychologist. The methodology used in this study encompassed an existential Franklian scholarly psychobiography. Sources of data on Manganyi included only publicly available primary and secondary data. Primary sources included …

Reference · Wikidata

Americans with sub-Saharan African ancestry

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

African Americans or Black Americans, also formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who have ancestry from "any of the Black racial groups of Africa". African Americans constitute the third-largest racial and ethnic group in the U.S., following White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans. The term "African American" gene…

Book · DOAB

Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context. This carefully re-edited version of the 1998 publication opens with an estimation of earliest Africa…

Full text · Open Library

Black Bolshevik is an autobiography of Harry Haywood, the son of former slaves who became a leading member of the Communist Party USA and a pioneering theoretician on the Afro-American struggle. The author's first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the Scottsboro Boys' defense, communist work in the South, the Spanish Civil War, the battle against the revisionist betrayal of the Party, and other hist…

Image · DPLA

Therapist and family counselor June Dobbs Butts was born on June 11, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the youngest daughter of Irene and John Wesley Dobbs, one of Atlantaís most prominent African American leaders before the Civil Rights Movement. Butts is also the aunt of the late Honorable Maynard Jackson, Atlantaís first black mayor. Butts received her B.A. degree in sociology from Spelman College in 1948, setting…