african american, n.All

Black Cowboys made up to 25 percent of cowboys in the West during the later 19th century.

Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that diverged from ASL largely as a result of the segregation of schools in the American South.

The African American is, in America, more sinned against than sinning.

More black males are in prison than in colleges in the US.

The African American is unable to saunter down a street with any real certainty that violence will not visit him. Thus he could rarely afford the sophisticated inhibitions of civilization, relinquishing the pleasures of the mind for the more obligatory pleasures of the body,'.

If an African elephant comes to America, is it an African-American elephant?

After WWII, over 1 million black americans were denied the benefits of the GI bill for free education and low rate home loans.

An African American is he who is unable to saunter down a street with any real certainty that violence will not visit him.

The African American is not deserving of political or social equality — I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

The African American is one who ever feels his twoness; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body.

The African American is in need of breaking away from the pack thinking and in need of a rejection of immorality - because that's the reason the family's breaking apart - alcohol, drugs, infidelity.