Talk:African-American history

New article: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1895)

Folks, I created a new sub-article on the history and was looking for general feedback. The article is African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1895) and is intended as a complement to the similar articles covering the 20th century. Right now the article is little more than a stub and, before I go further, I wanted to ensure that there was consensus on its appropriateness (i.e. am I the first one to think of creating the article or is there some reason it was avoided?). The articles I have seen in WP that deal with this period mostly talk about the attacks on black power but don't talk about the gains in civil rights made to any great degree (mind you, most of those gains were erased around the turn of the century). There were, in fact, some important leaders and some major accomplishments during this period.

Anyway, please feel free to comment in that article's talk page on the article's appropriateness, scope, etc.

Thanks.

This is an interesting idea - how did you define the years covered by the period? There were so many changes that African Americans and white supporters initiated immediately after the war. Maybe part of the issue is that this was a period when rights were both granted (by amendments) and later taken away (by Southern whites political actions and intimidation) - the later movement was to restore the ability of African Americans to exercise their constitutional rights as citizens and to end legal segregation. I'll go look at it.Parkwells (talk) 00:33, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

--Mcorazao (talk) 15:51, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if you are aware (or watching this page) but as soon as the WP:MOS issue (covered by an Arbcom moratorium) is resolved someone need to address an issue in title names. There is no reason at all that there be anything but a space between African and American (African American History) as well as "African American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1895)". That article failed a move request to the more common name and I did not follow all the reasoning. The title issue could have been solved with "African American Civil Rights Movement (US)" to avoid ambiguity but I guess a made up name is better than none right? This is just my opinion and two cents but the hyphen (or dash depending on the out-come) is unwarranted, unnecessary, and even misleading. Otr500 (talk) 14:40, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Names

"African-American" when used as an adjective is supposed to be hyphenated, as it is a compound adjective, as in "an African-American doctor". When it is a noun - "He is an African American." - it is not hyphenated.

The First African Slaves

Actually, the first African slaves brought to what is now the U.S were taken to a short lived 16th century Spanish colony in what is now South Carolina. When management of the colony deteriorated, the Africans rebelled and escaped. The colonialists returned to Spain and the Africans remained behind, some speculate that they sought refuge with Native Americans. Later on in the 16th century, Africans were taken to the St. Augustine colony in Florida. The slaves brought to Virginia in 1619 were only the first African slaves brought to *British* North America. See wikipedia page 'African American'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.88.24.191 (talk) 16:49, 5 November 2011 (UTC)