Template:African American ethnicity

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African American
Frederick DouglassBarack ObamaRosa Parks
Condoleezza RiceMartin Luther King, Jr.Beyoncé Knowles
Malcolm XOprah WinfreyBooker T. Washington
Michael JordanHarriet TubmanMuhammad Ali
Frederick Douglass · Barack Obama · Rosa Parks
Condoleezza Rice · M. L. King, Jr. · Beyoncé Knowles
Malcolm X · Oprah Winfrey · Booker T. Washington
Michael Jordan · Harriet Tubman · Muhammad Ali
Total population
African American

42,020,743[1] (13.6% of the US population)

Regions with significant populations
Predominantly in the Southern United States and in urban areas within the country
Languages

American English · African American Vernacular English · Gullah language

Religion

Predominantly Protestant (78%); with Roman Catholic (5%) and Muslim (1%) minorities, and others

Related ethnic groups

Other Afro-American peoples of the Americas
(especially Anglophones)
Americo-Liberians · Sierra Leone Creole people
Black Nova Scotians, Afro-Latin American


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Footnotes

  1. ^ Rastogi, Sonya; Johnson, Tallese D.; Hoeffel, Elizabeth M.; Drewery, Jr., Malcolm P. (September 2011). "The Black Population: 2010" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. p. 3. http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-06.pdf. Retrieved February 15, 2012. 
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