African Americans

Historical eventNovember 222014

African Americans

While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.

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When
Saturday, November 22 201412 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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Dates: From 2014.

What happened

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" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States.

November 22 through the years

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November 22 2014 — 12 years ago, on a Saturday.

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