Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/African_Americans_in_foreign_policy> ?p ?o }
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy abstract "African-Americans in foreign policy in the United States catalogs distinguished African Americans who have and continue to contribute to international development, diplomacy, and defense through their work with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Information Agency, and the U.S. Congress, and other notable agencies and non-governmental organizations. The creators acknowledge the presence of the interagency contributions to the foreign affairs realm, and welcome additional content to showcase the achievements of African-Americans in other relevant USG agencies.African-Americans have mobilized to make visible issues to be reflected in American foreign policy decisions. African-Americans continue to leverage knowledge of global issues and create linkages with people of color throughout the world to gain insight and allies in the struggle for equal rights. Whether the influence came from civic organizations, religious institutions or charismatic leaders, the African-American voice has not been silent in articulating their views on how foreign policy should be created. African–Americans also made recommendations and participated in the formation of foreign policy of the United States to shape domestic policy regarding civil and human rights.In 2008, African Americans represented 5.6% of the approximately 11,471 members of the U.S. Foreign Service. This percentage falls short of the number of African Americans in the civilian workforce and the general population but represents, over time, efforts to promote diversity through senior-level appointments and recruitment into the career Foreign Service.The first African American diplomat, Yale graduate Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Minister Resident and Consul General in Haiti in 1869. From Bassett's appointment in 1869 through the 1930s, the United States sent scores of African American ministers, consuls, and other officials to regions including Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Many of these officials (including Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Archibald Grimke, George Washington Ellis, and Henry Francis Downing) were also literary writers, and their work in international diplomacy influenced the ways in which they approached racial diplomacy during the New Negro era and the Harlem Renaissance. It was not until 1924 when the Rogers Act combined the Consular and Diplomatic Service that James Carter and William Yerby became the first African Americans to enter the regular career Foreign Service. They were joined by Clifton Wharton, Sr. who was named Ambassador to Norway in 1961. After Wharton, Sr., no other African American entered the Foreign Service for the next 20 years. During this period, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its predecessor organization also hired a number of African Americans who distinguished themselves as senior diplomats.African American ambassadors and senior diplomats have not all come from the ranks of the State Department and USAID. The former United States Information Agency began an active recruitment effort aimed at African Americans in the latter part of the 1950s and 1960s and attracted numerous officers who achieved ambassadorial rank. African Americans have also played a major role in international affairs with the United Nations and United States Congress. Recent efforts made by Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Colin L. Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton to increase diversity in the Department and to attract more minorities to the Foreign Service bode well for augmenting the under-representative number of African Americans in the Service and for achieving a broader geographical distribution of African American Ambassadors throughout the world.".
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink HHRG-113-FA05-Bio-RollinsD-20140430.pdf.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 199228.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 225997.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 231689.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 233109.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 234534.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 236745.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 205064.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink 233799.htm.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink feed-future-our-new-development-model-action.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink feb-3-2014-jason-fraser-sworn-mission-director-angola.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink michelle-godette-sworn-mission-director-guinea-and-sierra-leone.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink arthur-brown.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink gary-c-juste.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink lawrence-hardy-ii.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink linda-etim.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageExternalLink sharon-cromer.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageID "34067446".
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageLength "61297".
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageOutDegree "427".
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageRevisionID "697057928".
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink African_Americans.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink African_Union.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Africare.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Alfonso_E._Lenhardt.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Alonzo_Fulgham.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Ambassador.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Ambassador-at-Large.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Andrew_Young.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Apartheid.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Archibald_Grimké.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_Administration.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_International_Organization_Affairs.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Barack_Obama.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Barbara_M._Watson.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Benin.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Bernadette_Allen.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Bill_Clinton.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Biological_Weapons_Convention.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Bisa_Williams.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Bismarck_Myrick.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Brian_A._Nichols.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink C._Steven_McGann.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Rowan.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Stokes.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Carol_Moseley_Braun.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:African-American_diplomats.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:African-American_people.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:Foreign_relations_of_the_United_States.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:International_development.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_States_Agency_for_International_Development.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_States_Department_of_State.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_States_government_officials.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Charles_A._Ray.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Coles_Diggs,_Jr.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Cheryl_Mills.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Chief_diversity_officer.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Cindy_Courville.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Clarence_Clyde_Ferguson,_Jr..
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Clifton_R._Wharton,_Jr..
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Clifton_Reginald_Wharton,_Sr..
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Clyde_Bishop.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Colin_Powell.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Condoleezza_Rice.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Conference_on_Disarmament.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Congressional_Black_Caucus.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Constance_Berry_Newman.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Crystal_Nix-Hines.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Dave_Bolen.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Delano_Lewis.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Diane_Watson.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Diplomat.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Dominican_Republic.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Donald_M._Payne.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Donald_McHenry.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink East_African_Community.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Ebenezer_Bassett.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Edith_S._Sampson.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Edward_J._Perkins.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Edward_R._Dudley.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Eric_M._Bost.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Eritrea.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Esther_Brimmer.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Ethiopia.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Eunice_S._Reddick.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_Service_Institute.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_Service_Officer.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_relations_of_Myanmar.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Franklin_D._Roosevelt.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Franklin_Williams_(diplomat).
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Frederica_Wilson.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Douglass.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Gail_D._Mathieu.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink Gayleatha_B._Brown.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink George_Edward_Moose.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink George_Moose.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink George_Thomas_%22Mickey%22_Leland.
- African_Americans_in_foreign_policy wikiPageWikiLink George_W._Haley.