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Notable African-American Literary Figures Alice Walker Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…Black Baseball Players
Notable African-American Baseball Players Satchel Paige Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…Black Basketball Players
Notable African-American Basketball Players Browse by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders Religious Leaders Scientists…Brewer's: Black Acts
Acts of the Scottish Parliament between the accession of James I. and the year 1587; so called because they were printed in black characters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Black Art
The art practised by conjurors, wizards, and others, who professed to have dealings with the devil. Black here means diabolical or wicked. Some derive it from nigromancy, a corruption of…Brewer's: Black as a Crow
(or as a raven ); “as a raven's wing;” as ink; as hell, i.e. hades (2 syl.), meaning death or the grave; as your hat, etc. (See Similes.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Black Assize
July 6th, 1577, when a putrid pestilence broke out at Oxford during the time of assize. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black-balledBlack Art A B C D E…Brewer's: Black-balled
Not admitted to a club; the candidate proposed is not accepted as a member. In voting by ballot, those who accept the person proposed drop a white or red ball into the box, but those who…Brewer's: Black Book
A book exposing abuses in Church and State, which furnished much material for political reform in the early part of the present century. (See Black Books.) Amherst speaks of the Proctor's…Brewer's: Black Books
To be in my black books. In bad odour; in disgrace; out of favour. The black books were those compiled in the reign of Henry VIII. to set forth the scandalous proceedings of the English…