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3.Afro-American culture; many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American.
6.An African-American cultural festival, celebrated from December26 to January1.
8.African-American laborers were sent there to dig, under oppressive conditions.
9.Gwendolyn Brooks, a prominent contemporary American poet, is the first African-American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

