African American History

African American History

1619- First Blacks Arrive in Jamestown

1638- First Slaves Arrive in Massachusetts

1664- Black-White Marriages Outlawed

1688- Quakers Oppose Slavery

1712- First Slave Revolt

1770- Black Killed in Boston Massacre

1773- First Black Church Founded

1775- Society of Abolition of Slavery Established

1776- Blacks and the Revolutionary War

1777- Vermont Abolishes Slavery

1787- Northwest Ordinance

1793- First Fugitive Slave Law

1793- Cotton Gin

1800- Slave Uprising Near Richmond

1807- Slave Importation Banned

1820- Missouri Compromise

1821- Liberia Founded

1829- Walker's Appeal

1831- First Negro Convention

1831- "Liberator" Published

1831- Nat Turner Rebellion

1839- Slave Revolt Aboard Ship

1843- Call for Revolt

1847- Douglass Publishes "North Star"

1849- Harriet Tubman Escapes

1850- Compromise of 1850

1852- Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

1857- Dred Scott Decision

1859- John Brown Raid

1860- Lincoln Elected

1862- Blacks Enlist in Union Army

1863- Emancipation Proclamation

1863- Draft Riots in New York

1865- Thirteenth Amendment Ratified

1865- Freedmen's Bureau Created

1867- Reconstruction Act Passed

1867- Howard University Founded

1870- First Black Senator

1875- Civil Rights Bill Passed

1877- Reconstruction Ends

1877- First Black Graduates from West Point

1881- Tuskegee Institute Founded

1883- Civil Rights Act Unconstitutional

1890- Blacks Excluded from Southern Politics

1896- Segregation Legal

1898- Blacks Serve in Spanish-American War

1904- Booker T Washington, Black Leader

1904- Niagara Movement Begun

1908- NAACP Founded

1917- Great Migration Begins

1917- Race Riots in Illinois

1917- Blacks and World War I

1920- Universal Negro Imporvement Association Meets

1925- Brotherhood of Rail Porters

1931- Scottsboro Trial

1936- Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals

1936- NAACP Sues for Equal Pay

1940- First Black General

1941- FDR Forbids Discrimination

1943- Race Riots in Harlem

1944- Adam Clayton Powell Elected to Congress

1944- All White Primary Illegal

1946- Truman Appoints Panel

1947- Jackie Robinson Becomes First Black Major Leaguer

1948- Military Desegregated

1950- Ralph Bunche Receives Nobel Prize

1953- Washington's Restaurants Desegregated

1954- Schools Ordered to Desegregate

1955- Bus Boycott Begins

1957- Voting Act of 1957

1960- Widespread Protest Throughout South

1961- Freedom Riders

1962- James Meredith Enters University of Mississippi

1963- March On Washington

1964- Rioting in US Cities

1964- Civil Rights Workers Slain

1964- King Receives Nobel Peace Prize

1964- Selma to Montgomery March

1965- Malcolm X Assassinated

1965- Los Angeles Riots

1966- James Meredith Shot

1967- First Black Senator Since Reconstruction

1967- First Black Supreme Court Justice

1967-Adam Claytom Powell Jr Removed From Office

1968- Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

1974- Samuel Gravely Becomes the First Black Admiral in US Navy

1976- Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles

1977- Young, Ambassador to UN

1984- Jesse Lackson Runs for President

1987- Powell, Security Advisor to President

1989- Powell, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

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