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Great Events from History: African American History

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Introduction to African American History




Table of Contents: Great Events from History: African Americans




Overviews




African-American cultural impact on US culture




Black church




Agriculture




Sports




Literature




Science and Technology




Cowboys




Cubans and African Americans




Demographic trends




Economic trends




Education




Employment




Film history




Haitians




Integration




Irish and African Americans




Jamaicans




Jews and African Americans




Koreans and African Americans




Lynching




The Media




Military




Music




Native Americans and African Americans




Politics and government




Segregation




Segregation on the frontier




Sharecropping




Slavery




Slavery and families




Slavery and women




Slavery and race relations




Slavery and the justice system




Stereotypes




West Indians




Chronology of Events




The Middle Passage to American Slavery




Africans Arrive in Virginia




Virginia Slave Codes




Charles Town Is Founded




Expansion of the Atlantic Slave Trade 18th century




New York City Slave Revolt




Settlement of the Carolinas




Settlement of Georgia




Stono Rebellion




Caribbean Slave Rebellions




African American Baptist Church Is Founded




Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery Is Founded




Northeast States Abolish Slavery




Freemasons in Boston




Three-fifths compromise




Free African Society Is Founded




Northwest Ordinance




Second Great Awakening




Fugitive Slave Law of 1793




Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin




Negro Conventions




Social Reform Movement




Missouri Compromise




Denmark Vesey Revolt




John Brown Russwurm publishes Freedom’s Journal




Turner’s slave insurrection




Garrison Begins Publishing The Liberator




American Anti-Slavery Society Is Founded




Texas Revolution




AMISTAD Slave Revolt




Groves v. Slaughter




Lombard Street Race Riot of 1842




Muncy Abolitionist Riot of 1842




First Minstrel Shows




Douglass Launches The North Star




Harriet Tubman escapes to freedom




Compromise of 1850




Fugitive Slave Law of 1850




Sojourner Truth speaks at Akron Woman’s Rights Convention




Sojourner Truth




Stowe Publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin




National Council of Colored People Is Founded




Birth of the Republican Party




Congress Passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act




Emigration Convention of 1854




Bleeding Kansas




First African American University Opens




Dred Scott V. Sandford




Lincoln-Douglas Debates




Clotilde capture




Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry




Lincoln Is Elected U.S. President




Civil War




Establishment of the Confederate States of America




Lincoln Is Inaugurated President




First Battle of Bull Run




Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862




Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation




54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment Leads a Mass Assault against Fort Wagner




Draft riots




Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga




Surrender at Appomattox and Assassination of Lincoln




Sherman Marches Through Georgia and the Carolinas




Juneteenth




Watie Is Last Confederate General to Surrender




Thirteenth Amendment Is Ratified




Congress Creates the Freedmen’s Bureau




Birth of the Ku Klux Klan




Black codes




Reconstruction




Buffalo soldiers




The Civil Rights Act of 1866




Civil Rights Acts of 1866-1875




Memphis and New Orleans Race Riots of 1866




Pulaski Race Riot of 1867




Impeachment of Andrew Johnson




Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified




Ku Klux Klan Acts




Fifteenth Amendment




Grandfather Clauses




Colfax Massacre




Slaughterhouse Cases




Clinton Massacre




United States v. Cruikshank




United States v. Reese




Hamburg Massacre of 1876




Charleston race riots




Compromise of 1877




Strauder v. West Virginia




Civil Rights Cases




African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement




Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railway Company v. Mississippi




Mississippi Disenfranchisement Laws




Volume 2




Colored Women’s League




Ida B. Wells-Barnett publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases




Atlanta Compromise




Plessy v. Ferguson




Separate but equal doctrine is created




National Association of Colored Women




Williams v. Mississippi




Wilmington Race Riot of 1898




Joplin Popularizes Ragtime Music and Dance




Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education




Race riots of the twentieth century




Talented Tenth




Founding of the Niagara Movement




Black Sororities and Fraternities




Brownsville incident




Atlanta Race Riots of 1906




First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion




Springfield Race Riot of 1908




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is Founded




Tennesee adopts the one-drop rule




Handy Ushers in the Commercial Blues Era




Great Migration




National Urban League




Griffith Releases The Birth Of A Nation




Buchanan v. Warley




Wentworth Arthur Matthew founds the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation




Garvey and Du Bois Conflict




American Civil Liberties Union Is Founded




Harlem Renaissance




Newberry v. United States




The Dyer Anti-lynching Bill




Perry Race Riot of 1922




Rosewood Massacre




Bessie Smith Records “Downhearted Blues”




Moore v. Dempsey




Oklahoma Imposes Martial Law in Response to KKK Violence




American Negro Labor Congress




Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters




Armstrong Records with the Hot Five




Baker Dances in La Revue Nègre




White primaries




Nixon v. Herndon




Ellington Begins Performing at the Cotton Club




Hallelujah Is the First Important Black Musical Film




Nation of Islam Is Founded




Scottsboro Trials




Tuskegee experiment




Nixon v. Condon




Powell v. Alabama




Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career




Josephine Baker, the First Black Movie Star, ZouZou




Black cabinet




Grovey v. Townsend




Norris v. Alabama




National Council of Negro Women




Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada




Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert




Wright’s Native Son Depicts Racism in America




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund




Black flight




United States v. Classic




Defense industry desegregation




Fair Employment Practices Committee




World War II




Tuskegee Airmen




Congress of Racial Equality Forms




Chicago sit-ins




Race Riots Erupt in Detroit and Harlem




Stormy Weather Offers New Film Roles to African Americans




Smith v. Allwright




United Negro College Fund




Parker’s Playing Epitomizes Bebop




Mahalia Jackson Begins Her Recording Career




President’s Committee on Civil Rights




Baseball’s racial integration




Journey of Reconciliation




Military desegregation




Miles Davis Develops 1950’s Cool Jazz




Ralph Bunche Receives Nobel Prize




Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is Published




Terry v. Adams




Brown v. Board of Education




Kenneth Clark’s Doll Study Cited by Supreme Court in Brown V. Board of Education




Bolling v. Sharpe




White Citizens’ Councils




First Newport Jazz Festival Is Held




Poitier Emerges as a Film Star in The Blackboard Jungle




Berry’s “Maybellene” Popularizes Rock and Roll




Till Lynching




Civil Rights movement




Montgomery Bus Boycott




Southern Manifesto




Southern Christian Leadership Conference




Civil Rights Act of 1957




Little Rock school desegregation crisis




United States Commission on Civil Rights




Ailey Founds His Dance Company




Summit Meeting of National Negro Leaders




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama




Cooper v. Aaron




Gordy Founds Motown Records




Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun Debuts on Broadway




Church bombings




Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections




Greensboro Sit-ins




Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee




Civil Rights Act of 1960




Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Calls for Social Justice




Wilma Rudolph Becomes the Fastest Woman in the World




Gomillion v. Lightfoot




Vietnam War




Albany Movement




Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority




Council of Federated Organizations




Meredith Registers at the University of Mississippi




Washington, D.C., riots




Baldwin Voices Black Rage in The Fire Next Time




Edwards v. South Carolina




Birmingham March




African Liberation Day




Organization of African Unity Is Founded




King Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech




United Nations Condemns Racial Discrimination




Twenty-fourth Amendment




Poll Taxes Are Outlawed




Clay Defeats Liston to Gain World Heavyweight Boxing Title




Dutchman Dramatizes Racial Hatred




Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party




Freedom Summer




Three Civil Rights Workers Are Murdered




Congress Passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964




Katzenbach v. McClung




King Wins the Nobel Peace Prize




Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States




Black Is Beautiful movement




Assassination of Malcolm X




Selma-Montgomery March




Head Start Is Established to Aid Poor Children




Congress Passes the Voting Rights Act




Watts Riot




I Spy Debuts to Controversy




Affirmative Action Is Expanded




Black Christian Nationalist Movement




The Autobiography of Malcolm X Is Published




Volume 3




Kwanzaa Celebration




Brown Introduces Funk Music




Brooke Becomes the First African American U.S. Senator Since Reconstruction




Hendrix Releases Acid Rock Album Are You Experienced?




Reitman v. Mulkey




Loving v. Virginia




National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders




Race Rioting Erupts in Detroit




Newark riot




Chicago race riots of 1967




Marshall Becomes the First African American Supreme Court Justice




Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.




Civil Rights Act of 1968




First steps toward limits on restrictive covenants




Orangeburg massacre




Kerner Commission Explores the Causes of Civil Disorders




Fair Housing Act Outlaws Discrimination in Housing




Poor People’s March on Washington




Green v. County School Board of New Kent County




Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Housing Discrimination




Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Company




York Race Riot of 1969




Chicago Riots Mar the Democratic National Convention




Carroll Becomes the First African American Woman to Star as a Non-domestic on Television




Shirley Chisholm Becomes First African American Woman to Serve in Congress




Republic of New Africa




“Black Manifesto”




Russell Retires as the Celtics Take an Eleventh NBA Title




League of Revolutionary Black Workers




Davis Introduces Jazz-Rock Fusion




Hampton-Clark deaths




Mitchell and Shook Found the Dance Theatre of Harlem




Black United Students is Formed




Congressional Black Caucus




Bloods and Crips Gangs




Evans v. Abney




National Black Women’s Political Leadership Caucus




All in the Family Confronts Controversial Issues




Griggs v. Duke Power Company




US Supreme Court Endorses Busing to End School Segregation




Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education




Griffin v. Breckenridge




Palmer v. Thompson




Civil Rights Groups Investigate the FBI and CIA




Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972




Moose Lodge v. Irvis




Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1




Wonder Releases Innervisions




Bakke case




Combahee River Collective




Aaron Breaks Ruth’s Home Run Record




Milliken v. Bradley




Ali and Foreman Rumble in the Jungle




Albemarle Paper Company v. Moody




Marley’s Natty Dread Establishes Reggae’s Popularity




The Jeffersons Signals Success of Black Situation Comedies




Southern Schools Are Found to Be the Least Racially Segregated




U.S. Congress Bans Literacy Tests for Voting




Voting Rights Act of 1975




U.S. Congress Prohibits Discrimination in the Granting of Credit




Shange’s for colored girls … Presents the Black Female Psyche




Washington v. Davis




Runyon v. McCrary




Roots Dramatizes the African American Experience




United Steelworkers of America v. Weber




Innovative Black Filmmakers Achieve Success




Mobile v. Bolden




Rioters Protest Miami Police Brutality




Fullilove v. Klutznick




Thriller Marks Jackson’s Musical Coming-of-Age




Rainbow Coalition




Jackson’s run for the presidency




MOVE Bombing




The Cosby Show Makes Television History




U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Goals, Not Quotas, to Remedy Discrimination




Batson v. Kentucky




Rap Goes Platinum With Run-D.M.C.’s Raising Hell




National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America




Afrocentrism




Civil Rights Restoration Act




Do The Right Thing Establishes Lee as a World-Class Director




Wilder Becomes the First Elected Black Governor




Hawkins murder




Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company




Bush Nominates Second African American to the Supreme Court




Crown Heights conflicts




Harlins murder




Powers v. Ohio




Thomas-Hill hearings




U.S. Congress Strengthens Equal Opportunity Laws




King beating case




Los Angeles Riots




R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul




Wisconsin v. Mitchell




Shaw v. Reno




Adarand Constructors v. Peña




O. J. Simpson Trial




Farrakhan Leads the Million Man March




Shaw v. Hunt




Tiger Woods Becomes World’s Top-Rated Golfer




Million Woman March




Farmer v. Ramsay




Williams Sisters Meet in Historic Tennis Final




Colin Powell named sixty-fifth secretary of state




African American’s DNA Testing




Gratz v. Bollinger




Grutter v. Bollinger




Barack Obama




Black Church and the LGBT Community




Henry Louis Gates, Jr. hosts first episode of Finding Your Roots




Black Lives Matter




Moynihan Report Revisited




The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum




Unarmed Black Killings by Whites in the Twenty-First Century




Sample List of Unarmed Blacks Killed by Whites Civilians and




Appendixes




Notable Figures in African American History




List of Contributors




Time Line of African American History




Bibliography




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