Black History Timeline

Virginia - hereditary slavery Maryland & Slavery The Pennsylvania Quakers Loving Vs. Virginia Arthur Ash wins the U.S. Open March on Washington EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE - Selma, Alabama Shirley Chisholm Zong Slave Ship Kwanzaa Ely Whitney - The Cotton Gin Nat Turner's Revolt Ida B. Wells Sojourner Truth Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman Benjamin Bannneker Congress abolishes the African slave trade Madam CJ Walker Fair Housing Act of 1968 Condoleezza Rice Colin Powell Barack Obama Little Rock Nine Thurgood Marshall Johnson Products Shirley Chisolm 2.0 Rodney King Mae Jemison Million Man March Million Woman March Kamala Harris Blues Music The Apollo Theater Negro National Anthem First Civil Rights March Legalized Segregation W.E.B. Dubois - The Souls of Black Folk Bethune-Cookman College founded Tulsa Race Massacre - Greenwood District Tuskegee Institute Founded Civil Rights Act Overturned 14th Amendment - Blacks are Granted Citizenship 15th Amendment - Black Men Granted the Right to Vote Dred Scott Decision The Atlanta Compromise The Amistad Plessy v. Ferguson National Association of Colored Women Birth of a Nation Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Christianity and slavery Slavery before the Trans-Atlantic Trade Civil Rights Act Desegrigation of the US Military 13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery Professional Baseball integrated Brown v Board of Education Timbuktu University Voting Rights Act The 1st slave ship launched from MA. * John Punch African slavery begins in America. Massachusetts Beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade The Kush Empire Bacon's Rebellion Women's Suffrage The Harlem Renaissance Abolition & The Underground Railroad The U.S. (Tuskegee) Syphilis Experiment Haitian Revolution United States Civil War Mansa Musa's Rule US Slavery The Great Migration Jim Crow Law (Seperate but Equal) The Empire of Ghana The Oyo Empire