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African American History
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Antonio a negro
Antonio was the first African American ever to step foot on American soil. He arrived in Virginia in 1621 where he started working on a tobacco plantation as an indentured servant. -
First Free Born African American
The first African American child born free in the English colonies, William Tucker, is baptized in Virginia. -
An Attempt at Education
Dutch minister Everadus Bogardus summons a teacher from Holland to Manhattan Island to provide religious training to Dutch and African children. This is the first example of educational efforts in Colonial North America which are directed toward persons of African descent. -
More Slavery
Connecticut legalizes slavery. Rhode Island by this time already has large plantations worked by enslaved African Americans. -
Slaves for African Americans
Anthony Johnson, a free African American, imports several enslaved Africans and is given a grant of land on Virginia's Puwgoteague River. -
Slavery Legalized
In Virginia slaves are now fully seen as property. Slavery has existed for some time now, but it is now seen that slaves are the property of their masters. -
Identifying Slaves
South Carolina passes laws requiring enslaved people to wear clothing identifying them as slaves. Freed slaves are required to leave the colony within six months or risk reenslavement. -
Ohio Constitution
Slavery is outlawed, but blacks are not able to vote. -
Lemuel Haynes
Lemuel Haynes is the first African American to receive an honorary degree in U.S. history. It was awarded when Middlebury College awarded him a Master's Degree. -
Read and Write
North Carolina enacts a statute that bans teaching slaves to read and write. -
Women Anti-Slavery
The Female Anti-Slavery Society, the first African American women's abolitionist society, is founded in Salem, Massachusetts. -
Weeping Time
The wealthy plantation owner Pierce Butler sold off all 429 of his slaves in two days. It was the largest single slave acution in U.S history. It is called the Weeping Time because it started raining when the first slave was sold and didn't stop until the last slave was sold. -
Civil War Starts
The first shots of the Civil War are fired. A war between the seceded South and union North over government and social ideals. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln. It freed the nations 4 million slaves, and was enforced by the advancement of the Union Army. -
Right to Vote
The fifthteenth amendment to the Constitution is ratified giving African Americans the right to vote. It states that people will not be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condtion of servitude. -
Hiram Rhodes Revels
He was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. He was also the first African American in the U.S. Congress. He represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws mandated de jure racial segreation in all public facilities. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded after a race riot in Springfield Illnois. It was a call out to the northerners for social equality. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois visiting his relatives in Mississippi. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transport system. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to obey the command to move to the back of the bus for a white passenger. She was arrested and this event became a very famous act in the civil rights movement. -
I Have a Dream
Very famous 17 minute speech by Martin Luther King jr. It was a speech that called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. It was delivered to over 200,000 civil rights activists. -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was an African American revolutionary group. It remained in the United States from 1966 too 1982. They were an intense anti-racism group of that time. It is today considered one of the most significant social and political groups for African American history. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Dr. King was standing on his balcony in Memphis, TN when he was felled by a sniper bullet. A man was arrested after FBI investigation but many believe the FBI was responsible. -
Another First
Barack Obama is the first African American President of the United States.
