15 important events in black history By hannahrodgers 1619 Africans endentured servants brought to Jamestown VA 1775 Thomas Paine Publishes Anti-Slavery Tract 1779 Battle of Trenton, December 25, 1779 1780 Massachusetts Grants African-Americans Right to Vote 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1839 Amistad Case 1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 1890 First Poll Tax Passed 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 1911 National Urban League Founded 1919 Red Summer Race Riots 1939 Marian Anderson Performs at Lincoln Memorial 1947 Breaking the Color Line in Baseball 1983 First African-American Miss America 2008 Obama Election
