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Lincoln ask for only 3-month service from volunteers
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Lincoln declares blockade of the South
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Richmond, VA is chosen as the Confederate capital
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Ironclad Ship Battle between the Merricac (Confederate) and the Monitor (Union)
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Seige of Pittsburg- Confederate Victory
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Lincoln declares all slaves free
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Battle of Vicksburg- Union victory which gives them control of the Mississippi River
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Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
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Grant appointed Commander- In- Cheif of Union Army
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Seige of Pittsburg- Confederate Victory
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Lincoln reelected for President of the United States
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Battle of Savannah- Union Victory
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Appomattax Courthouse- Confederate Commander- In- Cheif Lee surrenders to Grant (Union Commander- In- Cheif
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President Abraham Lincoln is assasinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Last Confederate soldier surrenders
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William is born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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Graduated from Barrington High School as valedictorian
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Graduates from Fisk University
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Obtains A.B. from Harvard University in psychology
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Publishes the Philadelphia Negro
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Elected as the secretary of Pan-African Conference
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Co-Founds NAACP
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William leads silent protest against "Jim Crow" laws & lynching
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Publishes "Dark Princess: A Romance"
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Publishes the essay "Black Reconstruction"
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Returns to Atlanta University as Professor of Sociology
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Publishes "Color & Democracy: Color and Peace"
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Leads ban against atomic bomb
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Publishes the "Ordeal of Mansmart"
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William died on this date