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A group of 19 slaves are imported to Jamestown Colony in current day Virginia, beginning the American slave trade.
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Anthony Benezet founded The African School for Blacks was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Benezet was also the founder of the Abolitionist Society.
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The Declaration of Independence is signed, helping to form an American nation.
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Harriet Jacobs moves in with a patron who teaches her to read, write, and sew after her mother dies.
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Young Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
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Prudence Crandall, an educational advocate, opens school for young women of color.
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The Supreme Court decides that American society, including public schooling, should work on the "Seperate but Equal" doctrine, allowing segregation to continue in the United States.
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Booker T. Washington publishes Up From Slavery
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W.E.B. Du Bois publishes the Talented Tenth, where he states that African Americans should rely on the talented members of their own community in order to raise themselves up.
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Supreme Court decides on Brown v. Board of Education, philosophically ending the "Seperate but Equal" doctrine.
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The Little Rock Nine enter Little Rock Central High School amid protests.
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Ruby Bridges is the only student at an all-white school in New Orleans due to parents pulling their children from school in order to protest integration.
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The controversial Autobiography of Malcolm X is published after Malcolm X's assination in 1965.
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In a Supreme Court decision, it was decided that integration should be enforced upon school districts with a lack of diversity.
