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A black navigator. He traveled with Christopher Columbus on the first trip to the new world.
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The first arrivial of slaves in Virginia. Triangle Trade gets started with the selling of slaves.
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The First known black poet. Her poem "Bars Fight" was writen in 1746, is the earliest existing poem by an African American. The poem didn't get published until 1855.
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She is the first african-American to be bublished. Her book " Poems on various subjects, religions and moral" is bublished
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Vermont is the first state toabolish slavery.
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He was the first free black man to start his own busness and was granted a patant.
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The Africa-American Company became the first African-American drama group to produce and preform play at the African Grove in New York City.
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first abolishionest to speek out against slavery.
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Group of 60 slaves led by Nat Turner killed 60 white plantation owners in south hampton virginia. As a result of this 100 blacks were killed.
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First African-American state official is elected. He is also the first african-american to earn a bachlors degree from an american college in 1833.
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Self educated slave escapes from slavery and startedand an anti-slavery paper called the North Star.
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starts the underground railroad to free slaves in the south by bringing them to the north.
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Black chemist who found many ways to use peanuts.
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Founded the NAACP Wich helped balcks get equal rights.
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It freed all of the slaves that suceeded from the union.
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It freed all of the slaves, and made slavery illigal in the Untied States.
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Terrorist social group in the south that linched blacks without giving a trial.
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Black educator who encuraged other blacks to better themselves threw education.
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Court case whare NAACP told a man to refuse to sit in the train car reserved for blacks.
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Supreme court case that took the right for blacks to vote away by giving literacy test and pole taxes.
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First black millionare to make money off marketing beauty and hair products for black women.
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Woman refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the Middlesex county bus system.
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First surgery in history done to sucessfuly separate conjoined twins at the hip.
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Refused to give her seat to a white man.
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Over 200,000 people marched on washington and whare Martin Luther King jr. gives his first speech.
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First black supreme court judge.
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Doris A. Davis is the first African American women Mayor of a U.S. city.
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Author Ashe is the only black man to win the singles game title at Wimbledon the U.S. open or the Austrailan Open
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Martin Luther Kings birthday is celebratd as a holiday for the first time.
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Barbara is the first women to be elected to the house of representatives
