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Congress Allows Enlistments of Blacks into Union Army
HistoryCongress allowed the enlistment of blacks in the Union Army. Some black units precede this date, but they were disbanded as unofficial. Some 186,000 blacks served; of these 38,000 died. -
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Black Codes
Were passed by Suthern States, restricting the rights of newly freed slaves. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in states in rebellion against the United States. -
First Black Legislatures
Edward G. Walker and Charles L. Mitchell were the first blacks in an American legislature. -
Fifteenth Amendment
historyThe Fifteenth Amendment that of which outlawed the denial of the right to vote, was ratified. -
Fourteenth Amendment
historyThe Fourteenth Amendment was passed. It made blacks citizens of the United States. -
Banned Black Discrimination in Public Places
historyCongress passed a Civil Rights Bill which banned discrimination in places of public accommodation. It was overturned in 1393. -
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Spelman College
Spelman Collegewas the first college for black women in the U.S, founded by Sophia B. Packard. -
Reconstruction Ends
historyReconstruction ends. Slowly the north stops helping African Americans in the south. -
Atlanta Compromise
Booker T. Washington delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the Cotton States International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. -
Court Case
In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court give legal backing to the concept of separate but equal public facilities for blacks -
Washington, Carver & Du Bois
They convinced people to plant peanuts. -
NAACP Founded
The NAACP helped blacks fight for their civil rights and freedoms. They held protest and meetings to do such. -
National Urban League
The National Urban League was established. -
Memphis Blues
W. C. Handy published "Memphis Blues." -
Bert Williams plays the lead role in Darktown Jubilee
He was the first African American actor to star in a motion picture. -
The Woodrow Wilson administration
It initiates the racial segregation of work places, rest rooms and lunch rooms in all federal offices across the nation -
World War I began in Europe
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The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is received at Stone Mountain, Georgia. -
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. -
Garrett Morgan
Garrett Morgan uses his newly invented gas mask to rescue men trapped after an explosion in a tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie. -
Croix de Guerre
Some 370,000 African-Americans join the armed forces with more than half serving in the French war zone. Over 1,000 black officers command these troops. The French government awards the Croix de Guerre to 107 African American soldiers. -
NAACP
Nearly 10,000 African Americans and their supporters march down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue as part of a silent parade, an NAACP organized protest against lynchings, race riots, and the denial of rights. Thus was the first major civil rights demonstration in the 20th Century -
Buchanan v. Warley
The Supreme Court in Buchanan v. Warley strikes down the Louisville, Kentucky ordinance mandating segregated neighborhoods. -
Armistice
The Armistice ends World War I. However, the northern migration of African Americans continues. By 1930 there were 1,035,000 more black Americans in the North than in 1910. -
Lynching
The Ku Klux Klan operates in 27 states. 83 African Americans are lynched during the year, among them a number of returning soldiers still in uniform -
Claude A. Barnett
The Associated Negro Press is established in Chicago -
Treaty of Versailles
It was the peace settlement signed after World War I had ended in 1918. The treaty was signed on June 28th 1919. -
Chayse's Grandma
Diane Hill Nov 6,1928 - Now -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. -
Jesse Owens
Jesse entered the 1936 Olympics, held in Nazi Germany. He became the first American track & field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad. -
William H. Hastie, former advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt, is confirmed as the first black federal judge after his appointment by Roosevelt to the federal bench in the Virgin Islands.
William H. Hastie served as the first African American federal judge, appointed by President Roosevelt. He served on the Virgin Islands bench for two years before returning to the Howard University School of Law as dean and professor of law. -
Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia becomes the first African American woman elected to a state legislature
Crystal Bird Fauset was the first African American woman state legislature of Philadelphia. She also founded many groups to help the advancement on Africa American women in society. -
The U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri rules in favor of education for blacks.
In the case, Gaines vs. Canada, the Missouri Courts declared rule on the same education for white children and Afrian Americans. -
The U.S. Army creates the Tuskegee Air Squadron
The Tuskegee Air Squadron later becomes known as the Tuskegee Airman. They were a military experiment to train African Americans to be military pilots. -
President Franklin Roosevelt desegrates the war production plants.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt allows the African Americans to work in factories producing equiptment for the war and also creates the Fair Employment Practices Committee -
Grandma Virginia Fiscus
Kaleb's Grandma. 1941-Now -
The U.S. Marine Corps accepts African American men
The U.S. Marine Corps accepts African American Men for the first time in history into segregated training camp, Camp Montford Point, North Carolina. They become known as the Montford Point Marines. -
Charity Adams Earley becomes the first African American woman commissioned officer
Charity Adams Earley becomes the first African American woman commissioned officer in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps while serving at Fort Des Moines. -
The Naval Academy accepts African American men for the first time.
The Naval Academy at Annapolis and other naval officer schools accept African American men for the first time. -
Two American Navy Destroyer ships are fully staffed with an all African American crew.
Two American Navy Destroyer ships along with the submarine chaser, PC1264 were staffed with an all African American crew for the first time ever. -
Frederick Douglass Patterson establishes the United Negro College Fund
Frederick Douglass Patterson aslo known as Frederick Douglass established the United Nego College Fund in 1944, making it easier for African American to go to college. -
Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. is named ommander of Godman Field, Kentucky.
Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. he is the first African American to command a military base ever, -
FDR dies.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt sadly passes away on April 12th, 1945, in Warm Springs, Geogria, The world was greiving and so was the African American population. FDR was one of the presidents that was working on making life easier, and better for the African American population. -
Japan Surrenders in WWII
Japan surrenders in 1945, by this time, over one million African American man and women have served in the Amerian Military. -
Marian E. Jasicki
Brianna's great-grandma.
July 2, 1930 - June 24, 2011
