1st African-Descended
Individual to Write
About Slave Experience
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AmericanColonization Society:
"Back to Africa" Plan
Financed by Slaveholders
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Black Slave Drivers:
Plantation Owners
Create Caste System
Among African Slaves
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Founder and 1st Bishop
A.M.E. Zion Church
and Publisher of 1st
Black U.S. Newspaper
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1st African-American
to be Granted a Patent
with Invention of Dry Cleaning
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Shakespeare Memorial Theater
Honors 1st and Only
African-Descended Person
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1st Black Woman
to Take White Man to Court
for Freedom and Win
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Appeal to the Coloured
Citizens of the World:
By Any Means Necessary
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1st African American
to Hold a Medical Degree
But Passes as White
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1st African to Address
the Massachusetts State
Legislature to Protest
Racial Discrimination
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By Any Means Necessary:
Call Upon Slaves
to Kill their Masters
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Legal Slavery
Ends in Pennsylvania
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Fugitive Slave Law
Passed by U.S. Congress
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Bootblack Becomes
Wealthy Businessman
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Established 1st
A.M.E. Zion Church
in San Francisco, CA
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1st Legal Challenge
of theFugitive Slave Law of 1850
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U.S. Supreme Court
Decides Lawsuit Filed by
Slave to Secure Freedom
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Manhattan New York:
1st Community Founded
by Former Slaves
Destroyed by City Government
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Slave States Break from
United States of America
forming Confederate States of America
Leading to Civil War
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American Civil War Begins
United States vs Confederate States
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1st Black U.S. Military
Sea Pilot
Escapes to Freedom by Sea
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Homestead Acts 1862:
Union Loyalist, Immigrants
and Freed Slaves Receive
Federal Land for Private Ownership
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From Slavery to
Wealthy Entrepreneur
Founder of 1st African Church
in Los Angeles, California
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1st Secretary of State
of African-Descent
and Superintendant of Public
Instruction of Florida
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Ku Klux Klan Act
U.S. Congressional Legislation
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1st African Descended
Professor at Harvard University
and Inventor of the Golf Tee
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Mob of Ku Klux Klan
Slaughters Chinese Laborers
Over Competition for Jobs
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Mechanical Engineer and Inventor
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1st African-Descended Judge
in the United States
Founder of 1st African
Newspaper in California
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1st African-Descended
Lawyer and Judge Elected
in Jacksonville, Florida
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1st African-Descended
to Earn Ph.D. from
any American University
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Invented Process to Increase
the Life of Lightbulbs
Allowing for Mass Production
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Marriage and Sex
BetweenBlacks and Whites
Made Criminal by Supreme Court
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1st African-Descended
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
After the Civil War
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Pastor of Largest Church
in State of Arkansas
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Awarded Patent for Automatic Opening and Closing Elevator Doors
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"Separate but Equal"
Jim Crow Laws
1890 to 1965
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1st Black Female
Doctor in Alabama
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1st African-Descended
U.S. Mail Carrier
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1st African-Descended
to Receive Doctorate
from Harvard University
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Ragtime:
African Americans Create
1st Truly American Musical Genre
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1st Nationally Recognized
African American Poet
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Establishes Black Hebrew Church
of God and Saints of Christ
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1st New York Musical
by Black Entertainers
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1st Researcher
to Prove that Insects Can Hear
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Last African-Descended
Congressman of the
Jim Crow Era
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Town Founded
by Black Investors
Exclusively for
African-Descended People
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Niagara Civil Rights
Movement Founded
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Pentecostal Movement Begins
with Baptism in the Holy Spirit
and Speaking in Tongues
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Atlanta Georgia:
Racial Cleansing Leads
to Three-Day Race Riot
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Marcus Garvey Jr.
Pan-African Political Leader
1887 - 1940
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Africans-Descendants Terrorized
and Driven From Homes in
Largest U.S. Expulsion
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Racial Cleansing in Corbin, Kentucky
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1st Nationally Acclaimed Black Fashion Designer
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1st African American
to Perform on Radio
and Most Influential in Jazz Piano
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U.S. Concocts Charges to
Justify Deporting Marcus Garvey
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The "Black Metropolis" is Born
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That's Why Darkies Were Born
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1st Black CPA in Georgia
1st Black Radio Station Owner
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1st Black Woman
with Own TV Show
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Bus Boycott Baton Rouge 1953
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Racial Segregation Banned
In Public Schools
By U.S. Supreme Court
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1st African American Lead:
U.S. Army Chorus
Metropolitan Opera
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1st Black Professional
Tennis Champion
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Kwanzaa: 1st Pan-African
Holiday Created
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U.S. Supreme Court:
Interracial Marriage
a Legal Right
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1st Black Woman
to Host Syndicated
Talk Show in the U.S.
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1st Black Woman to Host
Nationally Syndicated Talk Show
and North America's Only Black Billionaire
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1st Black Woman to
Travel in Outer Space
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1st Black American Winner
ofNobel Prize for Literature
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1st Black Woman
in U.S. Navy History
to Hold Rank
of Rear Admiral
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Former Ku Klux Klansman
Convicted 41 Years after Murders
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1st American
of Direct African Decent
Nominated as Presidential
Candidate by a
Major Political Party
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Protest and Riot Over
the Shooting and Killing
of Unarmed Black Man
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1st Black President:
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
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Michael Jackson, Popstar Dies
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1st Black Female CEO
as Head of Fortune 500 Company
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James Anderson
Murdered in Hate Crime
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Family Awarded 2.25 Million
in Shooting Death of
Unarmed Family Member
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Man Killed by Police
"for Selling Single Cigarettes"
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U.S. Little League
World Series Champions
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8 Black Churches
Burned within 10 Days
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6 Black Churches
Burned within 10 Days
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Notable African American
Visionary and Thinker
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