United States Seizes
Claim to Hawaii

Town Founded
by Black Investors
exclusively for Blacks

Last African American
Congressman of
the Jim Crow Era

RSDLP
Holds its Second
Congress in Brussels

First Communist
Armed Forces
Evolves from Revolution

Niagara
Civil Rights Movement
Founded

William Joseph Seymour
Founder of the Pentecostal Movement

Racial Cleansing
in Atlanta Georgia:
3-Day Race Riot

Triple Entente
Defense Agreement

U.S. Postal Service
Bans Mailing of
"Lynching Postcards"

NAACP Founded

Japanese Take
Complete Control of
Korean Peninsula

Ruling Chinese Dynasty
Falls: Power Struggle
Nationalist vs Communists

Marcus Garvey, Jr.
Pan-African
Political Leader

Largest Racial Cleansing Event
in U.S. History:
Black Families Terrorized

1st Revolution Leading
to Rise of Soviet Union

Ottoman Rule Ends
Arab and British Troops
Advance into Syria

1st Nationally Acclaimed
Black Fashion Designer

The "Black Metropolis"
South Side Chicago Illinois
and the Regal Theater

"The Red Scare"
1950 - 1956 McCarthyism
Anti-Communism

J. Blaine "Jim" Blayton
Civic Leader of Virginia

T.J. Jemison and the
Bus Boycott of Baton Rouge
June 19 – June 25, 1953

Guyana's Democratically
Elected Government
Toppled by the British

After Dropping Atomic Bombs
the Hydrogen Bomb is Built

Apartheid Education Policy:
South Africa Parliament Enacts
Bantu Education Act, 1953

U.S. Nautilus
1st Nuclear-Powered Submarine

U.S. Supreme Court Rules:
Racial Segregation
Banned in Public Schools

U.S. Supreme Court Rules:
Interracial Marriage
a Legal Right

1st Gay Service Member
to Reveal Sexual Orientation

1st Black American Winner
of Nobel Prize for Literature

Maurice Ashley
The World’s First
Black Chess Grandmaster