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• 1619 - History of Black America began with landing of twenty Blacks at Jamestown Virginia. John Rolfe said the ship arrived about the latter part of August and that it brought not anything but 20 odd Negroes. Surviving evidence suggests that the twenty Blacks were accorded the status of indentured servants.
  
  
• 1624 - First Black child born in English America christened William at Jamestown
  
  
• 1641 - Massachusetts became the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
  
  
• 1644 - Eleven Blacks petioned for freedom in New Netherlands and were freed
  
  
• 1649 - Virginia census reports 300 Negro servants
  
  
• 1650 - Connecticut gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
  
• 1651 - Anthony Johnson, free Black given 250 acres land in Northampton County VA
  
  
• 1652 - John Johnson, free Black, granted 550 acres in Northampton County VA
  
  
• 1661 - Virginia gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
  
• 1663 - Maryland gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
• 1663 - Slave conspiracy in Gloucester County, VA
  
  
• 1664 - New York and New Jersey gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
• 1664 - Maryland enacted first antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black men and English women
  
  
• 1682 - South Carolina gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
  
• 1688 - First White formal protest against slavery by PA Quakers
  
  
• 1691 - Virginia enacted antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black and White
  
  
• 1700 - Rhode Island and Pennsylvania gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
  
• 1704 - School for Blacks opened in New York by Elias Neau
  
  
• 1705 - Massachusetts enacted antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black and White
  
  
• 1708 - Slave revolt Long Island New York
  
  
• 1712 - Slave revolt in New York City
  
  
• 1715 - North Carolina gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
• 1715 - North Carolina enacted antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black and White
  
  
• 1717 - South Carolina enacted antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black and White
  
  
• 1721 - Delaware enacted antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black and White
  
  
• 1725 - Pennsylvania enacted antiamalgamation law to prevent intermarriage of Black and White
  
  
• 1731 - Benjamin Banneker born in Maryland
  
  
• 1739 - Slave revolt in Stono, SC
  
  
• 1741 - Slave revolt in New York
  
  
• 1746 - Absalom Jones born a slave in Sussex, Delaware
  
  
• 1750 - Georgia gave statutory recognition to slavery
  
  
• 1760 - Richard Allen born in slavery in Philadelphia
  
• 1760 - Jupiter Hammon published An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
  
  
• 1769 - Watt patents steam engine
  
  
• 1770 - Crispus Attucks killed in Boston Massacre
  
• 1770 - Quakers opened school for Blacks in Philadelphia
  
  
• 1773 - Massachusetts slaves petioned the legislature for freedom
  
• 1773 - Phillis Wheatley's book of poems published
  
• 1773 - Pioneer Black church established at Silver Bluff, SC
  
  
• 1775 - Prince Hall initiated into Masons at Ft. Independence, MA
  
  
• 1776 - Revolutionary War Begins
  
  
• 1777 - Vermont abolished slavery
  
  
• 1781 - Los Angeles, California founded by 44 settlers including descendants of Africans
  
  
• 1783 - Massachusetts abolished slavery
  
• 1783 - New Hampshire abolished slavery
  
  
• 1784 - Rhode Island abolished slavery
  
• 1784 - Connecticut abolished slavery
  
  
• 1789 - US Constution Adopted
  
  
• 1790 - Black population of United States 757,208 (19.3%)
  
  
• 1793 - First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress
  
  
• 1794 - Cotton Gin patented by Eli Whitney
  
  
• 1796 - Boston African Society was established
  
  
• 1797 - Soujourner Truth born a slave in Hurley, NY
  
  
• 1799 - New York abolished slavery (gradual emancipation)
  
  
• 1804 - New Jersey abolished slavery
  
• 1804 - Ohio passed Black Laws restricting rights of free Blacks
  
  
• 1807 - US Congress banned the slave trade efective January 1808
  
  
• 1810 - Black population of US 1,377,808 (19%)
  
• 1810 - American Insurace Company of Philadelphia established, Black managed
  
  
• 1811 - Louisiana slave revolt
  
  
• 1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organized at Philadelphia
  
• 1816 - American Colonization Society organized in House of representatives
  
  
• 1817 - Frederick Douglass born in Talbot County Maryland
  
  
• 1818 - First Seminole War ended. Indians and Blacks defeated
  
  
• 1820 - US Black population 1,771,656 (18.4%)
  
• 1820 - Mayflower of Liberia arived in Sierra Leone with 86 Blacks from New York
  
  
• 1822 - Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy defeated. Charleston, SC
  
• 1822 - Hiram revels born free Fayeteville, NC
  
  
• 1827 - Slavery abolished in New York State
  
• 1827 - First Black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, published in New York
  
  
• 1829 - Race riot in Cincinatti, Ohio. Over 1,000 Blacks moved to Canada
  
• 1829 - Walker's Appeal published in Boston by David Walker (Antislavery pamphlet)
  
  
• 1830 - Black population of US 2,328,642 (18.1%)
  
• 1830 - Blacks forcibly deported from Portsmouth Ohio by city officials
  
  
• 1831 - Nat Turner rebellion, Southhampton County, VA
  
  
• 1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society organized
  
  
• 1834 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire
  
  
• 1837 - Cheyney State Training School established in Pennsylvania
  
  
• 1838 - Charles Lenox Redmon began his career as an anti-slavery agent
  
• 1838 - Mirror of Liberty published
  
  
• 1839 - Robert Smalls born in Beaufort, SC
  
• 1839 - Amistad slave ship mutiny
  
• 1839 - Seminoles and Black allies shipped from Tampa Bay, FL to the West
  
• 1839 - Liberty Party organized at Warsaw, NY
  
  
• 1841 - Blanche Kelso Bruce born a slave in Prince Edward County VA
  
• 1841 - US Supreme Court freed Joseph Cinquez and Amistad rebels
  
• 1841 - Slave revolt on the Creole en route from Hampton VA to New Orleans
  
  
• 1845 - Macon B. Allen admitted to the bar passed exam in Worcester, MA
  
• 1845 - Frederick Douglass published Narratives of Frederick Douglass
  
• 1845 - GEORGE BENHAM born Laurens County SC
  
  
• 1846 - HARRIET HENDRIX born Haralson County GA
  
  
• 1847 - Liberia declared an independent republic by President Joseph Roberts
  
  
• 1848 - Revolutions Sweep Europe, Marx publishes Communist Manifesto
  
  
• 1850 - HARRIET BENHAM born Bartow County GA
  
  
• 1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin published
  
  
• 1861 - US Civil War Begins
  
  
• 1865 - US Civil War Ends.
  
• 1865 - EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION !!!!!
  
  
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian war
  
  
• 1871 - Darwin publishes "Descent of Man"
  
  
• 1877 - Edison invents phonograph
  
  
• 1885 - Benz builds first gasoline powered car
  
• 1885 - Eastman invents box camera
  
  
• 1892 - ETTA AUGUSTA BELL born Cleburne County AL
  
  
• 1898 - US defeats Spain, recognized as world power
  
  
• 1903 - Wright brothers fly for 12 seconds
  
  
• 1908 - Model-T Ford built
  
  
• 1913 - Mina Elizabeth BENHAM born Calhoun County AL
  
  
• 1914 - WWI Begins
  
  
• 1915 - Eastland sinks in Chicago River
  
  
• 1918 - WWI Ends
  
  
• 1919 - Clennon Washington King and Margaret Allegra Slater wed 18 August at Milledgeville
  
  
• 1922 - Mussssolini comes to power in Italy
  
  
• 1925 - Etta Augusta Bell married to Moultrie Benham at Anniston, AL
  
  
• 1929 - October, Great Stock Market Crash Starts Depression
  
  
• 1930 - The Green Pastures opened at Mansfield Theatre
  
• 1930 - Delta Sigma Theta is incorporated
  
  
• 1931 - Walter White named NAACP executive secretary
  
• 1931 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett deceased
  
• 1931 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president
  
  
• 1933 - Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
  
• 1933 - Los Angeles Sentinel founded by Leon H. Washington.
  
  
• 1934 - W.E.B. DuBois resigned from NAACP in policy strategy dispute
  
  
• 1935 - Joe Louis defeated Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium
  
• 1935 - Italy invaded Ethiopia
  
• 1935 - Mary McLoud Bethune founded National Council of Negro Women
  
• 1935 - Michigan Chronicle founded by Louis F. Martin.
  
  
• 1936 - Jesse Owens won four gold medals at Olympics, Berlin
  
  
• 1937 - Joe Louis defeated Jimmy Bradock
  
• 1937 - William H. Hastie confirmed first Black federal Judge.
  
• 1937 - Bessie Smith died near Clarksdale MS
  
• 1937 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters recognized by Pullman Company
  
  
• 1938 - MOULTRIE BENHAM , Sr., died November 17 at Anniston, AL
  
  
• 1939 - September, WWII Begins In Europe
  
• 1939 - Marian Anderson sang at Lincoln Monument on Easter Sunday
  
• 1939 - Thurgood Marshall heads NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc
  
  
• 1940 - Black population in US 12,865,518 (9.8%)
  
• 1940 - Richard Wright published Native Son
  
• 1940 - Marcus Garvey died at age 52 in London, England
  
• 1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis named 1st Black general in the regular army
  
  
• 1941 - December, US Enters WWII
  
• 1941 - Dorie Miller awarded the Navy Cross
  
  
• 1945 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died 12 April
  
• 1945 - United Nations founded at San Francisco 25 April
  
• 1945 - Germany surrendered 8 May
  
• 1945 - Col. B.O. Davis Jr named commander of Goodman Field KY.
  
• 1945 - Japanese surrendered on VJ day ending WWII 2 September
  
• 1945 - Jesse James Payne lynched in Madison County FL 12 October
  
• 1945 - Brooklyn Dodgers signs Jackie Robinson 23 October
  
• 1945 - Ebony magazine publishes first issue by John H. Johnson 1 November
  
  
• 1946 - Dr. Charles S. Johnson became first Black president of Fisk University
  
  
• 1947 - NAACP petition on racisim "An Appeal to the World presented to United Nations"
  
  
• 1948 - President Truman sent Congress a message urging adoption of a civil rights program
  
• 1948 - Rosa Ingram and two teen sons condemmed to death for murder of white man
  
• 1948 - President Truman issued Executive Order #9981 directing military equality of opportunity
  
• 1948 - Ralph J. Bunche confirmed UN Mediator in Palestine, 18 September
  
• 1948 - California Supreme Court voided Calif statue banning interracial marriages 1 October
  
• 1948 - Channing H. Tobias (Slater kin) presented Spingarn 1 October
  
  
• 1949 - Joe Louis retired 1 March
  
• 1949 - Ezzard Charles defeated Jersey Joe Walcott 22 June
  
• 1949 - WERD, first Black owned radio station opened in Atlanta
  
• 1949 - Ralph Bunche received Spingarn Medal 25 November
  
  
• 1950 - Black Population in U S 15,042, 286 ( 10%)
  
• 1950 - Death of Charles R Drew 1 April
  
• 1950 - Death of Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History 3 April
  
• 1950 - U S Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation in three land mark cases
  
• 1950 - Sweatt v. Painter, McLaurin v. Oaklahoma state Regents and Henderson v. United States
  
• 1950 - Charles H. Hamilton awarded the Spingarn Medal posthumously September
  
  
• 1951 - Racial segregation in DC restaurants ruled illegal 24 May
  
• 1951 - Mob of 3,500 tried to keep Black family out of Cicero IL. Gov call National Guard 24 May
  
• 1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson of Ebony 1 November
  
• 1951 - Harry T. Moore, NAACP official killed by bomb in Mims, FL 25 December
  
• 1951 - Spingarn Medal presented to Mabel K. Staupers for leadership in nursing
  
  
• 1952 - Tuskegee Instute reported no lynchings in America for first time in 71 years of tabulation
  
• 1952 - Spingarn presented to Harry T. Moore posthumously for civil rights leadership
  
  
• 1953 - Spingarn presented to Paul R. Williams for achievements as an architect
  
  
• 1955 - Death of Mary McLeod Bethune 18 May at Daytona Beach FL 18 May
  
• 1955 - Supreme Court ordered school intergration "with all deliberate speed" 31 May
  
• 1955 - Emmett Till lynched in Money, Mississippi 28 August
  
• 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man 1 Dec Montgomery, AL
  
• 1955 - Spingarn presented Carl Murphy of Baltimore Afro-American for civil rights and publishing leadership
  
  
• 1956 - First Satellite launched
  
• 1956 - Martin Luther King, Jr., home in Montgomery, AL bombed 30 January
  
• 1956 - Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama 3 February. She was suspended 7 February after a riot at the University and expelled 29 February.
  
  
• 1969 - Slater Hunter King, Sr. killed at Dawson, GA auto accident
  
  
• 1971 - Whitney Young died
  
  
• 1991 - Mina Benham Wood relocated to 516 Lara Lane March
  
  
• 1995 - Mina Benham Wood Died 21 Sept in Anniston, AL
  
  
• 1996 - Lines Choreography performed at Kennedy Center, DC
  

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