African-Americans .. from the 16th century bonds of slavery to the White House; PRESIDENT OBAMA 20.01.09.EARLY 1500s BLACK plantation slavery begins in Central and South America when Spaniards import Africans to replace Indians who died from harsh working conditions and disease. AUGUST 20, 1619 A DUTCH ship with 20 African slaves aboard arrives in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia. 1644 ELEVEN slaves win some freedoms from New Amsterdam (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) government. SEPTEMBER 9, 1739 A SLAVE insurrection leads to the deaths of at least 20 whites and more than 40 blacks near Charleston, South Carolina. 1777 VERMONT is first state to abolish slavery. 1790 PRESIDENT George Washington appoints Benjamin Banneker (right), a free black who owns a farm near Baltimore, to the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). Commission. AUGUST 30, 1800 GABRIEL Prosser organises an uprising of 1,000 armed slaves, but is later hanged. 1817 FREE-BORN black slaves are transported back to West Africa, which leads to the eventual creation of Liberia. 1827 FREEDOM'S Journal, based in New York becomes the first black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States, and included articles criticising lynching and slavery. 1836 ALEXANDER Lucius Twilight becomes the first black elected to public office in the state of Vermont. 1839 FORMER president John Adams successfully defends slaves who revolted on the ship Amistad, at the Supreme Court. 1852 HARRIET Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin stirs up the anti-slavery debate and sells millions of copies. 1861 CIVIL War pits slave-owning Southern states against the abolitionist states in North. JANUARY 1, 1863 ABRAHAM Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. APRIL April: see month. 26, 1865 END of the Civil War, bringing freedom to four million black Americans in the southern Confederate states. 1870 HIRAM Revels of Mississippi becomes the first African-American elected to the US Senate Later the same year, Joseph Hayne Rainey is the first black elected to the US House of Representatives. 1914 SAM Lucas becomes the first black actor to star in a fulllength Hollywood film, playing Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1916 FRITZ Pollard is the first black American football player to be named "All-American" as well as the first black player to appear in a Rose Bowl football game. 1923 PIANIST and orchestrator Fletcher Henderson becomes a bandleader. His prestigious band advances the careers of black musicians such as Louis Armstrong. 1928 CLAUDE McKay publishes Home To Harlem, the first fictional work by an African-American to reach the bestseller lists. 1936 JESSE Owens wins four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, derailing Hitler's use of the games as a show of Aryan supremacy. 1942 BEBOP bebop or bop Jazz characterized by harmonic complexity, convoluted melodic lines, and frequent shifting of rhythmic accent. In the mid-1940s, a group of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, rejected the conventions of is born out of the musical experiments of jazz musicians in Harlem, including saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Thelonious Monk. 1955 ROSA Parks refuses to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama, leading to a year-long bus boycott. 1957 MARTIN Luther King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work for equality. 1959 RAY Charles' What I'd Say becomes a million-selling record. 1960 THE sit-in movement is launched at Greensboro, North Carolina “Greensboro” redirects here. For other uses, see Greensboro (disambiguation). Greensboro, North Carolina (IPA: [ɡɹiːnsbʌɹəʊ]) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. , when black college students insist that they receive service at a local segregated lunch counter. 1963 AFTER a crackdown on civil rights protesters in Alabama, Martin Luther King leads a massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28 1963. During the march, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. , culminating in his historic, electrifying "I Have A Dream" speech. 1964 MARTIN Luther King is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. at 35. He announces he'll give prize money to civil rights cause. APRIL 4, 1968 MARTIN Luther King is assassinated at The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, provoking riots across America. 1977 ALEX Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family is adapted for TV and becomes one of the most popular shows in the history of the United States “American history” redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. The United States of America is located in the middle of the North American continent, with Canada to the north and the United Mexican States to the south. . 1989 PRESIDENT George Bush names General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking overall military officer of the United States military, and the principal military adviser to the President of the United States. , making him the first black officer to hold the highest military post in the US. 2002 Former model Halle Berry is the first African-American woman to be awarded an Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her performance in Monster's Ball - she remains the only black winner in that category to this day. 2005 CONDOLEEZZA Rice is made Secretary of State by George W Bush. 2008 BARACK Obama wins Democrat nomination, beating Hillary Clinton. In the election he sweeps to victory over John McCain. CAPTION(S): Debate.. Uncle Tom; Golden.. Jesse Owens; From every end of this Earth.. Massive celebrations in Washington DC; Brave.. Rosa Parks; Roots.. US TV history |
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