1991 Event South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks 1987 Event Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy 1986 Event White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York 1982 Event Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta 1981 Event Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta 1980 Event Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, New York 1971 Event Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia 1971 Event Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks 1970 Event Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) 1968 Event National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks 1967 Event Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested 1965 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks 1964 Event Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine 1963 Event 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school 1963 Event Governor Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama 1962 Event Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill 1962 Event New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North 1957 Event Tuskegee boycott begins, Blacks boycotted city stores 1957 Event Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites 1956 Event White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas 1956 Event Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 1949 Event American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out 1949 Event Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants 1949 Event New York Giants purchase Monty Irvin and Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks 1944 Event Smith vs. Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal 1925 Event 1st U.S. University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans 1919 Event Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured 1919 Event Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks 1919 Event Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed 1918 Event Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) 1917 Event Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas 1917 Event Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed) 1917 Event Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots 1915 Event 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings 1910 Birthday Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks 1909 Event White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks 1906 Event 3,000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia 1898 Event Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed) 1895 Event 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia 1894 Event Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks 1887 Birthday Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among U.S. blacks 1886 Event Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed 1883 Event Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) 1879 Event "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation 1878 Event Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia 1877 Event Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 1875 Event White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg 1873 Event Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) 1870 Event 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps 1870 Event Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1868 Event Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury 1868 Event Opelousas Massacre at St. Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed) 1867 Event General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors 1867 Event Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South 1867 Event Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans 1867 Event Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama 1867 Event Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto 1866 Event House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks) 1865 Event Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks 1865 Event General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks) 1864 Death Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC 1864 Event 1st U.S. Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore 1863 Event Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die 1862 Event Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1862 Event U.S. Army authorized to accept blacks as laborers 1859 Event Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery 1858 Event Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning 1845 Event Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris, Jr., 1st blacks to open law practice 1843 Event 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) 1840 Event 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued 1837 Event Canada gives blacks the right to vote 1830 Event Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported 1827 Event Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada) 1822 Event House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) 1822 Event Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa 1820 Event 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone) 1820 Event U.S. population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%)) 1810 Event 1st insurance co managed by blacks, American Insurance Company of Philadelphia 1804 Event Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 1804 Event Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement 1797 Event Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks 1787 Event Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities 1776 Event Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks 1775 Event General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks 1775 Event Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army 1775 Event Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army 1775 Event Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army 1770 Event Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia 1704 Event Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York City 1700 Event William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
