1991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
1987 Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, New York
1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia
1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks
1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
1964 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine
1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1957 Tuskegee boycott begins, Blacks boycotted city stores
1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1956 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 American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out
1949 Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants
1949 New York Giants purchase Monty Irvin and Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks
1944 Smith vs. Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal
1925 1st U.S. University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1919 Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured
1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
1919 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)
1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas
1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed)
1917 Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings
1910 Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks
1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1906 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Phila
1898 Race riot in Wilmington North Carolina (8 blacks killed)
1895 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
1887 Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among U.S. blacks
1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury
1868 Opelousas Massacre at St. Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1867 Gen E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors
1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South
1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1865 Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks
1865 Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
1864 1st U.S. Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1863 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die
1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president
1862 U.S. Army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1845 Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1843 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote
1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1822 Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1820 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone)
1820 U.S. population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York City
1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
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