1970 Event Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established 1969 Event Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College 1898 Event National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1896 Event National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's 1895 Birthday William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer, Afro-American 1892 Event U.S. black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore 1890 Event National Afro-American League forms in Chicago