John R Lynch was born, 1847

Slavery

Great Britain enters the Atlantic slave trade after Sir John Hawkins carries enslaved Africans from Portugese Africa to Latin America and sells them to Spanish planters.

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Jan

0

1562

John H. Johnson

John H. Johnson published first issue of Negro Digest.

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Nov

1

1942

Chavis, John (1763-1838)

John Chavis, early 19th Century minister and teacher, was the first African American to graduate from a college or university in the United States. Chavis was born on October 18, 1763. His place of birth is debated by historians. Some scholars think that Chavis hailed from the West

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Oct

18

1763

Lynch, John Roy (1847-1939)

John Roy Lynch, congressman, soldier, and author was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana on September 10, 1847 to Patrick Lynch, an Irish immigrant and Catherine White, a slave. Lynch’s father died soon after his birth. Lynch and his mother were then traded to a plantation in

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Nov

2

1939

Portrait of Black Chicago

The captions are John White`s own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several

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Legal

The first black lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court ws John S. Rock of Massachusetts, who was certified by the court on February 1, 1865.

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Feb

1

1865

History of Black America began like this

History of Black America began with landing of twenty Blacks at Jamestown, Virginia. John Rolfe said the ship arrived about the latter end of August and that it brought not anything but 20 and odd Negroes. Surviving evidence suggests that the twenty Blacks were accorded the status of indentured

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Aug

1

1619

Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770)

Crispus Attucks, the first martyr of the Boston Massacre in 1770, was probably born near Framingham, Massachusetts, a Christianized and multitribal town of Indians, whites, and blacks, in 1723. Unusually tall for the era at six feet, two inches, Attucks was of mixed ancestry,the son of an African

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de Sousa, Matthias ( ? -- ? )

Matthias de Sousa, an indentured servant, was the only black person to serve in the colonial Maryland legislature. As such he is the first African American to sit in any legislative body in what would become the United

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Alabama State University [Montgomery] (1867-- )

Alabama State University is a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded less than two years after the end of the Civil War as the Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama, it is one of the oldest HBCUs in the United States. Nine ex-slaves, Joey Pinch, Thomas

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Jun

30

1880

Death of John Mercer Langston

Death of John Mercer Langston (67), Washington, D.C. One hundred and twenty-three Blacks reported lynched in 1897.

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Nov

15

1897

Coach John Thompson

Coach John Thompson of Georgetown University becomes the first Black coach to win the NCAA basketball tournament.

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Apr

2

1984

1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Ken

1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.

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Nov

10

1999

(1906) W.E.B. DuBois, “Men of Niagara”

In 1906, one year after the Niagara Movement was founded, it held its second annual meeting at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding member and its titular leader, gave the address below to the assembled civil rights

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John Morront becomes 1st black missionary to work withIndians is ordained as

John Morront becomes 1st black missionary to work with Indians is ordained as a methodist misinister in London,England

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May

15

1795

Documentary Films on Blackpast.org - African American History - Director

A&E Television Americas Black Warriors (on World War II) 1998

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Two surviving Soledad Brothers

Two surviving Soledad Brothers, Fleeta Dumgo and John Cluchette, acquitted by an all-white jury of charges that they killed a white guard at Soledad Prison in 1970. Third Soledad Brother, George Jackson, was killed in August, 1971, in alleged escape attempt.

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Mar

28

1972

Setting Aside Race: Selected Books by Black Authors in Which Blackness is Not the Predominant Theme

Compiled by Robert Fikes, Jr., Librarian

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Vaughan, Sarah

Vaughan, Sarah (Sarah Lois Vaughan), 1924–90, American jazz singer, b. Newark, N.J. Nicknamed Sassie, she studied piano and organ, began singing in her church choir, and won (1942) the famous amateur contest at Harlems Apollo Theater. Subsequently, she sang with bands led by Earl Fatha Hines

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Cuba

In 1961, a U.S.-backed group of Cuban exiles invaded Cuba. Planned during the Eisenhower administration, the invasion was given the go-ahead by President John Kennedy, although he refused to give U.S. air support. The landing at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, was a fiasco. The invaders did not

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Apr

17

1961

Baptising of the First Two Known Converts

England John Wesley baptisted the first two known Black converts to the Methodism movement.

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Nov

29

1758

Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill has five children with Rohan Marley, son of reggae legend Bob Marley: Zion David Hill-Marley (born 1997), Selah Marley (b. 1998), Joshua Marley (b. 2002), John Marley (b. 2003) and a baby girl born in 2008, whose name she has not publicly revealed… She and Marley have never married… On

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John H. Ricard

John H. Ricard was named in 1996 as the head of the Catholic Relief Services. He was the first black to lead the aid agency.

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Jan

0

1996

Spelman College opened

Spelman College, an institution sponsored by John D. Rockefellers family, opened for Negro women in Atlanta, Georgia. It became the Radcliffe and the Sarah Lawrence of Negro education.

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Apr

11

1881

Maynor, Dorothy Leigh (1910–1996)

Dorothy Leigh Maynor was an international concert soprano, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, the first African American to sing at an American president’s inauguration (Harry S. Truman’s, on January 20, 1949), the first African-American artist to perform at Constitution Hall, the first

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Kennedy Defeated Nixon

John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in the presidential election.

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Nov

8

1960

Slavery

Gov. Theophilus Eaton of the New Haven, CT, colony frees his slaves, John Wham and his wife; this is the earliest account of free blacks in New England, as recorded in the Public Records of the State of Connecticut.

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Jan

0

1646

Jet magazine founded

Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony magazine.

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Nov

1

1951

John V. DeGrasse

John V. DeGrasse, prominent physician, admitted to Massachusetts Medical Society.

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Aug

24

1854

Belle, Dido Elizabeth (1761-1804)

Dido Elizabeth Belle is best known for the 1779 painting of her alongside her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, the great-niece of William Murray, The First Earl of Mansfield. The Earl, also known as Lord Mansfield, was at the time the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the highest ranking

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Dec

5

1793

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