Important Dates
Notable Figures
Sports Landmarks
Entertainment & Culture
Civil Rights
100
Coinciding with the birth of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln, it's Black History Month
What is February?
100
In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional
Who is the Brown family?
100
He led the Bulls to 6 NBA championships in the '90s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
100
This music genre originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Often hailed as "one of America's original art forms"
What is jazz?
100
Lincoln ordered the freedom of slaves inside the Confederacy. An estimated 200,000 slaves are freed as a result of this proclamation.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This year, Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected president of the United States.
What is 2008?
200
She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
200
Named NFL's 2015 MVP.
Who is Cam Newton?
200
Harlem had one of these literary & cultural rebirths in the '20s & '30s
What is a renaissance?
200
Congress passes this act in 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are also made illegal.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
300
Although African Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until this year that President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces.
What is 1948?
300
This Tuskegee Institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team
What is the Dodgers?
300
She became the first African American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar. She took home the award for her role in Monster's Ball.
Who is Halle Berry?
300
Created in 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. The first President of the group was Martin Luther King Jr. (SCLC)
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
400
This is the year that the Civil war ends, the KKK is formed, President Lincoln is assassinated and the 13th Amendment is ratified.
What is 1865?
400
Although she was born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
This 7 foot 1 inch tall man is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in NBA history. In his career he played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Who Wilt Chamberlain?
400
This Harlem Renaissance poet wondered, "What happens to a dream deferred?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This bureau was created by Congress in 1865 to protect the rights of newly emancipated African-Americans in the Confederate States.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
What is 1808?
500
He is known as the first Black Justice of the United States Supreme Court but he is really defined by his work as a civil rights lawyer which redefined life in the United States.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
He is honored by many as the “Jackie Robinson” of hockey, as he was the first Black player in the league’s history. But his efforts to change the culture of the game spanned many decades beyond his playing days.
Who is Willie O'Ree?
500
This neo-expressionist painter used social commentary in his paintings as attacks on power structures and systems of racism.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
500
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
What is the 13th Amendment?
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