Celebrating our black history...
- 1619 First African Slaves
- 1773 Phillis Wheatley poetry published
- 1808 US Bans Import of slaves
- 1831 Nat Turner slaves revolt
- 1839 Amistad Slave ship revolt
- 1846 Frederick Douglass
- 1847 Alexander Crummell, Cambridge University's 'first' black student pioneer
- 1849 Harriet Tubman
- 1850 The Underground railroad
- 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 1857 Dred Scott Decision
- 1861 Civil War Begins
- 1863 Emancipation Proclimation
- 1865 Civil War Ends / Lincoln Assassinated
- 1866 - 1875 Civil Rights Act Passed
- 1880 Tuskegee Institute Founded
- 1896 Segregation Legalized
- 1909 NACCP Founded
- 1919 Harlem Renaissance
- 1932 Tuskegee Experiment Begins
- 1954 Browns v Board of Education
- 1955 Rosa Parks Arrested
- 1960 SNCC Founded / Freedom Riders
- 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- 1965 Malcom X is Assassinated
- 1966 - 1967 Thurgood Marchall Appointed to Supreme Court
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- 1968 Martin Luther King Assassinated
- 1980 Robert Johnson Launches BET
- 1986 Oprah Winfrey Debues
- 1989 General Colin Powell Apponted Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff
- 1991 Clarence Thomas Appointed to Supreme Court
- 1992 Carol Mosley Braun Elected to Senate
- 1993 Toni Morrision Awarded Nobel Prize
- 1995 Million Man March
- 2001 Colin Powel Appointed Secretary of State
- 2002 Academy Awards Won by Halle Berry and Denzel Washington
- 2004 Barack Obama Elected Senetor
- 2005 Condoleeza Rice Appointed Secretary of State
- 2008 Paul Ince Appointed 1st Black Premiership Mangager (Blackburn Rovers)
- 2008 Democratic Senator Barack Obama 1st Black US President
- 2008 Usain Bolt breaks 100m and 200m world records - 9.69 and 19.30seconds repectively
- 2009 Usain Bolt breaks 100m world record again - 9.58seconds and 200m 19.19seconds
- 2012 Jamaican relay team smashes 4x100m world record again - 36.84seconds
- 2012 Barack Obama Elected for second consecutive US Presidency
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