TIMELINEOF
OF
AFRICAN
AA
TIMELINE
AFRICAN
AMERICAN
AMERICANHISTORY
HISTORY
BY: AASHANTAA LOWE
AP US HISTORY PER 4
5-20-06
CRISPUS ATTUCKS
was a Bostonion killed at
the Boston Massacre.
HARRIET ROSS
TUBMAN
HELPED MORE
THAN 300
SLAVES ESCAPE
TO FREEDOM
DR. MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR. CIVIL RIGHTS
ACTIVIST
THE BEGINNING OF SLAVERY
1492-1865
1441-1481
1441Captain Goncalvez marked the
direct involvement in the
African slave trade with
Europe.
1441-1444
First time slave voyages netting
49 slaves form African gold
coast to Portugal
1481
Red line: Portuguese slave
routes
Elmina castle which was a
slave fortress is built on the
African gold coast by
Portuguese
1492
Negro servants , slaves, and
explorers came to the New
World with the first
Spanish and French
explorers. Pedro Alonso
Nino of Columbus’ crew
is identified as a Negro by
some scholars. Negroes
were also with Balboa,
Ponce De Leon, Pizarro
and Menendez.
1502
• During Columbus’s
last voyage, Diego
el Negro who was
black was one of
the crew members
on the Capitana.
1526
• Negro slaves in the
first settlement in the
United states, a
Spanish colony,
revolted and fled to
the Indians.
1538
• Estevancio, considered
the greatest African
American explorer, led
an expedition from
Mexico and
discovered what today
is now Arizona and
New Mexico.
1565
• Menendez De Aviles,
founded the city of St.
Augustine, Florida.
Making it the first
establishment in the
New World. Living on
this establishment
were African slaves.
1619-1624
• Approximately 20 blacks
are bought from a Dutch
slaver as indentured
workers, for the English
settlement of James town.
They are the first Africans
in the North American
colonies.
1624
William Tucker, first
Negro born in English
America, and is baptized
1626-1641
• First African slaves arrive
in New Amsterdam
• 1634
Slavery is introduced in
Maryland
1641
Massachusetts permits
slavery of Indians, Whites,
and Negroes.
1641-1651
Mathias De Sousa, an
African indentured servant
is elected to Maryland’s
general assembly.
1642
Virginia passes fugitive slave
law.
1650
Connecticut legalizes slavery
1651
Anthony Johnson, a free
African American, imports
several enslaved Africans .
1652
Massachusetts enacts a law
requiring all Indian and
African slaves to undergo
military training to be able
to defend the colony in the
time of war.
- first law against slavery
enacted in Rhode Island.
1656
In fear of a slave uprising
Massachusetts prohibits
blacks form training as
militia.
1663
• First serious slave
conspiracy in colonial
America uncovered.
• 1664
Interracial marriages banned
1688
First formal protest against
slavery in the Western
Hemisphere made by
Germantown Quakers.
1690
All English colonies in
America have slaves.
1704-1739
• School for Negro slaves
opened in New York by
Elias Neau, a Frenchman.
• 1712
Slave revolt in New York, 9
whites killed, 21 slaves
executed.
1739
Slave revolt in South
Carolina, 25 whites
executed.
1741-1770
• Series of suspicions lead to 31 slave executions and 5
whites.
• 1750- Crispus Attucks, escapes from his masters in
Massachusetts.
• 1762- James Derham, a born slave recognized as the first
Negro physician in America
• 1770- Crispus Attucks was the first of five persons killed
in the Boston Massacre
• 1773- First Negro Baptist church organized at Silver
Bluff, South Carolina.
• 1775- first abolition society in the U.s organized.
• Negro and white minutemen fought at Lexington and
Concord
1775
Negro patriots participated in
first aggressive action of
American forces. Ethan
Allan Greene captures fort
Ticonderoga with the
mountain boys.
Negro soldiers fought at the
battle of Bunker hill, Peter
Salem was considered a
hero. Later laws were
passed banning the
recruitment of Negroes.
General George Washington
ordered recruiting officers
to recruit Negroes
regardless.
1776-1777
• Declaration of
independence adopted
July 4.
• 1777- Vermont
becomes the first state
to abolish slavery.
1787
RICHARD ALLEN
• Richard Allen and
Absalom Jones organized
Philadelphia’s Free
African Society.
• Continental congress
excluded slavery from
Northwest territory
• Constitution approved by
delegates with three
clauses protecting slavery.
• First free school in New
York City, the African
Free School.
1790
• Negro population 757,208.
• Jean Baptise Point Du Sable,
made the first permanent
settlement at Chicago.
• 1791- commander Touissant l
overture led the Haitian
revolution against the French
• 1793- first fugitive slave law
enacted by congress.
• 1794- Eli Whitney patens the
cotton gin
• 1797- Congress refuse to accept
first ever recorded petition by
American Negroes.
• Sojourner Truth born a slave
Hurley, New York
1800
BENJAMIN
BANNEKER 1731-1805
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Negro population 1,002,037
John Brown is born Torrington,
Conn.
Nat Turner is born Southampton,
Va.
1804-Jean Jacques Dessalines
proclaims independence of Haiti.
Ohio enacts first black laws
JOHN BROWN BECAME THE
FIRST BLACK EVER TO SET
FOOT IN SAN DIEGO
1805- Benjamin Banneker dies
William Lloyd Garrison born
Newburyport, Mass.
1807- President Jefferson signs bill
which bans the slave trade
1809
• Abraham Lincoln born
Hardin County, Ky
• Negro population
1,377,808
• 1812- Negroes fought
on land and water in
the war of 1812.
1812
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS • Two battalions of
Negro soldiers were
DEC.1814- JAN. 1815
with Andrew Jackson
when he defeated the
British at the battle of
New Orleans.
1817
JOHN RUSSWURM
1799-1851
• Fredrick Douglas born a slave
• 1818-Andrew Jackson defeats a
force of Indians and Negroes at
Battle of Suwannee.
• 1820-Missouri Compromise
enacted prohibiting slavery to
the north of Missouri’s southern
border
• 1822- Denmark Vesey’s plot for
a revolt discovered. 131
Negroes arrested, 4 whites, 37
hanged
• 1826- John Russwurm,
becomes first Negro college
graduate
1827
NAT TURNER 1800-1831
• First Negro newspaper,
“Freedoms Journal,”
published
• Slavery abolished in New
York
• 1831-William Lloyd
Garrison prints first issue
of “Liberator”
• Nat Turner revolt kills 60
whites. Nat Turner was
later hanged.
• 1834- Slavery abolished in
British Empire.
1838
“Mirror of Liberty”, first
Negro magazine
published in New York
by David Ruggles.
Fredrick Douglas
escapes from slavery.
A COPY OF DAVID
RUGGLES WORK
RUGGLES 1810 - 1849
1847
• Dred Scott case begins in St.
Louis.
• Fredrick Douglas publishes the
first issues of “ North Star”
• 1848-NATHANIEL
HARRISON BECAME THE
FIRST PERMENANT
RESIDENT IN SAN DIEGO
• 1849- Harriet Tubman escapes
slavery and returns 19 times
freeing more than 300 slaves
FREDRICK DOUGLAS 1817- 1895
1850
• Negro population 3,638,808
• Fugitive slave Act passed as
part of the Compromise of
1850.
• 1852- First editions of “ Uncle
Toms Cabin”, are issued.
• 1854- Lincoln University the
first Negro college established.
• Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed
Missouri Compromise, opened
northern territory to slavery.
• 1855- John Mercer Langston
becomes first Negro to win
elective office.
1856
DREDD SCOTT
• Booker T. Washington is
born a slave Franklin
county,Va.
• 1857- Dred Scott decision
by U.S Supreme Court
opened federal territory to
slavery and denied
citizenship to American
Negroes.
• 1858- “The Escape”, first
play by a Negro
published.
1859
JOHN BROWN
• John Brown attacks
Harpers Ferry, Va., with
13 white men and 5
Negroes . John Brown was
later captured and hanged.
• 1860- Negro population
4,441,830
• Abraham Lincoln elected
president
• 16 Negro soldiers received
Congressional Medals of
Honor during civil war.
1861
• Secretary of the navy
authorizes enlistment
of Negroes.
• 1862- President
Lincoln recommends
to congress gradual
compensated
emancipation.
1862
• Congress allows the enlistment of blacks in the
Union Army.
• President Lincoln submits draft of Emancipation
Proclamation to his cabinet.
• 1863- President Lincoln signs the Emancipation
Proclamation
• 1865- The 13th amendment, outlawing slavery,
was passed by congress.
• 1866- Edward G. Walker and Charles L. Mitchell
were the first blacks to sit in an American
legislature.
1866
• The Buffalo soldiers are created
by congress.
• 1868- The South Carolina
house became the first and only
legislature to have a black
majority
• The 14th amendment passed
making black citizens of the
United states.
• 1870- 15th ratified, which
denied the right to vote for
blacks.
• 1895-Booker T. Washington
delivered the “Atlanta
Compromise”
THE BUFFALO
SOLDIERS 1866
1896
In Plessy v. Ferguson the
supreme court give legal
baking to the concept of
separate but equal
facilities.
1905-W.E.B Du Bois leader
of the meeting that sprung
the Niagara movement
1910-National Urban League
established
1918- First Pan- African
congress met in Paris
under W.E.B Du Bois
guidance.
1920
• Marcus Garvey is charged
with mail fraud, he is
convicted and deported
after serving prison time.
• 1922- Beginning of
Harlem Renaissance
• 1936- Jesse Owens wins
four gold medals at
summer Olympics in
Berlin
• 1937- Joe Louis defeats
James J. Braddock to
become heavy weight
champion of the world
1940
• Benjamin O. Davis Sr.,
became the first black
general in the United
States Army.
• 1944- The United Negro
College Fund.
• 1947- Jackie Robinson
became the first black to
play Major League
Baseball.
• 1952- Tuskegee reports
the first year without
lynching
1954
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Condoleeza Rice is born. She became Secretary of State for the president of
the United States in 2001.
In Brown v. Board of education of Topeka Kansas, the supreme court
completed overturning legal school segregation at all levels.
1955- Rosa parks refuses to change seats in a Montgomery, Alabama bus. This
caused black all over Alabama to boycott the the bus system which continued
shortly after 1956.
1957- Southern Christian leadership Conference was formed with Martin
Luther King as president.
1963- Under Dr. Kings leadership blacks began to campaign against
discrimination in Birmingham.
The march on Washington was the biggest civil rights demonstration ever.
1964- Malcolm X announces his split form Elijah Muhammad's Nation Of
Islam
1965- Malcolm X is assassinated by members of the Nation Of Islam.
MALCOM X
•The Black Panther Party
was founded by the Huey P.
Newton and Bobby Seale in
Oakland, California.
•1967- this was the worst
summer for racial disturbances
occurred.
•Martin Luther King was
assassinated in Memphis,
Tennessee.
•1969- The Supreme Court
ruled that racial segregation in
schools must end.
•1974- Henry Aaron hit his
715th homerun to become the
all-time leading hitter of
homeruns.
•1983- President Ronald
Regan signed a bill
establishing January 20th a
national holiday honoring
Martin Luther King.
1966
1986
•The first national Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday was celebrated.
•1987- Fredrick Drew Gregory was the first
black to command a space shuttle.
1988
1988- Aashantaa Lowe was born
September 30, 1988 to LaSondra
Lowe and LaJohn Vanreed in San
Diego, California.
1988- Bill Cosby donates 20,000,000
to Spelman College. The largest
donation ever made by a black.
1989- General Colin Powell was
named chair of the United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1990- Nelson Mandela was freed from
a South African prison after 25
years.
1991- Ronald Burris became the first
black attorney general of Illinois.
AASHANTAA LOWE
AUTHOR OF THIS TIME LINE
1992
• “The Cosby Show” broadcast
the final original episode of its
highly successful eight season
run.
• Jackie Joyner Kersee was the
first woman to repeat as
Olympic heptathlon champion.
• Mae C. Jemison was the first
black woman in space.
• Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois
was the first black woman ever
elected to the United States
Senate.
1993
M. Jocelyn Elders became the first
black and the first woman
United States Surgeon General.
- Toni Morrison was the first
black American to win the
Nobel Piece prize in Literature.
- 1995- The million man march
was held in Washington D.C.
- 1997- Betty Shabazz widow of
Malcolm X dies in fire in her
apartment in New York.
- Black American women
participated in the million woman
march in Philadelphia.
1998
•
James Farmer 1 of 15 men awarded
the medal of Freedom by president
Clinton.
• New York Stock Exchange closed
for the first time in honor of Dr.
Martin Luther King.
• Track star Florence Griffith Joyner
• 1999- After 13 seasons and six
NBA championships, professional
basketball star Michael Jordan
retired from the game.
2000- At Wimbledon, tennis player
Venus Williams beats her sister to
become the first black woman to
win the woman’s title since Althea
Gibson did in 1957-58
2001- Condoleeza Rice becomes
Secretary of State.
2002
• Halle Berry becomes the
black woman to receive an
Academy Award for the
best actress and Denzel
Washington becomes the
second black man to win
the best actor category.
• President George W. Bush
awards comedian Bill
Cosby and baseball player
Hank Aaron the nations
highest civilian honor, the
Medal of Freedom.
REST IN PEACE
2003
•
•
•
•
•
Tony Dungy Herman
Edwards and Marvin
Lewis become the only
black head coaches in the
NFL.
2004- Carol Mosley Braun
becomes the first African
American senator.
2006- Rosa Parks dies
Coretta Scott King dies
Katherine Dunham
famous black
choreographer, and dancer
dies
Bibliography
•
•
•
•
www.google.com\
www.yahoo.com
www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/timeline/
www.faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/aa_history_p
ublic_/aatimeline_1600-1700.htm/
• www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/ti
meline.shtml/
• www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/bi
os/index.shtml/
• Before The Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr.
published 1962 by Johnson Publishing company
Bibliography
• A Biographical History of Blacks in America
Since 1528 by Edgar A. Toppin published 1969 by
the Christian Science Publishing Society.
• The Atlantic Slave Trade by Philip D. Curtain
published 1969 by the University of Wisconsin
Press.
• The Black Man And the Promise of America by
Lettie J. Austin
THAT’S
ALL
FOLKS