1513 Jan 27	First African-American Slaves Are Brought to Puerto Rico
1619 Aug 20	Twenty Africans Arrive in Jamestown, VA as Indentured Servants.
1667 Sept 23	VA Passes Law Stating Baptism Does Not Alter State of Black Bondage
1739 Sept 09	Stono River Slave Rebellion Begins in South Carolina
1746 Aug 25	Lucy Terry Pens "Bars Fight": First Known Verse by an African American
1770 Mar 05	British Troops Kill Five Colonists in the Boston Massacre
1773 Jan 06	Massachusetts Slaves Petition the Colonial Government for Freedom
1780 Feb 10	MA African-American Paul Cuffe Protests Taxation without the Right to Vote
1783 Oct 23	Virginia Emancipates Slaves Who Fought in the Revolutionary War
1787 May 06	First Black Masonic Lodge founded Prince Hall, Boston
1788 Jan 20	African Baptist Church Founded in Savannah, GA, by a Slave, Andrew Bryan
1796 Mar 28	Bethel African Church, Philadelphia: First US-African Church
1804 Jan 05	Ohio Legislature Passes "Black Laws" to Restrict Legal Rights of Free Blacks
1804 Feb 21	Lemuel Haynes, First Black to Receive Honorary Degree from White US College
1805 May 01	Virginia Requires Freed Slaves to Leave the State
1809 May 14	The African Baptist Church Is Formed in Philadelphia
1811 Apr 11	Spelman College Is Founded
1820 Feb 06	86 U.S. Free Blacks Arrive in Africa by Boat for Resettlement in Sierra Leone
1822 Jan 07	American Colonists Arrive at Providence Island of What Will Become Liberia
1822 Feb 04	A Group of American Free Blacks Settle in Liberia, West Africa
1830 Sept 20	The National Negro Convention Convenes in Philadelphia
1831 Aug 21	Nat Turner Leads Three-Day Slave Rebellion in Southamton, VA
1831 Nov 11	Nat Turner Hanged in Jerusalem, VA for Leading Violent Slave Insurrection
1833 May 21	African-Americans First Enroll in Oberlin College, OH
1835 Oct 12	Henry Blair (MD) Is First African-American to Receive a Patent (Corn Planter)
1841 Mar 09	U.S. Supreme Court Frees the Remaining 35 Survivors of the Amistad Mutiny
1845 Apr 29	The First African-American Law Practice Opens
1847 Dec 03	Frederick Douglass Starts the Anti-slavery Newspaper The North Star
1850 Dec 08	Lucy Ann Stanton First African-American Women to Earn College Degree (Oberlin)
1851 Nov 25	Sojourner Truth Addresses the First Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron
1853 Feb 27	The First Black YMCA is Organized in Washington, D.C.
1854 Apr 29	Lincoln University Established in Pennsylvania
1858 Jan 30	Leap to Freedom Is First Published Drama Authored by an African-American
1858 May 08	First African-American Play Is Published (The Escape)
1859 Aug 18	Our Nig Is Published (First Novel Published by African-American Woman)
1861 Apr 18	Nicholas Biddle First Uniformed African-American Wounded in Civil War
1862 Apr 16	Slavery Is Abolished in Washington, D.C.
1862 May 09	Union General Hunter Forms First African-American Regiment
	Union General Hunter Orders That All FL, GA, SC Slaves Are Freed
1862 May 12	Slave Crew Steals Confederate Warship Planter and Surrender It to the Union
1862 Aug 25	War Department Begins Recruiting Black Soldiers in S. Carolina Sea Islands
1862 Sept 27	First Federal Black Regiment Mustered in at New Orleans
1863 Jan 26	54th Massachusetts Volunteers Organized as First Black Regiment in the North
1863 Jan 31	South Carolina Volunteers Are First Black Regiment in the U.S. Army
1863 Mar 10	The All Black 54th Infantry of Massachusetts Is Created
1863 Apr 30	First Female African-American Principal in NYC Schools
1863 May 22	U.S. War Dept Establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1863 May 28	54th MA : Union's First Black Regiment Departs Boston for South Carolina
1864 Mar 01	Rebecca Lee Is the First African-American Women to Earn Medical Degree
1864 Sept 29	African-American Soldiers Lead as Union Captures New Market Heights
1865 Feb 12	Henry Garnett First African American to Preach in House of Representatives
1865 Nov 20	Howard University Is Founded
1865 Nov 21	Shaw University Is Founded
1865 Nov 24	Mississippi First State to Establish "Black Codes" to Limit Rights of Freed Blacks
1865 Dec 06	13th Amendment Ratified Abolishing Slavery
1866 Jan 09	Fisk University Convenes First Classes
1866 Apr 09	Civil Rights Bill Grants African Americans Full U.S. Citizenship
1866 Nov 20	Morgan State College Founded as Centenary Bible Institute by White Methodists
1867 Feb 06	Peabody Fund Established to Further Education of Southern Blacks
1867 Feb 14	Morehouse College Founded as Augusta Institute
1867 Mar 02	Hundreds of Black Men Meet at Alexandria, VA Lyceum Demanding Voting Rights
1867 Apr 01	Blacks Vote in Tuscumbia, Alabama Municipal Election
1867 Apr 24	Blacks Stage Ride-ins on Richmond, VA Streetcars
1867 May 01	Howard University Enrolls Its First Four Students
1868 May 20	Republican Convention Admits First Two Black Delegates
1868 Nov 03	Louisiana's John Willis Menard Is Black Elected to the U.S. Congress
1869 Jan 06	Classes Begin at Howard University Law School
1869 Jan 13	First Convention of the Colored National Labor Union Is Held
1869 Feb 20	Tennessee Declares Martial Law in Ku Klux Klan Crisis
1869 Apr 16	Ebenezer Bassett First African-American Diplomat (Haiti)
1870 Jan 20	Hiram Revels Elected to Fill U. S. Senate Seat Vacated by Jefferson Davis
1870 Feb 25	Hiram Revels (MS) Sworn in as First Black Congressman
1870 Dec 12	Joseph H. Rainey, First Black Member of U. S. House of Representatives
1871 Jan 16	Jefferson Franklin Long Is First African-American Congressman from Georgia
1872 Feb 26	Cookman Institute Is Founded in Jacksonville Florida
1872 Mar 26	Thomas J Martin Patents the Fire Extinguisher
1872 Oct 21	John Conyers is First African American Admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy
1872 Dec 09	P.B.S. Pinchback Becomes Governor of Louisiana
1873 Jan 13	P. B. S. Pinchback Relinquishes Governorship of Louisiana
1873 May 19	Missouri's Colored School #8 Is Opened
1874 Jan 20	U.S. Patent for A "Steam Lubricator" Issued to E.J. Mccoy
1874 Feb 03	Blanche Bruce First MS African American Elected to Full U.S. Senate Term
1874 Dec 01	T.J. Byrd Receives Patent# 157,370 for Railroad Car Couplings
1875 Dec 16	Alabama A&M and Knoxville Colleges Are Established
1878 Jan 14	U.S. Supreme Court Rules Racial Segregation on Trains is Unconstitutional
1879 Nov 04	Thomas Elkins Patents Refrigeration Apparatus for Chilling or Cooling Food
1882 Oct 15	U.S. Supreme Court Declares the Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional
1884 Apr 24	The First African-American Medical Society Is Formed
1884 Dec 02	Granville T. Woods Receives His First Patent for a Telephone Transmitter
1886 Aug 25	600 Delegates Form the American National Baptist Convention in St. Louis
1887 Aug 18	Eatonville, Florida, an All-black Community, is Founded
1891 Oct 27	African-American Philip B Downing Awarded Patent for Public Mailbox
1892 Feb 13	World's Fair Colored Opera Company First African-Americans at Carnegie Hall
1892 Feb 23	Peter D. Smith of Springfield, Ohio, Is Issued a U.S. Patent for a "Grain Binder"
	Henry Bowman of Worcester, MA Issued Patent for "Method for Making Flags"
1892 Oct 24	25,000 Black Workers Strike in New Orleans
1895 Mar 18	200 African-Americans Sail from Savannah, GA for Liberia
1895 Sept 18	Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" Speech
1895 Nov 26	National Negro Medical Association Is Founded
1896 Apr 15	Booker T. Washington Receives Honorary Degree from Harvard
1897 Feb 16	P. Walker Receives Patent 577,153 for a Cotton Machine for Cleaning Seed
1898 Nov 10	2,000 White Supremists Burn Black Businesses & Kill 9 in Willmington, NC
1900 Feb 12	Negro Anthem, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", First Performed for Lincoln Day
1900 May 23	First African-American Receives Congressional Medal of Honor
1901 Oct 16	Booker T. Washington Visits the White House
1902 Oct 21	The Dinwiddie Quartet Are the First Recorded African-American Voices
1903 Jan 13	Granville T. Woods Is Issued a U.S. Patent for an Electric Railway System
1904 Oct 03	Bethune-Cookman College Opens in Daytona Beach, FL
1908 Jan 15	AKA, First Black Greek Letter Sorority, is Founded
1908 Aug 25	Martha Franklin Founds National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
1909 Feb 12	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is Founded
1909 Dec 04	Alpha Phi Alpha, First Black Greek Fraternity, Is Organized
1913 Nov 13	Daniel Williams, First Black Member of American College of Surgeons
1916 Oct 12	Washington & Lee Refuses to Allow Rutgers' Paul Robeson to Play FB Game
1917 May 16	Singer, Harry Burleigh, Awarded NAACP Spingarn Medal
1918 May 15	Two African-Americans Awarded France's Croix de Guerre
1919 Feb 19	W.E.B. Dubois Organizes First Pan-African Congress
1919 Mar 02	Claude Barnett Founds the Associated Negro Press (AFP) in Chicago
1920 Feb 13	Negro Baseball League Is Organized
1920 May 02	First Negro Baseball League Game Is Played in Indianapolis
1920 May 23	First Two African-American Episcopal Bishops Selected
1921 May 23	Shuffle Along Opens on New York
1923 Feb 13	The Renaissance, the First Black Pro Basketball Team, Organized
1923 May 07	Chip Woman's Fortune First African-American Drama Performed on Broadway
1923 Nov 20	Garrett T. Morgan Patents the Traffic Signal
1924 Feb 05	Jazz Great Louis Armstrong Marries Pianist Lil Hardin
1925 Jan 06	George Washington Carver Granted Patent #1,522,176 for Cosmetics
1925 May 08	Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Is First Black Union
1925 Aug 25	A. Philip Randolph Founds Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1925 Sept 08	African-American Ossian Sweet Moves Family into All-White Detroit Housing
1926 Feb 07	The First National Negro Week Is Initiated by Carter Woodson
1927 Jan 20	135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library Opens Negro Division
1927 Jan 27	The Harlem Globetrotters Play Their First Basketball Game
1927 Dec 02	Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey Is Deported to Jamaica
1929 Feb 27	Hearts in Dixie, First African-American Film, Premieres
1929 Aug 19	"Amos 'n' Andy" Comedy Radio Show Debuts on NBC
1931 Feb 06	Harlem Experimental Theater Group Performs Its First Play at St. Philip's Church
1931 Dec 08	U.S. Patent Issued to J.T. White for an Improved Lemon Squeezer
1933 Sept 16	Paul Robeson First African American to Star in Major Film: The Emperor Jones
1935 Oct 24	Langston Hughes' Mulatto Opens on Broadway
1935 Dec 05	Mary McLeod Bethune Establishes National Council of Negro Women
1936 Dec 08	NAACP Sues for Equal Pay for Black Teachers: Gibbs v. Board of Education
1937 Mar 26	William Hastie First Black U.S. Federal Judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 May 02	Ella Fitzgerald Records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
1939 Mar 28	All-Black Renaissance Big 5 First Pro Basketball Champions
1939 May 14	Duke Ellington and His band Record "Caravan"
1939 Oct 11	NAACP Organizes the Legal Defense and Education Fund
1939 Nov 20	Hattie McDaniel Is First African American to Receive an Academy Award.
1940 Mar 01	Richard Wright's Native Son Is Published
1940 Apr 07	Booker T. Washington Stamp Is First Featuring an African American
1940 Sept 29	SS Booker T. Washington Is Launched
1940 Oct 25	Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. Becomes First African American General in U.S. Army
1941 Jan 23	Richard Wright Is Awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal
1941 Nov 12	Lillian Evanti Establishes the National Negro Opera Company
1941 Nov 15	Grambling Defeats Tillotson 37-6 for Eddie Robinson's First Win of 408
1942 Feb 19	NAACP Pressure Forces U.S. Army Air Force to Approve Tuskegee Airmen
1942 Feb 28	Detroit Blacks & Whites Clash over Access to New Government Housing
1942 Oct 09	Jubilee First Radio Broadcast to Showcase African-American Talent
1943 Jan 23	Duke Ellington Plays Carnegie Hall for the First Time
1943 May 07	Liberty Ship George Washington Carver Is Launched
1943 Oct 18	Paul Robeson Selected for the Spingarn Medal: NAACP's Highest Award
1944 Dec 13	First Black Woman Admitted to WAVE Officer Training
1945 Oct 31	Booker T Washington Inducted into HOF for Great Americans
1945 Nov 01	First Issue of Ebony Is Published
1946 May 01	First African-American Named U.S. Mother of the Year
1946 May 07	First Black Governor of the Virgin Islands Is Inaugurated
1946 Dec 16	Booker T. Washington First African American on a U.S. Coin (50-cent piece)
1947 Apr 11	Jackie Robinson Plays in a Dodgers-Yankess Exhibition Game
1947 Aug 26	Dan Bankhead Is First African-American Pitcher in Major-league Baseball
1947 Dec 08	Brooklyn Dodgers Trade Dixie Walker, Outspoken Critic of Jackie Robinson
1948 Jan 26	President Truman Signs Executive Order to End Segregation in the Armed Forces
1948 Feb 12	Lt. Nancy Leftenant First African-American in Army Nursing Corps
1948 Mar 11	Reginald Weir First African-American to Play in the US Tennis Open
1948 Oct 21	WDLA Memphis Airs "The Town Jamboree," First All-black Radio Programming
1949 Apr 01	Happy Pappy Airs As First African-American TV Variety Show
1949 Oct 03	America's First Black Radio Station (WERD) Goes on the Air
1950 Apr 25	Celtics Make Chuck Cooper First African American Drafted into the NBA
1950 Aug 19	Edith Sampson First African American Representative to the United Nations.
1950 Sept 22	Ralph Bunche First Black Man Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Oct 31	Earl Lloyd Is First African American to Play in an NBA Game
1950 Dec 04	University of Tennessee Rejects Five Negro Applicants
1950 Dec 10	Dr. Ralph Bunche Is First Black to Receive Nobel Peace Prize
1951 Apr 24	First Black Student Admitted to the University of North Carolina
1951 Aug 22	Althea Gibson: First Black in National Tennis Competition
1951 Nov 13	Janet Collins Is First Black Ballerina to Appear with the Metropolitan Opera
1952 Jan 27	Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Wins the National Book Award
1953 Jan 13	Don Barksdale Is First Black Person to play in An NBA All-Star Game
1953 Feb 09	Ralph Ellison Receives the National Book Award for The Invisible Man
1953 May 02	Divinity Student Is First African American Admitted to Vanderbilt University
1953 Sept 17	Ernie Banks Is First African-American Player to Wear Chicago Cub Uniform
1953 Nov 04	Hulan Jack Elected As Manhattan's First Black Borough President
1953 Nov 19	Roy Campanella Named National League MVP
1954 Jan 19	Patent No. 2,666,298 Issued to African-American Inventor F.M. Jones for a Defroster
1954 Jan 20	The National Negro Radio Network Begins Broadcasting on Forty Stations
1954 Aug 18	James Wilkins First African-American to Attend Presidential Cabinet Meeting
1954 Oct 07	Marian Anderson Is First Black Singer Hired by NYC Metropolitan Opera
1954 Oct 27	Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Is First African American Promoted to Brigadier General
1955 Jan 07	Marian Anderson First Performs with Metropolitan Opera
1955 Jan 27	Robert McFerrin Debuts As Metropolitan Opera's First Black Male Performer
1955 Apr 17	Fats Domino's Releases "Ain't That a Shame"
1955 May 12	Cubs' Sam Jones Is First African American to Throw a Major League No-hitter
1955 May 21	Chuck Berry Records "Maybellene"
1955 Aug 19	Ralph Bunche Is Named Undersecretary of the United Nations
1955 Nov 18	Roy Wilkins Becomes Executive Secretary of the NAACP
1955 Dec 01	Rosa Parks Is Arrested for Refusing to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Passenger
1955 Dec 05	Following the Arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
1956 Feb 03	Autherine Lucy First African-American Graduate Student at U. of Alabama
1956 Feb 05	L. R. Lautier Is First African-American Member of the National Press Club
1956 Nov 13	Browder v. Gayle, Supreme Court Declares Bus Segregation Laws Unconstitutional
1956 Dec 20	Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott Ends
1957 Jan 05	Jackie Robinson Retires from Baseball
1957 Jan 16	Little Richard Records "Lucille"
1957 Feb 14	Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Organizes in New Orleans
1957 Sept 08	Althea Gibson 1st African-American Woman to Win U.S. Singles Championship
1957 Sept 17	Louis Armstrong Cancels Goodwill Trip to Russia Due to U.S. Racial Unrest
1957 Sept 23	White Mob Forces 9 Black Students to Leave Little Rock Central H.S., AR
1957 Sept 25	Federal Troops Escort 9 Black Students into Little Rock Central H.S, AR
1958 Jan 28	Roy Campanella Is Paralyzed in Auto Accident
1958 Feb 05	Clifton Wharton First African-American Ambassador in Europe (Romania)
1958 May 08	Ernest Green Is First African-American Graduate of Little Rock Central HS
1958 Sept 20	Martin Luther King, Jr. Stabbed in Chest in New York City
1958 Oct 12	Washington, D.C. Bar Association Votes to Accept African-American Members
1959 Mar 11	Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun Premieres in New York
1959 May 20	Benjamin Davis First African American Two-Star General
1959 Nov 04	Ernie Banks Wins His Second Straight National League MVP Award
1960 Feb 23	F. M. Jones Is Issued Patent for a "Thermostat and Temperature Control System"
1960 May 06	President Eisenhower Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
1960 Sept 06	Rafer Johnson Sets an Olympic Decathlon Record of 8,392 Points
1960 Oct 25	Martin Luther King, Jr. Sentenced to 4-months Jail for Sit-in
1960 Oct 29	Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) Wins First Professional Fight
1960 Nov 15	Elgin Baylor Scores 71 Points for the L.A. Lakers v. the N.Y. Knicks
1960 Nov 24	Wilt Chamberlain Grabs 55 Rebounds in One NBA Game
1961 Jan 06	Charlayne Hunter (Gault) First African-American Admitted to U. of Georgia
1961 Jan 15	The Supremes Sign with Motown Records
1961 Jan 27	Leontyne Price Debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in Il Trovatore
1961 Feb 06	SC Civil Rights Activists Flood Jails by Forcing Arrests and Refusing to Post Bail
1961 May 20	Whites Attack "Freedom Riders" Bus in Montgomery, AL
1961 Dec 08	Wilt Chamberlain Scores 78 points for the Philadelphia Warriors Against the Lakers
1961 Dec 15	2,000 Protest Discrimination at the Baton Rouge, LA Courthouse
1962 Jan 23	Jackie Robinson & Bob Feller Are Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1962 Jan 31	Samuel Gravely Is First African-American to Command U.S. Warship
1962 Mar 02	Wilt Chamberlain Scores 100 Points Against the NY Knicks in Hershey, PA
1962 Sept 20	James Meredith Blocked from Enrolling in the University of Mississippi
1962 Sept 23	Maury Wills Breaks Ty Cobb's Record with 97th Stolen Base
1962 Sept 24	University of Mississippi Agrees to Admit James Meredith
1962 Sept 30	James Meredith Successfully Enrolls in University of Mississippi on 4th Try
1962 Nov 15	20-year-old Cassius Clay TKOs 48-year-old Archie Moore
1962 Nov 20	Racial & Religious Discrimination Eliminated in Federal Housing
1963 Jan 28	South Carolina Is Last State to Integrate Its Universities
1963 Aug 18	James Meredith Is First African American Graduate of the U of Mississippi
1963 Aug 19	NAACP Youth Council Begins Oklahoma City Lunch Counter Sit-ins
1963 Aug 28	200,000+ Civil Rights Demonstrators March on Washington, D.C.
	Martin Luther King Delivers "I Have A Dream" Speech
1963 Sept 02	Governor Wallace Orders State Troopers to Prevent Tuskegee HS Integration
1963 Sept 15	Birmingham, AL Black 16th St. Baptist Church Bombed: 4 Young Girls Die
1963 Nov 07	Elston Howard First African American MVP of the American League
1964 Feb 03	Half Million New York City Students Stay Home to Protest De Facto Segregation
1964 Feb 04	Austin T. Walden Becomes First Black Judge in Georgia since Reconstruction
1964 Feb 25	Muhammad Ali Defeats Liston for the World Heavyweight Championship
1964 Feb 07	Cassius Clay Becomes a Muslim with the Name Muhammad Ali
1964 Mar 06	Elijah Muhammad Renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
1964 Apr 23	James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie Opens on Broadway
1964 Oct 12	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Youngest Person Selected for Nobel Peace Prize
1964 Dec 10	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
1965 Feb 04	Malcolm X Makes His First Speech in Favor of Civil Rights in Selma, AL.
1965 Feb 21	Malcolm X Assassinated by 3 Black Muslims in New York City
1965 Mar 25	25,000 Freedom Marchers Reach the Alabama State Capitol
1965 Apr 08	Lawrence Braford First Black Page to Serve the U.S. Senate
1965 Apr 18	Marian Anderson Ends Singing Career at Carnegie Hall
1965 May 29	Vivian Malone Is First African-American Graduate of University of Alabama
1965 Aug 30	Senate Confirms Thurgood Marshall As First Black Supreme Court Justice
1965 Oct 10	The Supremes First Appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1965 Dec 17	The Supremes Performance Opens Houston Astrodome
1966 Jan 06	Harold R Perry Becomes Second African-American Roman Catholic Bishop
1966 Jan 13	Robert C. Weaver Is First African-American to Hold a Cabinet Position (HUD)
1966 Feb 10	Andrew Brimmer First African American Appointed to the Federal Reserve Board
1966 Feb 20	Emmett Ashford Is Major League Baseball's First Black Umpire
1966 Mar 11	Three Men Convicted for the Murder of Malcolm X
1966 Apr 11	Emmett Ashford Is Major League Baseball's First Black Umpire
1966 Apr 18	Bill Russell Is First African American Coach in the NBA
1966 May 22	Bill Cosby First African-American to Win Best Actor Emmy
1966 Sept 16	Leontyne Price Is First African American to Open a Metropolitan Opera Season
1966 Oct 15	Bill Russell First Professional African-American Coach
1966 Oct 22	"The Supremes" Are First All-female Group with #1 Album
1966 Nov 08	Lawrence Joel First Living African-American Medal of Honor
	Edward W. Brooke First African American Elected to Senate by Popular Vote
1967 Feb 14	Aretha Franklin Records "Respect"
1967 Mar 25	Martin Luther King Leads Anti-war March in Chicago
1967 Apr 28	Muhammad Ali Refuses to Be Inducted into the Army
1967 Apr 29	Aretha Franklin Releases "Respect"
1967 May 08	Muhammad Ali Indicted for Refusing Induction in U.S. Army
1967 Oct 02	Thurgood Marshall Sworn in As First Black Justice U.S. Supreme Court
	First Black Astronaut Dies in Crash Before First Mission
1967 Nov 07	Carl Stokes Elected as First Black Mayor of Cleveland, OH
1967 Nov 10	Charlie Sifford Is First African-American to Win a PGA Tournament (Hartford Open)
1968 Feb 12	Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice Is First Published
1968 Mar 19	Howard University Students Seize Administration Building
1968 Apr 09	Ralph Abernathy Elected to Head SCLC
1968 Apr 11	Lyndon Johnson Signs 1968 Civil Rights Bill into Law
1968 Aug 26	Arthur Ashe Defeats Tom Okker for the U.S. Open Tennis Championship
1968 Sept 06	Arthur Ashe Is First African-American to Win U.S. Open in Tennis
1968 Oct 15	Wyomia Tyus Wins Second Consecutive Olynmpic Gold for 100M Dash
1968 Oct 16	Tommie Smith & John Carlos Stage Black Power Protest at Olympic Games
1968 Oct 18	Bob Beamon Long Jumps 29' 2.5" at Mexico City Olympics
1968 Nov 05	Shirley Chisholm First African American Woman Elected to the U.S. House
1969 Apr 29	Duke Ellington Is Presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom
1969 Oct 29	Supreme Court Orders Immediate Desegregation of U.S. Schools
1969 Dec 08	Police Raid Black Panther Headquarters in Los Angeles
1970 Jan 14	Diana Ross Performs for Last Time with The Supremes
1970 Jan 20	Benjamin Mays Chosen As President of the Atlanta, GA Board of Education
1970 Jan 28	Arthur Ashe Is Denied Entry into South Africa
1970 Feb 13	Joseph L Searles First African-American Member of New York Stock Exchange
1970 Feb 16	Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis for World Heavyweight Boxing Championship
1970 Feb 21	Jackson 5 Makes Television Debut on American Bandstand
1970 Mar 08	Diana Ross Performs Solo for the First Time
1970 Apr 22	Yale Students Protest in Support of the Black Panthers
1970 May 12	Ernie Banks Hits Career Homerun 500
1971 Jan 05	Harlem Globetrotters Lose for the First Time in 2,496 Games
1971 Feb 09	New Negro Leagues Committee Nominates Satchel Paige for Baseball's HOF
1971 Mar 08	Frazier Defeats Muhammad Ali to Remain Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1972 Jan 14	Sanford and Son Debuts on NBC
1972 Jan 31	Aretha Franklin Sings at Mahalia Jackson's Funeral
1972 Feb 05	Bob Douglas First African-American Elected to Basketball HOF
1972 Mar 10	First National Black Political Convention Is Held in Gary, Indiana
1972 Apr 24	First African-American Selected National Teacher of the Year
1972 Apr 25	Gen. Davidson First Black U.S. Army Division Commander
1973 Apr 16	Lelia Smith Foley Is First Female African American Mayor
1973 May 29	Tom Bradley Elected First Black Mayor of Los Angeles
1973 Sept 17	Illinois is First State to Legislate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1973 Oct 16	Maynard Jackson Becomes First Black Mayor of Atlanta
1973 Nov 06	Coleman Young Is Elected As the First African-American Mayor of Detroit
	Thomas Bradley Elected As the First African-American Mayor of Los Angeles
1974 Feb 13	James "Cool Papa" Bell Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1974 Oct 03	Frank Robinson Selected as First Black Manager in Major League Baseball
1975 Apr 10	Lee Elder Is First Black Golfer to Compete in the Masters
1976 Jan 20	Patricia Roberts Harris First African-American Female Cabinet Appointee
1976 Feb 09	Special Negro Leagues Committee Selects Oscar Charleston for Baseball HOF
1976 Oct 15	Ike and Tina Turner Split
1976 Dec 16	President Jimmy Carter Appoints Andrew Young U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
1977 Jan 23	ABC Begins Broadcasting Roots Mini-series
1977 Jan 24	Howard T. Ward Is First African-American Judge on Georgia's Superior Court
1977 Feb 11	Clifford Alexander, Jr. Is First Black Secretary of the U.S. Army
1977 Aug 19	Rev. Joseph Lowery President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1977 Aug 29	Lou Brock Breaks Ty Cobb's Record for Career Stolen Bases (893)
1979 Jan 14	President Carter Proposes Martin Luther King's Birthday as a National Holiday
1979 Jan 23	Willie Mays Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1979 May 13	Max Robinson First African-American Network News Anchor (ABC)
1979 Sept 23	Lou Brock Is Undisputed Stolen Base King with 892nd Career Steal
1979 Oct 30	Richard Arrington Elected First Black Mayor of Birmingham, AL
1980 May 13	Ruth B. Love Chicago's First African-American School Superintendent
1980 May 29	Vernon Jordan Shot and Wounded in Ft. Wayne, Indiana
1980 Nov 17	Howard University's WHMM-TV Is First Black-owned Public Broadcasting TV Station
1981 Dec 11	Muhammad Ali Loses Final Fight to Trevor Berbick
1982 Nov 26	Miles Davis Marries Cicely Tyson
1983 Apr 11	Harold Washington Is First African-American Mayor of Chicago
1983 Apr 29	Harold Washington Sworn In As First Black Mayor of Chicago
1983 May 16	Michael Jackson Takes His First "Moonwalk"
1983 Aug 30	Guy Bluford Becomes First African-American in Space
1983 Sept 17	Vanessa Williams Is First African American Crowned as Miss America
1983 Nov 08	Wilson B. Goode Elected First Black Mayor of Philadelphia
1983 Nov 21	Michael Jackson's Thriller Video Premieres
1984 Jan 06	Robert N.C. Nix Inaugurated as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
1984 Apr 02	John Thompson 1st Black to Coach NCAA Basketball Champion Team
1984 Sept 12	Michael Jordan Signs 7-year Contract with Chicago Bulls
1984 Sept 20	The Cosby Show Premires
1984 Nov 19	20-year-old Dwight Gooden Youngest NL Rookie of the Year
1985 Jan 23	O.J. Simpson Elected to Pro Football's Hall of Fame
1985 Aug 25	Dwight Gooden Is Youngest 20-game Winner in MLB History: 20 y 9 m 9 d
1985 Oct 15	Morris Brown College is Founded
1986 Jan 20	Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Is Celebrated as a Federal Holiday for the First Time
1986 Feb 04	U.S. Postal Service Issues a Stamp Honoring Sojourner Truth
1986 Apr 29	U.S. Postal Service Honors Duke Ellington with a Postal Stamp
1986 May 28	Matthew Henson, First Man at North Pole, on Postage Stamp
1986 Oct 15	Edward J. Perkins First African-American Ambassador to South Africa.
1986 Nov 22	George Branham, First African American to Win Pro Bowler Association Event
1987 Feb 25	In UNITED STATES v. PARADISE Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action
1987 Mar 26	August Wilson's Fences Premieres in New York NY
1987 Apr 16	NY News Guilty of Discrimination Against Black Reporters
1987 Nov 25	Chicago Mayer, Harold Washington, Dies of Heart Attack in his City Hall Office
1987 Dec 08	Kurt Lidell Schmoke Inaugurated as First African-American Mayor of Baltimore, MD
1988 Feb 03	AL NAACP President Arrested Removing Confederate Flag from State Capitol
1988 Feb 06	Rap Group Public Enemy Makes Its Chart Debut with "Bring the Noise."
1988 Feb 10	Louis Sullivan Is Named Secretary of Health and Human Services
1988 Feb 27	Debi Thomas First African American to Win a Winter Olympic Medal
1988 Nov 04	Bill and Camille Cosby Donate $20 million to Spelman College
1989 Feb 03	NL President Bill White First African-American to Head a Pro Sports League
1989 Feb 10	Democrat's Ron Brown First Black to Head a Major U.S. Political Party
1989 Oct 03	Art Shell Selected as First Black Head Coach in the NFL
1989 Nov 07	David Dinkins First Black Mayor of New York City
	Douglas Wilder of Virginia Becomes the First Elected African-American Governor
1990 Jan 13	Douglas Wilder Is First Elected & Inaugurated African-American Governor
1990 Feb 05	Barack Obama First African-American to Head the "Harvard Law Review"
1990 Apr 23	Harvard Faculty Protests Absence of Black Female Faculty
1991 Mar 03	LA Police Beating of Black Motorist Rodney King Exposed on Video Tape
1991 Oct 06	The Scott Joplin House Opens As a Missouri State Historic Site
1991 Oct 11	Confirmation Hearings Begin for Justice Clarence Thomas
1991 Oct 15	Senate Confirms Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48
1991 Oct 30	BET First Black-owned Company Listed on the NYSE
1992 Mar 06	The Last Episode of The Cosby Show Is Aired
1992 Apr 29	Four Policeman Acquitted of Beating Rodney King, Rioting Breaks Out in LA
1992 Sept 12	Dr. Mae Carol Jemison Is First African-American Woman in Space
1992 Nov 03	IL Democrat Carol Moseley Braun First Black Woman Elected to U.S. Senate
1993 Mar 09	Rodney King Testifies at His Los Angeles Police Brutality Trial
1993 May 23	Library of Congress Releases the Papers of Thurgood Marshall
1993 Oct 07	Toni Morrison Is First African-American Selected for the Nobel Prize in Literature
1994 Feb 05	Racist Byron de la Beckwith Sentenced to Life for 1963 Murder of Medgar Evers
1995 Feb 09	Two Astronauts Are First African-American and First Briton to Walk in Space
1995 Mar 09	Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman Testifies at O.J. Simpson Murder Trial
1995 May 06	Ron Kirk Becomes First African-American Mayor of Dallas, TX
1995 Sept 02	Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" First Record to Debut #1
1995 Oct 16	Nation of Islam Million Man March Held in Washington, D.C.
1995 Dec 09	Kweisi Mfume Chosen to Head the NAACP
1995 Dec 12	Willie Brown Is the First Black Mayor of San Francisco
1996 Apr 03	Commerce Secretary Ron Brown Dies in Croatia Plane Crash
1996 Aug 18	San Jose Mercury Links CIA to Nicaraguan Contra Drugs Brought to Black LA
1996 Aug 25	Tiger Woods Wins 3rd Consecutive U.S. Amateur Golf Championship
1996 Nov 14	Michael Jackson Gets Married
1997 Apr 25	Library of Congress Receives Ella Fitzgerald's Papers
1998 Dec 06	Bill Cosby Receives Kennedy Center Honors
1999 Jan 13	Michael Jordan Announced His Retirement from Professional Basketball
2000 Nov 03	Black Entertainment Television (BET) Sold to Viacom for $3 Billion
2001 May 02	Klansman Convicted of 1963 Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL
2001 Sept 08	Williams Sisters Compete in First All-Black Women's U.S. Open Tennis Final
2002 Feb 19	Vonetta Flowers Is First African-American Winter Olympic Gold Medalist
2002 Apr 14	Tiger Woods Is Only the Third Player to Win Back-to-back Masters Titles

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This guide last revised 09/02/2004
This guide created 07/13/2004