Black History in America

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Black History in America

• An on-going story of trial and triumph as God
  brings a people to Himself

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1550s

• First Africans in America were ship workers or
  indentured servants who earned their freedom.

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1640s

• Labor shortages lead Colonial landowners to
  replace unsuccessful natives with inexpensive
  Negro slave laborers

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1641

• Massachusetts colony legalizes slavery, other
  colonies follow

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1664

• New laws enacted that prevent slaves from
  utilizing laws granting freedom when converting
  to Christianity

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1730s

• The Great Awakening of Massachusetts encourages
  new religious fervor among blacks and whites who
  join Methodist and Baptist Churches.

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1750s

• Slaves on William Byrd IIIs plantation form the
  earliest black church in Virginia

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1777

• Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish
  slavery

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1787

• Richard Allen and other blacks who were pulled
  out of their Methodist church leave to start the
  African Methodist Episcopal Church

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1791

• Benjamin Banneker, freedman of Maryland, contends
  with Thomas Jefferson that it was time to
  eradicate false racial stereotypes.

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1799

• A Second Great Awakening at Cane Ridge in
  Kentucky embraces African-Americans. Many slaves
  convert to Christianity.

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1821

• Thomas L. Jennings becomes the first black Patent
  Holder, for a dry-cleaning process.

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1830s

• Christian chapels develop on many plantations
  during the Plantation Mission Movement 1830s,
  with thousands of slaves attending.

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1833

• Slavery abolished in Canada.

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1838

• The underground railway organized by U.S.
  abolitionists transports southern slaves to
  freedom in Canada

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1838

• Frederick Douglas escapes from slavery in
  Baltimore

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1841

• A court at Washington, D.C., rules that Cinque
  and his fellow mutineers aboard the Amistad are
  not guilty and orders their release.

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1849

• Maryland slave Harriet Tubman, escapes to the
  North and becomes the conductor on the
  Underground Railway and helps over 300 slaves
  reach freedom.

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1857

• Dred Scott v. Sandford in the Supreme Court rules
  that people of African descent and their
  descendants were not legal persons and could
  never be citizens of the US

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1865

• The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
  Abolishes Slavery!

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1868

• Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
  ratified, guaranteeing due process and equal
  protection to all citizens and granting
  citizenship to any person born or naturalized in
  the United States.

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1869

• Fifteenth Amendment approved by Congress
  guaranteeing black Americans the right to vote.

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1870

• U.S. Representative, Joseph Rainey of South
  Carolina becomes first black Congressman

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1906

• Black preacher William J. Seymour leads the a
  9-year Azusa Street Revival, known for biblical
  manifestations and power that becomes a world
  famous inter-racial outpouring!

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1907

• African American Charles Mason establishes the
  Church of God in Christ in Memphis Tennessee
  (currently over 6 million members)

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1919

• Charles Hamilton Houston becomes the first black
  Editor, Harvard Law Review

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1954

• The Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of
  Education, unanimously agreeing that segregation
  in public schools is unconstitutional

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1955

• Rosa Parks refuses to relinquish her bus seat to
  whites, leading to her arrest and the Montgomery
  bus boycott that results in bus desegregation.

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1961

• Over a thousand black and white Freedom Riders,
  test new laws that prohibit segregation in
  interstate travel facilities.

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1963

• Martin Luther King delivers his famous I Have a
  Dream speech to some 200,000 participants in the
  March on Washington

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1964

• President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of
  1964 prohibiting discrimination of all kinds
  based on race, color, religion, or national
  origin and enforcing desegregation.

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1965

• Marches from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery in
  support of voting rights

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1967

• Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that
  prohibiting interracial marriage is
  unconstitutional.

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1968

• President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of
  1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale,
  rental, and financing of housing.

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1977

• Andrew Young is first black U.S. Representative
  to the UN

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1989

• General Colin Powell, is named as the first
  African American (and youngest) Chairman of the
  Joint Chiefs of Staff, later becomes the first
  African American Secretary of State

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1990

• Barack Obama becomes the first African-American
  President of the Harvard Law Review

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1990

• L. Douglas Wilder, of Virginia becomes the first
  black elected Governor

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1991

• President Bush signs the Civil Rights Act of
  1991, strengthening civil rights laws against
  employment discrimination.

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2009

• Barack Obama, of African American lineage, takes
  the oath of office as the 44th President of the
  United States of America

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• Sources includeInnercity.org, holt house
  projectreportingcivilrights.loa.orgGoogle.comIn
  foplease.com