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Pioneer African Baptist church organized
Pioneer African Baptist church organized in Savannah, Ga., with Andrew Bryan as pastor.
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Jan
20
1788
Slavery
Twenty Africans, three of them women, arrive in Jamestown, VA on a Dutch ship and are sold as indentured servants; indentured servitude acts asa forerunner to slavery in English colonies.
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Jan
0
1619
1641 Massachusett colony.
In 1641, the first colony to legalize slavery, and to forbid use of unjust violence in the capture of slaves, was Massachusetts.
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Jan
0
1641
Progressive party convention
Progressive party convention, meeting in Philadelphia, nominated Henry Wallace for President. New Party made major effort to attract Blacks. Approximately 150 Black delegates and alternates attended the convention. The keynote speaker was Charles P. Howard, and attorney, publisher and former
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Jul
23
1948
Did You Know That In...
1778 - The Baptist church decides that marriages between slaves should be respected.
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Jan
0
1778
Congress Fight For Blacks Freedom
Congress authorized president to accept Blacks for military service. Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, which freed the slaves of all rebels.
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Jul
17
1862
Freedom To Male Slaves
Lord Dunmore, deposed royal governor of Virginia, issued proclamation which promised freedom to male slaves who joined the British army.
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Nov
7
1775
93rd Infantry
93rd Infantry activated and assigned to combat in the South Pacific; the first African American division formed during World War II
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May
15
1942
Slavery Abolishment
Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery. By 1783 slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law in 1780. Connecticut and Rhode Island barred slavery in 1784 and were followed by New York (gradual emancipation) and New
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Jul
2
1777
Fort Negro
Garcia And Fort Negro: After the War of 1812, over three hundred African Americans occupied an abandoned British fort on the banks of the Apalachicola River in what is now Florida. Known as Fort Negro, it was headed by an African American man named Garcia. The heavily armed fort became a symbol of
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Jul
27
1816
Pennsylvania becomes the first state to abolish
Pennsylvania becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
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Mar
1
1780
Blacks left Savannah, Ga
Two hundred Blacks left Savannah, Ga., for Liberia.
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Mar
18
1895
Slaves Petition for Freedom
Massachusetts slaves petitioned the state legislature for freedom. A bill was drawn and passed by the Mass. legislature. But the governor witheld approval and the measure never became law.
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Jun
25
1773
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker writes letter to then secretary of state Thomas Jefferson. The letter showed the hypocrisy of slavery. Banneker challenged the idea of freedom for whites as the ascribed it to be the same freedom that should be granted to Africans.
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Aug
19
1791
Confederate congress passed resolution which
Confederate congress passed resolution which branded Black troops and their officers criminals. Resolution, in effect, doomed captured Black soldiers to death or slavery.
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May
1
1863
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland,
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland, summer. She returned to the South nineteen times and brought out more than three hundred slaves.
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Dec
6
1849
Sir Alexander Bustamante
1967: Sir Alexander Bustamante, Jamaicas first prime minister dies.
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Aug
6
1967
Motown records fact
David Ruffin started out singing with the
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Jan
11
1964
Birthday - Dwight Gooden
Born on this day in Tampa, Florida, Dwight Gooden went on to become the youngest player selected as the National League Rookie of the Year in 1984, the youngest to be chosen for the All-Star Game, and the youngest to win the Cy Young Award.
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Nov
16
1964
Wash., D.C. Slave Emancipation and Reparations
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came
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Apr
16
1862
Compensation For States
President Lincoln, in message to Congress, recommended the use of federal bonds to provide compensation for states that abolished slavery before 1900.
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Dec
1
1862
Virginia retires state song
Virginia House of Delegates votes unanimously to retire the state song, Carry me back to old virginia , a tune which glorifies slavery.
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Feb
17
1997
Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, dies.
Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, dies. Born into slavery, she ran away form her owners after mistreatment by her masters wife. She petitioned successfully for her freedom, citing her knowledge of the Bill of Rights and the new constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in her argument that all men
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Dec
28
1829
Elijah Muhammad, born
Elijah Muhummad was born Elijah Poole in
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Oct
10
1897
Anti-segregation March
Through 25th Some 180 Black students and a white minister arrested in Columbia, S.C., after anti-segregation march.
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Mar
2
1961
Frances Watkins Harper, writer born
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Sep
24
1825
Civil Rights
New York Slave Revolt. April 7, 1712 Nine whites were killed in a slave revolt in New York City. Planned by 27 slaves, the rebellion was begun by setting fire to an outhouse; as whites came to put the fire out, there were shot. The state militia was called out to capture the rebels and the city of
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Apr
7
1712
Marcus Garvey
On July 14, 1914 Marcus Garvey arrived in Jamaica after a long tour which had taken him through Central America and Europe. Five days later on July 19 he launched the largest independent organisation the world has ever seen - the Universal Negro Improvement Association , UNIA, intended to be the
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Jul
14
1914
Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist,
Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist, author, born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Oct
17
1817
Ghana became an independent state
March 6th, 1957, the Gold Coast gained its independence from Great
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Mar
6
1957
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