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Curriculum - African American History

1. Brown v. Board of Education
2. Dred Scott v. Sandford
3. Plessy v. Ferguson
4. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
5. Smith v. Allwright
6. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
7. A. Philip Randolph
8. Abraham Lincoln
9. African American Baptist Church Is Founded
10. African American-American Indian relations
11. African Americans Riot in Watts
12. Africans Arrive in Virginia
13. Aileen Clarke Hernandez
14. Ailey Founds His Dance Company
15. Aimé Césaire
16. Alice Walker
17. Althea Gibson
18. AME Church Is Founded
19. American Anti-Slavery Society Is Founded
20. American Civil War
21. Amistad Slave Revolt
22. The Amos ’n’ Andy Radio Show Goes on the Air
23. Armstrong First Records with His Hot Five Group
24. Arsonists Burn Thirty Black Church in Eighteen Months
25. Assassination of Malcolm X
26. Assassinations of King and Kennedy
27. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Is Published
28. Baker Dances in La Revue nègre
29. Baldwin Voices Black Rage in The Fire Next Time
30. Baraka’s Dutchman Dramatizes Racial Hatred
31. Barbara Jordan
32. Baron Constantine
33. The Bell Curve Raises Charges of Renewed Racism
34. Benjamin Banneker
35. Berry’s “Maybellene” Popularizes Rock and Roll
36. Bessie Smith
37. Bessie Smith Records “Downhearted Blues”
38. Bill Russell
39. Billie Holiday
40. Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career
41. The Birth of a Nation Popularizes New Film Techniques
42. Black Leaders Call for Equal Rights at the Niagara Falls Conference
43. Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X Is Assassinated
44. The Black Panther Party Is Organized
45. Bleeding Kansas
46. Booker T. Washington
47. Boyd Defines Human Races by Blood Groups
48. Brown v. Board of Education Ends Public School Segregation
49. Brown Wins a Grammy for “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”
50. Charlie Parker