Curriculum - African American History
- Frederick Douglass
- Free African Society Is Founded
- Freedmen’s Bureau Is Established
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Williams
- Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Opens in New York
- Gordy Founds Motown Records
- Great Northern Migration
- Greensboro Sit-Ins Launch a New Stage in the Civil Rights Movement
- Haitian Independence
- Hallelujah Is the First Important Black Musical
- Hall’s Masonic Lodge Is Chartered
- Handy Ushers in the Commercial Blues Era
- Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun Debuts on Broadway
- The Harlem Renaissance Celebrates African-American Culture
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Hendrix Releases Are You Experienced?
- I Spy Debuts to Controversy
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Innovative Black Filmmakers Achieve Success
- Jackie Robinson
- Jackson Becomes First Major African American Candidate for President
- Jackson Becomes the First Major Black Candidate for U.S. President
- James Baldwin
- The Jeffersons Signals Success of Black Situation Comedies
- Jesse Jackson
- Jesse Owens
- Jessye Norman
- Joe Louis
- John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
- John Coltrane
- Joplin Popularizes the Ragtime Style
- Joplin’s Treemonisha Is Staged by the Houston Opera
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Katherine Dunham
- King Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech
- The Ku Klux Klan Spreads Terror in the South
- Langston Hughes
- Last Slave Ship Docks at Mobile
- Leontyne Price
- The Liberator Begins Publication
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis
- Long, Hot Summer
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Los Angeles Riots
- Louis Armstrong
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Mahalia Jackson Begins Her Recording Career
