Curriculum - African American History

  1. Frederick Douglass
  2. Free African Society Is Founded
  3. Freedmen’s Bureau Is Established
  4. George Washington Carver
  5. George Washington Williams
  6. Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Opens in New York
  7. Gordy Founds Motown Records
  8. Great Northern Migration
  9. Greensboro Sit-Ins Launch a New Stage in the Civil Rights Movement
  10. Haitian Independence
  11. Hallelujah Is the First Important Black Musical
  12. Hall’s Masonic Lodge Is Chartered
  13. Handy Ushers in the Commercial Blues Era
  14. Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun Debuts on Broadway
  15. The Harlem Renaissance Celebrates African-American Culture
  16. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  17. Harriet Tubman
  18. Hendrix Releases Are You Experienced?
  19. I Spy Debuts to Controversy
  20. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  21. Innovative Black Filmmakers Achieve Success
  22. Jackie Robinson
  23. Jackson Becomes First Major African American Candidate for President
  24. Jackson Becomes the First Major Black Candidate for U.S. President
  25. James Baldwin
  26. The Jeffersons Signals Success of Black Situation Comedies
  27. Jesse Jackson
  28. Jesse Owens
  29. Jessye Norman
  30. Joe Louis
  31. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
  32. John Coltrane
  33. Joplin Popularizes the Ragtime Style
  34. Joplin’s Treemonisha Is Staged by the Houston Opera
  35. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  36. Katherine Dunham
  37. King Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech
  38. The Ku Klux Klan Spreads Terror in the South
  39. Langston Hughes
  40. Last Slave Ship Docks at Mobile
  41. Leontyne Price
  42. The Liberator Begins Publication
  43. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  44. Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis
  45. Long, Hot Summer
  46. Lorraine Hansberry
  47. Los Angeles Riots
  48. Louis Armstrong
  49. Madam C. J. Walker
  50. Mahalia Jackson Begins Her Recording Career