Subcategories - African Americans, Blacks
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Smith v. Allwright
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
- A. Philip Randolph
- Abu Klea
- African American Baptist Church Is Founded
- African American-American Indian relations
- African Americans Riot in Watts
- Africans Arrive in Virginia
- Ahmed Sékou Touré
- Aileen Clarke Hernandez
- Ailey Founds His Dance Company
- Aimé Césaire
- Albert Lutuli
- Althea Gibson
- AME Church Is Founded
- Amistad Slave Revolt
- Ancient Ghana Emerges
- Angolan Civil War, 1975-2000
- Angolan War of Independence
- Anwar el-Sadat
- Armstrong First Records with His Hot Five Group
- Assassination of Malcolm X
- Assassinations of King and Kennedy
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X Is Published
- Baker Dances in La Revue nègre
- Baldwin Voices Black Rage in The Fire Next Time
- Bantu People Invent Copper Metallurgy
- Bantu Peoples Spread Farming Across Southern Africa
- Baraka’s Dutchman Dramatizes Racial Hatred
- Barbara Jordan
- Baron Constantine
- Battle of Adowa
- Battle of Ambuila
- Battle of Amoaful
- Battle of Arogee
- Battle of Blood River
- Battle of Isandhlwana
- Battle of Omdurman
- Battle of Rorke’s Drift
- Benjamin Banneker
- Berry’s “Maybellene” Popularizes Rock and Roll
- Bessie Smith
- Bessie Smith Records “Downhearted Blues”
- Bill Russell
- Billie Holiday
- Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career
- Black Leaders Call for Equal Rights at the Niagara Falls Conference
