Subcategories - African Americans, Blacks
- Frederick Douglass
- Free African Society Is Founded
- Freedmen’s Bureau Is Established
- French Colonial Wars
- Gaafer Muhammad al-Nimeiri
- Gash Civilization Thrives in Africa
- George Washington Carver
- George Washington Williams
- German Colonial Wars
- Ghanaian Empire
- Gordimer Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Gordy Founds Motown Records
- Grandma Moses
- Great Northern Migration
- Guinea-Bissauan War of Independence
- Haile Selassie I
- Haitian Civil War
- Haitian Independence
- Haitian Insurrections
- 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 Tubman
- Henri Christophe
- I Spy Debuts to Controversy
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Idi Amin
- Innovative Black Filmmakers Achieve Success
- Ironworking Spreads into Sub-Saharan Africa
- Italian Colonial Wars
- 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
- Jerry John Rawlings
- Jesse Jackson
- Jesse Owens
- Jessye Norman
- Joe Louis
- John Coltrane
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Julius Nyerere
- Kanem-Bornu Sultanate
- Katherine Dunham
- Kerma Kingdom Develops and Dominates Lower Nubia
- Kerma Kingdom Rules Nubia
- Khoikhoi and Kwadi Adopt Pastoral Lifestyle
