Subcategories - African Americans, Blacks
- Khoisan Peoples Disperse Throughout Southern Africa
- Kigeri IV
- King Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech
- Kingdom of Aksum Emerges
- Kingdom of Meroë
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Langston Hughes
- Last Slave Ship Docks at Mobile
- Leontyne Price
- Léopold Senghor
- Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis
- Lobengula
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Los Angeles Riots
- Louis Armstrong
- Lutuli Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Lydenburg Bantus Sculpt Life-Size Terra-cotta Heads
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Mahalia Jackson Begins Her Recording Career
- Malcolm X
- Mali Empire
- Mansa Mūsā
- Marcus Garvey
- Marian Anderson
- Marian Anderson Is Barred from Constitution Hall
- Marley’s Natty Dread Establishes Reggae’s Popularity
- Marshall Becomes First African American Supreme Court Justice
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Delivers his “I have a Dream” Speech
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Is Assassinated in Memphis
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Leads a March from Selma to Montgomery
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- Mashariki Bantu Establish Chifumbaze Ironworking Culture
- Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery
- Mau Mau Rebellion
- Maya Angelou
- Menelik II
- Meredith Integrates University of Mississippi
- Meredith Registers at “Ole Miss”
- Meredith’s Enrollment Integrates the University of Mississippi
- Military of Ethiopia
- Million Man March Draws African American Men to Washington, D.C.
- Million Woman March Draws Many Thousands to Philadelphia
- The Miniseries Roots Dramatizes the African-American Experience
- Mississippi Disfranchisement Laws
- Mitchell Founds the Dance Theater of Harlem
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- Moïse Tshombe
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Mozambican Civil War
