Subcategories - African Americans, Blacks
- Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X Is Assassinated
- The Black Panther Party Is Organized
- Boer Wars
- Booker T. Washington
- Brown v. Board of Education Ends Public School Segregation
- Brown Wins a Grammy for “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”
- Cape-Xhosa Wars
- Cetshwayo
- Chadian Civil War
- Charlie Parker
- Charlotte Forten
- Chinua Achebe
- Chisholm Becomes the First Black Woman Elected to Congress
- City-State of Yeha Flourishes in the Ethiopian Highlands
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Civil War of the Dominican Republic
- Civil Wars of Rwanda and Burundi from 1959 to 2000
- Clarence Thomas
- Colin Powell
- Commercial City of Jenne Is Founded on Niger River
- Conflict in Liberia
- Congolese Civil War
- The Congress of Racial Equality Forms
- Congress Passes the Voting Rights Act
- CORE Stages a Sit-in in Chicago to Protest Segregation
- CORE Stages the “Journey of Reconciliation”
- The Cosby Show Makes Television History
- The Council of Federated Organizations Registers Blacks to Vote
- Davis’ Birth of the Cool Recordings Spawn 1950’s Cool Jazz
- Davis’ Bitches Brew Vitalizes Jazz-Rock Fusion
- Desmond Tutu
- Dingiswayo
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Do the Right Thing Establishes Lee as a World-Class Director
- Dred Scott
- East African Trading Port of Rhapta Flourishes
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ellington Begins an Influential Engagement at the Cotton Club
- Ellison’s Invisible Man Is Published
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Ethiopian Conflicts
- Executive Order 8802
- Félix Éboué
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny
- Festivals Mark a Peak in the Dance Created by Black Artists
- First African American University
- First Black Codes
- First Fugitive Slave Law
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Frantz Fanon
