Subcategories - African Americans, Blacks

  1. Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X Is Assassinated
  2. The Black Panther Party Is Organized
  3. Boer Wars
  4. Booker T. Washington
  5. Brown v. Board of Education Ends Public School Segregation
  6. Brown Wins a Grammy for “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”
  7. Cape-Xhosa Wars
  8. Cetshwayo
  9. Chadian Civil War
  10. Charlie Parker
  11. Charlotte Forten
  12. Chinua Achebe
  13. Chisholm Becomes the First Black Woman Elected to Congress
  14. City-State of Yeha Flourishes in the Ethiopian Highlands
  15. Civil Rights Act of 1866
  16. Civil War of the Dominican Republic
  17. Civil Wars of Rwanda and Burundi from 1959 to 2000
  18. Clarence Thomas
  19. Colin Powell
  20. Commercial City of Jenne Is Founded on Niger River
  21. Conflict in Liberia
  22. Congolese Civil War
  23. The Congress of Racial Equality Forms
  24. Congress Passes the Voting Rights Act
  25. CORE Stages a Sit-in in Chicago to Protest Segregation
  26. CORE Stages the “Journey of Reconciliation”
  27. The Cosby Show Makes Television History
  28. The Council of Federated Organizations Registers Blacks to Vote
  29. Davis’ Birth of the Cool Recordings Spawn 1950’s Cool Jazz
  30. Davis’ Bitches Brew Vitalizes Jazz-Rock Fusion
  31. Desmond Tutu
  32. Dingiswayo
  33. Dizzy Gillespie
  34. Do the Right Thing Establishes Lee as a World-Class Director
  35. Dred Scott
  36. East African Trading Port of Rhapta Flourishes
  37. Ella Fitzgerald
  38. Ellington Begins an Influential Engagement at the Cotton Club
  39. Ellison’s Invisible Man Is Published
  40. Emancipation Proclamation
  41. Ethiopian Conflicts
  42. Executive Order 8802
  43. Félix Éboué
  44. Félix Houphouët-Boigny
  45. Festivals Mark a Peak in the Dance Created by Black Artists
  46. First African American University
  47. First Black Codes
  48. First Fugitive Slave Law
  49. Fourteenth Amendment
  50. Frantz Fanon