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Abaco, 1974 Abbott, Robert Sengstake, 1870 (see also Newspapers, Journals) Abd-el-Krim, 1924 Abdurahman, Abdul, Dr., 1902 Abelard, Peter, 1079 Abernathy, Ralph D., 1968 Abolitionists, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1843, 1846, 1847 Racists, 1837 Aborigine’s Rights Protection Society, 1897 Abu-l-Abbas, 749 Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1923 Acme Real Estate, 1900 Action Committee on American- Arab Relations, 1973 Actium, Battle of, 31 BCE Adams, Henry, 1879 Adams, John, 1822 Adams, John, Pres., 1785, 1797, 1826, 1839 Adams, John Quincey, Pres., 1825 Adams, Samuel, 1976 Addis Ababa, 1963 Adolplus, Gustavus, 1632 Adowa, Battle of, 1896 Aegatian Isles, Battle of, 241 BCE Aeschylus, 484 BCE, 525 BCE AFofL National Convention, 1917 Afer, Publius Terentius, 185 BCE AFofL/CIO, 1955 Aframerican Proverb, (1979) Africa, Annexation of Southwest, 1884 Belgium, 1876 Colonization, 1880, 1884 Confederation, 1962 Missionaries, 1884 West, 1879, 1893 British, 1897 French, 1893, 1896 “Africa: The Passing of the Golden Age,” 400 BCE “Africa’s Service to the World,” 1907 African Aliens, Number of, 1899 African-American Scholars Council, 1976 African-American Workers Class Organization, 1882 African Association, 1788 African Baptist Church Statistics, 1870 African Civilization, Destruction of, The, 1482 African Communities League, 1918 (see also Garvey, Marcus, UNIA) African Communist, 1959 African Free Society, 1804 African Free Schools (see Black Schools) African Grove Theatre, 1821 African Liberation Movements, 1974 African National Congress (see ANC) African People’s Organization, 1902 African Popes, 189 (see also Popes) African Presence in the Americas Pre-Columbian, 1202, 1324, 1528 (see also other related subjects, e.g., West Indies, Slave Revolts, Slavery, etc.) African Repatriation Convention, 1893 African Rock Paintings, (1979) African Sabbath School Association, 1871 African Studies, 1970 (see also Black Studies, Black Schools, Education) African Suffrage, 1867 Africanus, Scipio, 202 BCE Afrikaans, 1976 “Africa’s Costly Overdose,” 1978 Afro-American Music Opportunities Assoc., 1969 Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, 1973 “Afro-American Symphony,” 1931 (see also William Grant Still) Afro-American Steamship and Mercantile Co., 1893 Agency for International Develop- ment (AID), 1976 Aghasi, Bashir, (1975) Agriculture, West Indian, 1898 Aïda, 1933 Airplane, First Flight, 1903 Air Ship, 1900 Akbar, 1556 Akhenaton, (1551) Akron University, 1870 Alabama, 1540, 1884, 1956, 1975 Alabama AM&N, 1875 Constitution, 1906 Mobile Bay, Battle of, 1864 NAACP, 1958 State University, 1874, 1960 University of, 1956 White Rule, 1874 Alani, 66 BCE Alarcón, Tomás, (1980) Alaric, 410 Alaska, Purchase of, 1867 Albany Movement, 1961 Albertus Magnus, 1193, 1280 Alcorn A&M, 1871, 1876 Aldridge, Amanda Ira, (1950) Aldridge, Ira, 1826 Aldridge Players, Ira, the, 1927 Alexander, I, Tsar, 1807, 1811 Alexander II, Tsar, 1856, (1975) Alexander the Great, 338 BCE, 334 BCE, 332 BCE, 323 BCE, 192 BCE Alger, Horatio, 1899 Algeria, 1830, 1962, 1966, 1976, 1979 Against French Rule, 1945 Algiers, 1830 Algiers Motel Incident, The, 1967 Ali (The Prophet Muhammad’s nephew), 661 Ali, Noble Drew, the, 1913, 1928 Ali, Muhammed, 1820 Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay), 1969 Ali, Sonni, 1460 Alighieri, Dante, 1265, 1318 All-American National Convention, 1935 All-African People’s Conference, 1958, 1960, 1961 All-African Conference, 1961 All-Black Towns and Cities, 1835, 1865, 1914, 1919 All God’s Dangers, 1931 All-Race Sanhedrin Conference, 1924 Allen, Ethan, 1775 Allen, Macon B., 1845 Allen, Richard, 1760, 1787, 1794, 1801, 1816 Allen, Robert L., 1942, 1972 Allen, Thomas C., 1932 Allen, Wilbert, 1973 Allen, William, 1850 Allen University, 1870 Allende, Salvador, 1973, 1974 Allende’s Chile, 1525, 1973, 1977 Alliance for Progress, 1961 Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908, 1913 Alpha Phi Alpha, 1906 Alpha Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio), 1911 Alvarado, 1534 Alvor Agreement (see Angola) Amanitere, 20 BCE Amazon, Expulsion of the English, 1619 “Ambassador of Afri-Culture,” 1970 Ambuila, Battle of, 1665 A.M.E. Church, 1915, 1974 A.M.E. Zion Church, 1821 Statistics, 1870 Amendments, Constitution (see U.S. Constitution) Amenhotep III, 1420 BCE Amenia Conference, 1916 American African Suffrage, 1867 American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833, 1851, 1870 American Colonization Society, 1816, 1817, 1900 American Federation of Labor (AFofL), 1893 American Federation of Negro Students, 1924 American Film Centre, 1940 American Library Assoc., 1975 American Medical Association, Black, 1945 American Mind, the, (1980) American Missionary Association, 1865, 1868 American Negro Academy, 1897 American Negro Theatre, 1940 American Negro Slave Revolts, 1822 American Revolutionary War (of Independence), 1773, 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1914 American Union for Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race, 1835 American Veterans Committee, 1957 Americo-Liberians (see Liberia) Amerindians, 1511, 1516, 1557, 1566 (see also Indians) Amnesty Act, 1872, 1898 White Secret Societies, 1872 Amnesty International, 1877, 1980 Amo, Anton Wilhelm, 1703 Anabaptists, 1532 ANC (African National Con- gress), 1912, 1918, 1927, 1930, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1969, 1975, 1979 Policy & Platform Statement, 1941 Presidents-General, 1912, 1917, 1924, 1927, 1930, 1937, 1940,1949, 1952, 1967 Program of Action, 1949 Womens League, 1943 Youth League, 1943 ZAPU, 1967 Ancient Humanoid Remains, 1959 Anderson, Charles W., 1936 Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,” 1937, 1941, 1943 Anderson, Marian, 1902, 1955 Anderson, Osborn P., 1859 Anglo-American Corp., 1973 Anglo-American War, 1812 Angola, 1571, 1648, 1956, 1961, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980 Alvor Agreement, 1975 MPLA, Support for, 1975 Unity Agreement, 1975 Amistad (see l’Amistad) Anguilla, 1630, 1972, 1974, 1975 Anna Lucasta, 1944 Annapolis Naval Academy, Blacks, 1949 Annual Negro Convention, 1831 Antar, 600 Antietam, Battle of, 1862 Antigua, 1630, 1687, 1728, 1737, 1831, 1844 Anti-Lynching Legislation, 1925 (see also Lynchings) Anti-Miscegenation Law, 1664 Anti-Pass Campaign, 1918, 1944-1945 Antonine Dynasty, 96 Apartheid in U.S., 1919, 1921, 1926 (see also South Africa) Appalachia, 1973, 1975 Apparatus for Transmitting Messages, 1885 Arabs, 1456, 1975 Arab-Israeli War, 1975 Arapahoe Indians, 1897 (see also Indians) arap Moi, Daniel, Pres., 1979 Arbela, Battle of, 331 BCE Arbitration, Labor, 1975 Archadius, 395 Archer, Osceolo, 1963 Ardashir I, 226 Argentina, 1973, 1975 Independent Movie Studio, 1951 Arikpo, Okoi, 1975 Arkansas, 1859 White Rule, 1874 Arkansas AM&N College, 1873 Arkansas Black Political Caucus, 1973 Aristophanes, 427 BCE Arizona, 1538, 1912 Armistice (WWI), 1918 Armstrong, Henry “Hammering Hank,” 1937-1938, 1941, 1942 Armstrong, Louis “Satchmo,” 1900, 1917, 1925 Armstrong, Samuel, Gen., 1839 Army Appropriations Bill, 1864 Arnold, H.A., “Hap,” Gen., 1944 Arron, Hank, 1974 Arthur, Chester A., Pres., 1881 Aruba, 1977 Arusha Declaration, 1967 Asante (Ashanti) Empire, 1750, (1980) ASCRIA, 1979 Ashmun Institute (see Lincoln University) Ashworth, Aaron, 1850 Asia, 133 BCE, 164 AD Asia Minor, 278 BCE Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Acts, 1946 (see also Ghetto Acts) Asoka, 264 BCE Assassinations (Murders, Killings), 1881, 1874, 1886, 1927, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 Assyrian Empire, 745 BCE, 722 BCE Asturias, Miguel Angel, 1974 Ataturk, Kemal, 1922 Athens, 529 Atkinson, Wilson, 1968 Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, 1961 Atlanta Conference for Study of Negro Problems, 1899 Atlanta Federal Prison, 1925, 1975 Atlanta University, 1865 Atlantic Slave Trade, Begin- nings of, 1441, 1492, 1513, 1562 (see also Slave Trade, Slavery) Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1866 Atomic Bombs, First Dropped, 1945 Attalus III, 133 BCE Attica State Prison, 1971 Attila, the Hun, 448, 451, 453 Attucks, Crispus, 1750, 1770 Audubon, John James, 1785 Aurelian, 270 Aurelius, Marcus, 161, 164 Aurungzeb, 1658, 1707 Ausculum, Battle of, 279 BCE Austin, Robert, 1876, 1922 Australia, (1551) Female Suffrage, 1902 Tasmania, (1551), 1803, 1876 Autshumaya, Chief, 1659 Averroës of Córdoba, 1198 Avery College, 1849 Avicenna of Bokhara, 1037 Azanians (see South Africa) Azor, the, 1878 Aztecs, 1325 Barber, 1525 Babylon, Jews in, 586 BCE Babylonia, 745 BCE, 680 BCE Bacon, Francis, Sir, 1561, 1626 Bacon, Roger, 1293 “Bad Blood,” 1932-1972 Badr, Battle of, 623 Bagbile of Lagos, 1968 Bahamas, the, 1973, 1974 Bahia (Brazil), 1549 Bailey, Leonard C., 1899 Bailey, Pearl, 1954, 1958, 1959 Baker, Augusta, 1911 Baker, Ella Jo, 1960 Baker, Josephine, 1906, 1925, 1975 Baker, Lorenzo, 1885 Balaguer, Joaquín, 1974 Balboa, 1513 Baldwin, James, 1924, 1963 Baldwin, William, Jr., Mrs., 1905 Balkans League, 1912 Bambata Rebellion, 1906 Banana Trade, 1869, 1885, 1910, 1974 Bandung Conference, 1955 Bank of U.S., 1791 Banneker, Benjamin, 1731, 1754, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1806 Banning, James H., 1932 Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, 1918 Bantustans (Homelands), 1975, 1976, 1979 Baptism, Slave, 1641, 1667 (see also Slavery) Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 1934, 1975 Barbados, 1627, 1844, 1966, 1974 Barbados Revolt, 1674, 1702 Barber-Scotia College, 1867 Barclay, Edwin, 1943 Barkas, Hamilcar, 264 BCE Barnett, Ida B. Wells, 1878, 1908, 1909, 1915 Barnett, Ferdinand L., 1878 Barnett, Ross, Gov., 1962 Barnum, P.T., 1854 Barth, Heinrich, 1857 Barton, Clara, 1861 Baseball Blacks in White, 1919, 1947 First Black Team, 1887 Basel, Council of, 1431, 1439 Basora, Santiago, 1844 Basotho Congress Party (BCP), 1979 Bassett, Ebenezer, 1869 Basotho-Qwaqwa, Bantustan, 1976 Basutoland, Annexation of, 1868 Basuto People, 1880 Baumfree, Isabella (see Truth, Sojourner) Bauxite, 1974 Bay Psalm Book, 1640 Bay of Pigs, 1961 Beard, Andrew J., 1896 Beckwourth (Beckwith), James, 1798, 1816, 1823, 1828, 1848 Bede, Venerable, the, 735 Behavior Modification, 1935, 1975, 1978 Bekr, Abu, 632 Belafonte, Harry, Jr., 1927, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1976 Belafonte, Marguerite, 1959 Belgian Congo (see Zaire) Belgium, 1908, 1980 Leopold II of, 1884 Belize, 1972, 1975 Bell, Alexander Graham, 1876 Bell, Fred, 1976 Bell, George, 1807 ben Bella, Ahmed, 1979 Benedict College, 1870 Benezet, Anthony, 1713, 1784 Benga, Ota, 1904 Benin, (Nigeria), English in, 1553 (see also Dahomey) Bennett College, 1873 Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928 Berkshire Music Festival, 1935 Berlin, Congress of, 1884 Berlin, Treaty of, 1878 Berliner, Emile, 1887 Bermuda, 1975 Bethel Charity School, 1816 Bethlehem (Penn.), 1741 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875, 1904, 1935, 1955 Bibb, Leon, 1968 Big Mouth Henry, 1857 “Big Stick” Policy, 1904 Biko, Steve, 1946, 1977 Bilbo, Theodore G., 1939 Bill of Rights, 1791 Billingsley, Andrew, 1926 Birmingham Manifesto, 1963 Birney, James G., 1840, 1844 Birth of a Nation, 1915 Birth of a Race, 1918 Bishop, Joshua, 1792 Bishop, Maurice, 1974 Bismarck, Otto von, 1865, 1890 Black America, 1914 Black American and Education, The, 1822, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1833, 1848, 1853, 1874 Black Appalachian Commission, 1973 Black Arts/Artists, 1975 (see also Langston Hughes) Black Banks, 1872, 1873, 1888, 1889, 1905 “Black Belt,” 1880, 1881, 1931 Black Boy, 1945 (see also Wright, Richard) Black Codes, 1705, 1804, 1847, 1865 Black Community Funds, 1951 Black Cowboys, 1857, 1868, 1877 “Black Declaration of Independence,” 1970 Black Exodus, 1910 Black Extravaganza, 1894 Black Film Co., 1921 Black Gross National Product (GNP), 1860, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1876, 1918, 1920, 1954, 1965 Black History Month, 1926 Black Hollywood, 1918, 1929 Black, Hugo, 1962 Black Jacobins, The, 1791 Black Madonna, (1980) Black Man, Father of Civiliza- tion, The, 1910 Black Labor on a White Canal, 1914 Black Masons (see Freema- sonry) Black Muslims (see Islam) Black Panther Party, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980 Black Police, (1890), 1975 Black Population Statistics, 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980 “Black Power,” 1968 Black Reconstruction (see all entries from 1866 to 1877) Black Reconstruction in Ameri- ca, 1863 Black Recording Company, 1921 Black Schools, 1787, 1807, 1820, 1822, 1828, 1829, 1831, 1833, 1834, 1842, 1847, 1848, 1853, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1868, 1870, 1871, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1888, 1916, 1950, 1951 Burning of, 1919 Colleges, 1839, 1842, 1849, 1856, 1860, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868,1869, 1870, 1871, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1890, 1895, 1897, 1900, 1910, 1933, 1947, 1970, 1973 (see also Literacy, Education) Blacks in Politics, 1865, 1866, (1870), 1936, 1938, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976 Black Sea-Rovers, (1975) Black Slave Owners, 1830 Black Song, 1921 Blacks, Stereotyping of, 1922 Black Soldiers, 1775, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1906, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1974, 1975 Alabama, 1865 Appomattox, 1865 Cherbourg, 1864 Darbytown Road, 1864 Deep Bottom, 1864 Fair Oaks, 1864 Florida, 1864 Fort Gilmer, 1864 Fort Harrison, 1864 Fort Pillow, 1864 Grahamsville, 1864 Guntown, 1864 Harrisburg, 1864 Hatchers Run, 1864 Kansas, 1863, 1864 Korea, 1951 Louisiana, 1863 Massachusetts, 1863 Mobile Bay, Battle of, 1864 Nashville, 1864 North Carolina, 1865 Ohio, 1863 Petersburg, 1864 Poison Spring, 1864 Recruitment of, 1863, 1864 South Carolina, 1863, 1865 Statistics on, 1865, 1973 Tennessee, 1864 Vietnam (see Vietnam War) Virginia, 1864, 1865 White’s Ranch, 1865 With Gen. Custer, 1876 With T. Roosevelt, 1898 With U.S. Grant, 1864 Black Star Line Steamship Corp., 1919 Black Studies, 1966, 1970 (see also Education, Black Schools, Segregation) Black Swan Phonograph Co., 1921 Black Theatres, 1919 Blake, Eubie, 1883, 1922, 1924 Blanc, Antoine, 1792 Bland, James A., 1940 Blue, Welcome T., 1900 Bluefield State College, 1895 Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832, 1865, 1881, 1882, 1887, 1907, 1912 (see also Liberia) Boadicea, Queen, 61 Boas, Franz, 1911 Boat-People, Indochinese, 1978 Bobadilla, Tomás, 1844 “Body of Liberties” Laws, 1641 Boers, 1867, 1868 (see also South Africa) Bogle, Paul , 1865 Bokassa, Jean Bedel, “Emperor,” 1979 Boley, (Oklahoma), 1914 Bolin, Jane M., 1939 Bolivia, 1831-1836, 1975 Angola, 1975 Bolívar, Simón, 1783, 1816, 1824 Boll Weevil, 1915 Bonaire, 1977 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1811, 1814, 1815 Bonaparte, Pauline, (1820), (1962) Bond, Julian, 1940, 1966 Bongo, Albert, 1979 Bontemps, Arna, 1936 Booker T. Washington Institute, 1911 (see also Booker T Washing- ton) Books, First Printed, 1446 “Bop Style,” 1941 Bophuthatswana Bantustan, 1976, 1979 Borgia, Rodrigo, 1492 |
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of Bulgaria, 852 Bosman, William, 1688 Boston, 1630, 1638, 1640, 1731, 1732, 1770, 1774, 1820, 1822, 1830, 1835, 1842, 1849, 1891, 1901, 1916, 1926, 1929, 1953, 1975, Fruit Company, 1885 Great Fire, 1872 Tea Party, 1773 United Black Appeal, 1970 Botha, Roelof “Pik,” 1979 Botha, Thozamile, 1980 Botswana, 1895, 1966, 1980 Bouchet, Edward A., 1876 Boukman (see l’Ouverture, Toussaint) Boutelle, Dick, 1968 Bowling Green State Univer- sity, 1914 Boy Scouts of America, 1910 Boycotts, 1904 Alabama, 1955, 1956, 1957 Boston, 1963 Chicago, 1925, 1963, 1965 Georgia, 1962 Louisiana, 1953 South Africa, 1957, 1976, 1979, 1980 Boyd, Albert D. “Starlight,” 1871 Boyd, Walter (see Leadbetter, Huddie), Boyne, Battle of, 1690 Bradley, Thomas, Mayor, 1973 Bradshaw, Robert, 1974 Braithwaite, William S., 1878 Brance Normal School, 1873 Brantley, Henry and Rebecca, 1975 Brazil, 1530, 1549, 1626, 1648, 1695, 1711, 1800, 1822, 1833, 1838, 1841, 1871, 1884, 1885, 1888 Brazzaville Conference, 1944 Brennus, 390 BCE Breathitt, Edward, Gov., 1966 Britain (British), 84, 1627, 1663, 1713, 1726-1728, 1739, 1755, 1756, 1764, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1787, 1788, 1793, 1795, 1800, 1801, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1812, 1814, 1819, 1820, 1827, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1839, 1840, 1843, 1845-1875, 1846, 1849, 1851, 1854, 1854-1856, 1857, 1858, 1863, 1877, 1881, 1902, 1956, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978 Asante, 1896, 1900 Basuto People, 1868, 1880 Benin, 1897 Blacks in, 1976 Boers, 1902 Botswana, 1895 Cameroon, 1960 Chinese Immigration, 1838 Colonization, 1876 Egypt, 1881, 1883 Fashoda Quarrel, 1898 Ghana, 1874, 1900, 1957 Hlubi People, 1873 Irish Home Rule Bill, 1886 Liberia, 1893 Mashonaland, 1890 Natives Disarmament Act, 1873 Nigeria, 1897, 1900 Nile Valley, 1898 South Africa, 1887 Tasmania, (1551), 1803, 1876 Transvaal, 1877, 1878, 1881 Unionist, 1895 West Indians, 1903, 1966 Zululand, 1887 Zulus, 1880, 1878, 1879 British Guiana (Guyana), 1831, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1856, 1858, 1865, 1868, 1895, 1917, 1950, 1966 British Guiana Labor Union, 1919 British Honduras, 1972 British Petroleum, 1965 British South Africa Co., 1887, 1890, 1893 British Sugar Duties Act, 1846 British Revolution, 1688 British-Maroon Treaty, 1739 Broadway, Blacks on, 1921, 1933, 1944 Bronx Zoo, Human Exhibit, 1904 Brooke, Edward W., 1966 Brooks, Clarence, 1932 Brooks, Charles, 1896 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917, 1950 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1889, 1925 (see also Asa Philip Ran- dolph) Brown, Charles, 1949 Brown, Claude, 1973 Brown Fellowship Society, the, 1792 Brown, Elaine, 1973, 1976 Brown, Everrett, 1933 Brown, H. Rap, 1943 Brown, Jill, 1974 Brown, Jim, 1967, 1968, 1973 Brown, John, 1800, 1858, 1859 Brown, Leonard, 1972 Brown, Sterling, 1901, 1939, 1941 Brown, Wesley A., 1949 Brown, Wm. Wells, 1843, 1853, 1858 Browne, Roscoe Lee, 1969 Browne, W.W., 1888 Brownsville, Tex., 1906, 1917 Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841, 1875, 1881, 1898 Bruce, James, 1772 Bruce, John Edward, 1911 Bryan, Andrew, 1792 Buccaneering, 1680 Buchanan, James, Pres., 1857 Bucket Strike, 1918 Buckingham Pictures, 1937 Buckmaster, Henrietta (see Let My People Go) Buddha, 550 BCE Buenos Aires, 1667, 1788 Buganda, Religious War, 1890 Bulgaria, 6 AD Bulhoek Massacre (see Massacres) Bulkley, William Lewis, 1909 Bulldogging, 1905 Bull Run, Battle of, 1861, 1862 Bunche, Ralph J., 1904, 1948, 1950 Bunker, Ellsworth, 1975 Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775, 1816 Bureau of Refugees, Freed- men and Abandoned Lands, 1865 Burke, Yvonne Braithwaite, 1972 Burleigh, Harry T., 1894, 1916 Burnham, Forbes, 1950, 1974, 1978, 1979 Burns, Anthony, 1854 Burr, Aaron, 1804 Burundi, 1962, 1971 Burundi Massacre (see Massacres) Burwell College, 1868 Bustamante, W. Alexander, Sir, 1937, 1962, 1977 Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, 1938, 1977 Butler, Harry, 1926 Buxar, Battle of, 1764 Byno Insurrection, 1560 Bryon, Lord, 1824 Byzantine Fleet, 655 Army, 1071 Byzantium, 667 BCE “Cabin in the Sky,” 1943 Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, 1528 Cabral, Amilcar, 1956, 1973 Cabral, Luîs, 1980 Cachalia, Maulvi, 1955 Caesar, (1820) Caesar, Augustus, 27 BCE, 14 AD Caesar, Julius, 48 BCE, 44 BCE Cailloux, André, 1863 California, 1849, 1850, 1917, 1948, 1968, 1973, 1974 California, Univ. of Berkley, 1868 Los Angeles, 1750, 1781, 1975 Caliphate, Sokoto, 1804 Caligula, 37, 41 Callender Minstrels, 1881 Calloway, Cabell “Cab,” 1906, 1958, 1966 Cambridge, Godfrey, 1963, 1970 Cambyses of Persia, 527 BCE, 525 BCE Cameroon, 1960, 1976, 1980 Camerson, Earl, 1962 Camillus, 366 BCE Canada, 1608, 1850, 1851, 1970, 1974, 1976 Black Population, 1860, 1865, 1901 Candace, 23 BCE Cannae, Battle of, 216 BCE Canute, 1016 Cape Government, Annexa- tion of African Areas, 1879 Cape of Good Hope, Slaves in, 1657 Cape Verde Islands, 1445, 1585, 1959, 1975 Capers, Virginia, 1973 Capet, Hugh, 987 Cap for Bottles and Jars, 1898 Capitol Savings Bank, 1900 Caprivi Strip (see Namibia) Capois, François, 1803 Carey, Archibald, 1957 Caribbean Islands, 1798, 1801, 1904, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978 Africans, 1514, 1600 Amerindians, 1566 (see also West Indies) CARICOM, 1972, 1974 Carlos, John, 1968 Carolingian Dynasty, 721, 751, 843, 987 Carmichael, Stokely (see Toure, Kwame) Carnegie, Andrew, 1904 Carnegie Hall, 1914, 1938 Carney, William H., 1863 Carroll, Diahann, 1954 Carrollton Massacre (see Massacres) Carter, Jimmy, 1976, 1978 Carter, Rosalyn, 1978 Carthage, 800 BCE, 241 BCE, 146 BCE Carthaginian Army, 264 (see also Hannibal) Carver, George Washington, 1864, 1896, 1943, 1945, 1951 Case Institute of Technology, 1880 (see also Western Reserve College) Casa de Contratación, 1510 Casey, Bernie, 1972 Caspian Sea, 102 Castilla, Ramón, 1855 Castro, Fidel, 1958, 1974, 1975, 1977 Cassiodorus, 553 Catalan Atlas, 1375 Catherine the Great, 1762 Catholic Imperialism, 1573 Catholics, 1960, 1980 Black Bishop, 1875 Cato, Milton, 1975 Caudine Forks, Battle of, 321 BCE Cayenne, 1972 Cazenave, Pierre, (1975) Centennial of American Independence, 1876 Central African Republic (Empire), 1960, 1976, 1979, 1980 Central America (see Latin America) Central College (New York), 1850 Central High School (Cleve- land), 1910 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1961, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979 Central State College (Uni- versity), 1887, 1891, 1927 Century of Negro Progress Exposiion, 1933, 1963 Césaire, Aimé, 1913 Ceteswayo, 1879 Ceuta (see Spanish Morocco) Chad, 1960, 1968, 1975, 1979, 1980 Chaeronia, Battle of, 338 BCE Chaldean, 606 BCE Chama cha Mapinduzi, 1976 Chamorro Cardenal, Pedro Joaquín, 1977 Chandragupta, 321 BCE, 303 BCE Chaney, James E., 1964 Changamire, 1450, 1480, 1700 Charlemagne, 768, 774, 802, 814 Charles I, 1625, 1629, 1640, 1649 Charles II, 1660, 1663 Charles V, 1500, 1517, 1520, 1530, 1556 Charleston, S.C., 1670, (1979) Charleston, Cornelius H., 1952 Chatman, Lee, 1966 Chattanooga Outrage, 1927 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1400 Chavis, Ben, 1980 Chavis, John, 1800, 1831 Chenault, Lawrence, 1925 Cherokees, 1841 (see also Indians) Cherokee Nation Council, 1867 Chesson, Joseph, 1979 Chesnutt, Charles Wadell, 1858, 1927 Chestnutt, Helen, 1910 Cheyenne, 1897 (see also Indians) Chicago, 1790, 1847, 1880, 1885, 1886, 1890, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1936, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1975, 1976 (see also Point de Saible, Jean Baptiste) Population Statistics, 1880 “Chicago 8,” 1973 Chile, 1816-1823, 1973, 1975 Africans in, 1525 Angola, 1975 La Araucana, 1525 Chilembwe, John, 1914 China, 1973 Boxer Rebellion, 1900 400 Years of Division, 220 Germany, 1898 Japan, 1894 South Africa, 1904 Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 Immigration, 1843, 1858 Chipenda, Daniel, 1974 Chisholm, Shirley, 1972 Chisholm Trail, 1868, 1879 Chosroes I, 579 Chosroes II, 590, 619, 628 Christian Persecution, 250 Christianity before Christ, 350 Christianity in Ethiopia, 350 Christmas, Lee, 1912 Christophe, Henri, 1971 (see also Haiti) Chronicles, 586 BCE Church, Black Attendance Figures, 1910, 1926 Churches (Protestant) AME, 1796, 1830, 1864, 1870, 1876, 1880 AMEZ, 1821, 1870 Baptist, 1773, 1776, 1780, 1788, 1792, 1794, 1809, 1865, 1870, 1923 Bombings of, 1961, 1962, 1963 Burning of, 1919, 1962 Cleveland, 1864 CME, 1870 Southern U.S., 1865 Churches (Catholic) Desegregation, 1962, 1947 Segregation, 1922, 1962 Churchill, Winston, 1940, 1955 Cincinnati, 1829, 1836, 1845, 1865, 1884, 1893 Ciskei Bantustan, 1876 Civil Rights, 1865, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1874, 1875, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 Civil Rights Acts, 1866, 1874,1965, 1875, 1883, 1884, 1964, Commission on, 1946, 1947 Demonstrations, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 Freedom Riders, 1961 Marches, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1968 Murders, 1870, 1964, 1965 U.S. Senate, 1963 Civil War (American), 1860, 1861,1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866 Civil War (Spanish), 1936 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1937 Clafin College, 1869, 1968 Clark College, 1869 Clark, John Henrik, 400 BCE, 1970 Clark, Kenneth B., 1914, 1965 Claudius I, 41, 54 Claudius II, 269 Clay, Cassius, 1810 Clay, Cassius (see Ali, Muhammad) Cleaver, Eldridge, 1968, 1975 Clef Club, 1910 Clement, Emma Clarissa, 1946 Clement, Rufus, 1946, 1953 Cleopatra, 51 BCE, 31 BCE Cleveland, Grover, Pres., 1885, 1893 Cleveland, Ohio, 1808, 1830, 1840, 1844, 1847, 1848, 1851, 1854, 1860, 1863, 1864, 1870, 1871, 1884, 1888, 1890, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1929, 1932, 1968 Apprenticeship Training, 1910 Average Monthly Rent, 1918 Black Banks, 1921 Black Employment, 1870, 1918, 1919 Black Institutions, 1929 Black Physicians, 1915 Employment Statistics, Skilled Trades, 1870 Gambling, 1871 Gilpin Players, 1920 Girls Industrial School, 1920 Poor Feather Campaign, 1967 Steel Industry, 1890 Cleveland Association of Colored Men, 1908 Cleveland State University, 1964 Cliff, Jimmy, 1973 Clitus the Black, 334 BCE Clive, Robert, Gen., 1774 Clothes Drier, 1892 Clothilde (see Slave Ships) Clovis, 481 Colby, William W., 1974, 1975 Cohen, Octavius Roy, 1925, 1926 COINTELPRO, 1976, 1980 Cole, Nat “King,” 1919, 1956, 1958, 1959 Coleman, Bessie, 1922, 1926 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1898 Colfax Massacre (see Massacres) Collins, Janet, 1951 Colombia (South America), 1819, 1972, 1974, 1975 “Colonial Act” (Portugal), 1930 Colonialism, 1876, 1884, 1896, 1900, 1946 Colonialism, Domestic (see all entries, any year, from 1400 onward related to Africans in the U.S.) Colonization Experiments in Haiti, 1863, 1864 Colored American, 1837 Colored Farmer’s Alliance, 1886 Colored Feature Photo Plays, Inc., 1921 Colored Independent Party, 1883 Colored Knights of the Pythias, 1870 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870 Colored National Democratic League, 1912 Colored National Emigration Assoc., 1901 Colored National Labor Union, 1871 Colored Peoples Congress, 1953 Colored Players Film Corp., 1920, 1929 Colour Bar Act, 1926 Coltrane, John “Trane,” 1926, 1967 Columbia Pictures, 1939 Columbia University, 1954 Columbus, Christopher, 1506 First Voyage, 1492 Second Voyage, 1493 Third Voyage, 1498 Fourth Voyage, 1502 Comintern World Congress, 1928 Committee of Twelve, 1904 Commission on Slavery, 1926 (see also Justice Depart- ment) Communism (see Marx, Karl) Communist Party, USA, 1928, 1935, 1948, 1972, 1980 Depression Years, 1931, 1932, 1934 South Africa, 1921, 1930, 1950, 1959, 1960, 1962 Company of Royal Adventures, 1588 Compromise of 1850 Concord, Temple of, 366 BCE Conditon, Elevation, Emigra- tion and Destiny of the Colored People of the U.S., 1852 (see also Delany, Martin Robison) Cone, James H., 1938 Confederate Congress, 1863 Confederate States, 1860 Conference of Independent African States, 1960 Confiscation Act, 1861 Confucius, 550 BCE Congo, Peoples Republic of the, 1960, 1976 Congo (Zaire), 1490, 1506, 1607-1611, 1665, 1876, 1884, 1908, 1960, 1966, 1967 Congress, Blacks in, 1934 Congress, First Federal, 1788 First Law, 1792 Congress Movement, 1956 Congress of Berlin, 1884 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1920, 1922, 1942, 1947, 1961, 1962, 1968 Congress of the Omani Revolu- tion, 1968 Congressional Black Caucus, 1975 Congressional Medal of Honor, Blacks, 1951, 1952 Connecticut, School Desegration, 1867 Constance, Council of, 1415 Constantine the Great, 306, 314, 323, 330, 350 Constantinople, 667 BCE, 865, 904, 1043, 1204, 1261, 1453 Constitutional Convention, U.S., 1787, 1868 Container Corporation of America, 1975 Continental Congress, U.S., 1774, 1775, 1776 Continental Oil Company (CONOCO), 1974 “Continental System,” 1811 Convention Movement, 1830, 1835 Convention of Colored Citizens, Ohio State, 1850 Convertible Setee and Bed, 1897 Conyers, John, 1929 Conyers, John H., 1872 Cook, Will Marion, 1869, 1898, 1919 Coolidge, Calvin, Pres., 1923, 1924 Cooper, Anna J., (1979) Copernicus, Nicholas, 1473 Copeland, John, 1859 Coppin, L.J., 1800 CORE (see Congress of Racial Equality) Cornell Univeristy, 1906 Corn Harvester, 1890 Corn Silker, 1894 Cornwallis, 1781 Cortés, Juan, 1519 Cortez, Hernando, 1519, 1547 Cosby, Bill, 1972 Costa Rica, 1972, 1974, (1980) Costin, Louisa Parke, 1831 Cotton, 1800, 1831, 1866, 1900, 1911, 1912, 1929 Depression in South, 1913, 1929 Council for Non-European Trade Unions, 1941 Counter-Coup: The Struggle for Iran, 1974 Coushatta Massacre (see Massacres) Cowboys, Black (see Black Cowboys) “Coxey’s Army,” 1894 Craft, William and Ellen, 1848 Crandall, Prudence, 1833 Crassus, 53 BCE Crawford, Hasely, 1976 |
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Horse, Chief, 1877 Creoles, 1860 Cretan Civilization, 1600 BCE Crimean War, 1854-1856 Crisis, The (see Newspapers and Journals) Crittenden Compromise, 1860 Croesus, 550 BCE Crummell, Alexander, 1835, 1897 Cromwell, Oliver, 1650, 1655, 1658 Crosby, Edward W., 1867, 1932, 1966 Crosby, Oscar, 1847 Crow Indians, 1828 Crown Colony Government, 1865 Crusades, 1095, 1147, 1189, 1202, 1212, 1221, 1228, 1244, 1270, 1271 Crusaders, Catholic, 1420, 1431 Cruse, Harold W., 1973 C.S.S. Alabama, 1864 C.S.S. Merrimac, (1975) Cuba, 1838, 1840, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1854, 1876, 1880, 1886, 1895-1898, 1898, 1890, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1918, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, (1980) Africans, 1773, 1841, 1899 African Population, 1861, 1877, 1887, 1899, 1907, 1919, 1932 American Intervention in, 1903, 1961 Guantánamo Bay, 1958 Haitians, 1902 Independence, 1895, 1898 Missile Crisis, 1962 Patronato System, 1886 Slavery, 1880 Ten Year’s War, 1868 Cuffee, Paul, Capt., 1759, 1808, 1811 Culebra Island, 1975 Cullen, Countee, 1903, 1946 “Heritage,” 1946 Curaçao, 1977 Curtain Rod Support, 1896 Curtis Institute of Music, 1924 Curtiss, Willa Pearl, 1951 Custer, George A., Gen., 1876 Cuyahoga County Colonization Society, 1826 Cyazares, 550 BCE Cyrus, 550 BCE, 539 BCE da Fiesole, Fra Angelico, 1387 da Gama, Vasco, 1497 da Vinci, Leonardo, 1452 Daaga, 1837 Dabney, W.P., 1907 Dada, Idi Amin, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1980 Dahomey (Benin), 1735, 1960 Dalindyebo, Sabat, 1980 Dandridge, Dorothy, 1923, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1965 Danelaw, 886 Danes (Danish), 886, 1016, 1619, 1787, 1916, 1917 Daniels, Billy, 1959 Daniels, Ron, 1973, 1975, 1980 dan Fodio, Uthman, 1804 Dante (see Alighieri) Darius, I, 521 BCE, 465 BCE Darius III, 331 BCE, 330 BCE Dark Ghetto, 1965 Darrow, Clarence, 1827 Dart, Isom, 1868 Darwin, Charles, 1882 Darwinian Theory, 1904, 1925 Davis, Samuel, 1757 Davis, Angela, 1975, 1980 Davis, Donna P., 1975 Davis Bend (Miss.), 1835, 1865, 1914 Davis, Benjamin O., Jr., Gen., 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1959 Davis, Benjamin O., Sr., Gen., 1940 Davis, Jefferson, 1861, 1865, 1870 Davis, Leroy, 1867 Davis, Miles, 1926 Davis, Ossie, 1917, 1950, 1961, 1963, 1973 Dawes Act, 1887 Dawson, William L., 1886, 1949 Day, William Howard, 1847 Dayton, University of, 1975 “Deadwood Dick” (see Love, Nat) Death Penalty, White Man Mur- ders African, 1968 de Baptiste, George, 1842 Debayle, Anastasio Somoza, 1974, 1977 de Berrio, Antonio, 1595 de Céspedes, Carlos Manuel, 1868 Decius, Emperor, 251 Declaration of Independence U.S., 1776 Black, 1970 Dee, Ruby, 1950, 1963 de Erauzú, Catalina, 1592, 1622 de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso, 1525 de Gaulle, Charles, 1958 de Gobineau, Joseph, 1853 de Gouvenot, Lauret, 1517 De Grasse, John V., 1854 Delaney, Martin R., 1843, 1847, 1851, 1852, 1854 de las Casas (see Friar Bartolomé) de Lavallade, Carmen, 1959 Delaware State College, 1891 Delgado, Morua, 1909 Delhi (India), 1206 Del Monte Corp., 1974 Dellums, Ron, 1975 de León, Ponce, 1512, 1572 de Lesseps, Ferdinand, 1859 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 1913 Democratic Convention, “Dixie- crats” Bolt, 1948 Democratic Party, Black Voters, 1908 Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), 1960 (see also Seko, Mobutu Sese; Congo) de Nobrega, Manuel, 1557 Dent, Albert W., 1953 de Olano, Nuño (Nuflo), 1513, (1980) de Porres, Martin, 1579 de Priest, Oscar, 1871, 1915, 1929, 1951 de Saible, Jean Baptiste Pointe, 1745, 1790 de Salas, Claudio Brindis, (1980) de Santa Cruz, Andres, 1831-1836 de San Martín, José, 1816-1823 Desegregation, Public Facilities, 1956, 1946, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961 Catholic Schools, 1947, 1962 Housing, 1962 Public Schools, 1840, 1849, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1880, 1884, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 de Sores, Jacques, 1554 Dessalines, Jean Jacques, 1791, 1804 d’Estaing, Giscard, 1980 Device for Rolling Cigarettes, 1897 de Zumarraga, Juan, 1547 Detroit, 1963, 1967, 1975 Dhofar Liberation Front, 1965, 1968 Diagne, Blaise, 1914 Diamonds in South Africa, 1867 Díaz, Bartolomé, 1487 Díaz, Diniz, 1444 Dickens’ Place, 1842 Diego García, Island of, 1979 Diggs, Charles, C., 1922, 1975 Diggs, Irene, Dr., 1695 Dillard University, 1935, 1953 Dinizulu, 1889 Diocletian, 284, 303 Disc Recording, 1887 Discrimination, 1963, 1965 Atlanta, 1960 Chicago, 1953, 1962 Cleveland, 1918, 1926 Daytona Beach, 1926 Harlem, 1963 Housing, 1912, 1918, 1950, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1976 New York, 1905, 1962 Protests, 1941 St. Louis, 1925 South Carolina, 1968 U.S. Government, 1951, 1953 Washington, D.C., 1953 (see also Genocide) Dixiecrats (see Democratic Convention) Dixon, Elmer, 1973 Divine Comedy, The, 1318 (see also Alighieri, Dante Divine, Father (Major M.J.), 1882, 1965 Djibouti, 1980 Dodson, Jacob, 1843 Dodson, Owen, 1915 Dolben, William, Sir, 1788 “Dollar Diplomacy,” 1904, 1961 Dominica, 1972, 1974, 1978 Dominican Order, 1221 Dominican Republic, 1844, 1890, 1916, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1975 Dom Pedro II, 1838 Donato, Martin, 1845 Dorman, Isaiah, 1876 Dorsey, Carolyn, 1966 Dorsey, C. Marcellus, 1899 Dorsey, Decatur, 1864 Dorsey, Thomas A., 1921 dos Santos, José, E., 1979 Douglas, Aaron, 1899 Douglass, Frederick, 1817, 1838, 1841, 1845, 1847, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1859, 1867, 1874, 1877, 1881, 1889, 1895 Douglass, Frederick, Memorial Hospital, 1895 Douglas, Margaret, 1853 Dowdell, Rick, 1970 Drake, Francis, Sir, 1572, 1585, 1595 Drew, Charles Richard, Dr., 1904, 1940, 1950 Drew, Timothy (see Ali, Noble Drew, the) Dube, J.L., Dr., 1912 DuBois, Shirley Graham, Mrs., 1906 DuBois, W.E.B., 1863, 1868, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1963 Dumas, Alexandre (fils), 1844 Dumas, Alexandre (père), 1844 Dumas, Henry, 1970 Dumas, Maj., (1974) Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre, 1762, 1793 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872, 1896, 1906 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, Apartments, 1928 Dunbar Hotel, 1928 Dunham, Katherine, 1910, 1944 Dunn, Oscar J., 1868 Dürer, Albrecht, 1471 Durham, James, 1800 Durkee, James Stanley, 1926 Dutch (see Holland) Dutch War, 1672 Duvalier, François “Papa Doc,” 1975 Duvalier, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” 1972, 1974 Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 1975 Dymally, Marvyn, 1974, 1975 Dynasties, Egyptian XXVth, 790 BCE XXXVIth, 664 BCE XXXIst, 332 BCE East African Shipping Line, 1966 East African Cooperation Treaty, 1967, 1980 East & Central African States Summit, 1969 East Indian Immigration, 1851 East Indian National Congress, 1885 Eastman Kodak Co., 1924 Eastman School of Music, 1921 Ebed-Melch, (1974) Ebony Magazine, 1918 Echeverría, Luís, 1972, 1975, 1976 Economics of Racism, USA, The, 1975 Ecuador, 1825-1827, 1830, 1974 Eden, Anthony, 1955 Education, 1784, 1903, 1933, 1966, 1975, 1980 Black Graduates, 1877, 1892, 1895, 1900, 1965 Black Ph.Ds, 1885, 1876, 1899 Black Teachers, 1831, 1888, 1895 Honorary Degrees, 1896 Integration, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1880, 1883, 1884, 1890, 1925, 1926, 1941, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965 Literacy, 1865, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1930 Morrill Act, 1862, 1890 (see also Black Schools, Segregation) Nurses, 1891 Statistics on, 1859, 1877, 1899, 1962, 1965, 1972 Educational Association, Black, 1875 Edward I, 1271 Edward Wilmot Blyden Club, 1907 Edwards, James, 1959 Edwards, Shepard N., 1957 Egbert, 802, 828 Egg Beater, 1884 Egypt, 1420 BCE, 790 BCE, 670 BCE, 610 BCE, 400 BCE, 332 BCE, ca. 243 BCE, 969, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1975, 1979 Britain, 1883, 1898, 1956 France, 1956 Government, 1881 Independence of, 1600 BCE Lower Egypt, 667 BCE, 664 BCE Necho, 608 BCE, 604 BCE Einstein, Albert, 1932, 1955 Eisenhower, Dwight D., Pres., 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957 Elevator, 1887 Elizabeth I, 1558, 1562, 1588 Elizabeth II, 1975 Elizabeth City State University, 1891 Ellington, Edward K. “Duke,” 1899, 1927, 1932, 1965 Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842, 1884 Ellis, William Henry, (1974) Elison, Ralph W., 1914, 1952 Eldridge, David Roy, 1911 Elizabeth of Russia, Empress, 1741, 1762 El Salvador, 1890 el-Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik (Malcolm X), 1925, 1964, 1965 Emancipation Act (British), 1833, 1834 “Emancipation Day” (see “June ‘Teenth”) Emancipator, The, 1820 Emancipator & Free American, 1842 Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, 1963 Emigration of U.S. Blacks, 1759, 1808, 1811, 1820, 1821, 1834, 1835, 1839, 1840, 1854, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1878, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1910, 1913, 1931 Emlen Institute, 1842 Emmanuel, Victor, 1861 Emperor Jones, The, 1920 Empire Savings & Loan Co., 1921 Employment (Unemployment), 1894, 1936 Employment Figures, 1926, 1976, 1980 Enforcement Acts, 1870, 1894, 1897 England Gladstone, 1892 Parliament, 1265 Peasants Revolt, 1381 (see also British, Britain) English, 425 in Ireland, 1641 Entebbe, Raid on, 1976 Entertainment, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1968, 1975, 1976 All-Black, 1890, 1891, 1898, 1911 Blacks at White House, 1892 Blacks on Broadway, 1896, 1933, 1943, 1944, 1953, 1959, 1961 Comedies, 1898, 1930 Films with and about Blacks, 1903, 1905, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973 Opera, 1949, 1951, 1955 Radio (Black), 1949 Entertainers, 1902, 1906, 1910 Ephthalites, 470, 565, 528 Equal Opportunity, U.S. Defense Department, 1975 Equatorial Guinea, 1968, 1980 Equiano, Olaudah, 1756, 1789 Erie Canal, 1832 Erie Railroad, 1841 Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), 1974 Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), 1974 Esarhaddon, 680 BCE Esteñoz, Evaristo, 1907, 1912 Estevanico, 1528, 1538, 1539 Ethiopia, 790 BCE, 350, (1870), 1885, 1896, 1935, 1941, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1980 (see also Selassie, Haile) Ethiopian Manifesto, An, 1829 Ethnics, White, 1975 Etruscan Fleet, 474 BCE Europe’s, Jim, 369th Infantry Band, 1918 European Common Market, 1958, 1975 European/Caribbean Sugar Trade, 1456, 1500, 1764, 1796,1813, 1837, 1846, 1962 Eustache, (1971) Evans, Ahmed, 1968, 1969 Evans, John H., 1897 Evans, Melvin H., 1971 Evaporating Pan, 1846 Everlasting League, 1291 Evers, Charles, 1969, 1975 Evers, Medgar W., 1963, 1969, 1975 Evolution, Teaching of (see Scopes, John) “Exodusters, the,” 1879 Experiment in Higher Educa- tion, 1966 Factory Act, First, 1819 Fabio, Sarah W., 1928 Fair Employment Practices Com- mission (FEPC), 1941, 1945 Famine, 1980 Fanon, Frantz, 1961 Farad, W.D., the Honorable, 1934 Farm Laborers, 1920 Farm Property, African-Owned, 1900, 1910, 1919, 1920 Farmer, James, 1920, 1922, 1942 Farrakhan, Abdul Haleem (Min. Louis), 1975 “Far South Camp,” 1973 Fascism, 1936, 1974, 1975, 1979 Fashoda Quarrel, 1898 Fatimite Caliphate, 969 Fauntroy, Walter, 1975 Fauset, Crystal Bird, 1938 Fayetteville State College, 1877 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion), 1975, 1976, 1980 FDR (see Roosevelt, Franklin Delano) Featherstone, Ralph, 1970 Federal Arts Project, 1935 Federal Emergency Relief, Program, 1934 Federal Housing Administration, 1933 Federal Prisoners’ Coalition, 1975 Federation of South African Women, 1954 Fenn College, 1965 (see also Ohio Public Univer- sities) Ferdinand, King, 1510 Fernando Po, 1968 Fields, Cora, 1910 Fields, Cyrus, 1866 Fifers and Drummers, (1979) Fifteenth Amendment, 1869, 1870 Figueiredo, João, 1980 Fiji Islands, 1885 Fillmore, Millard, Pres., 1850 Fire Next Time, The, 1963 First Pan-African Culture Festi- val, 1969 Fisher, Bram, 1946, 1975 Fisk Academy and Normal School (University), 1866, 1875, 1925, 1975 Jubilee Singers, 1875 Fitzgerald, Ella, 1958 Five Negro Presidents of the U.S., 1921 “Five Points” (New York City), 1842, 1860 Flag, Adoption of Red, Black & Green (see Garvey, Marcus; UNIA) Flavian Dynasty, 69 Fleming, Thomas W., 1909 Flipper, Henry O., 1877 Flores, Juan José, 1830 Florida, 1973, 1974, 1978 Africans in, 1565, 1816 KKK, 1870, 1871 Reclamation Projects, 1926 Rosewood, 1923 White Rule Restored, 1876 Florida A&M University, 1887, 1960 Florida Territory, 1819 FNLA (Front for the National Liberation of Angola), 1975 Folding Bed, 1899 Ford, Gerald, Pres., 1974, 1975 Ford, James W., 1932 Ford, John, 1974 Forest City (see Cleveland, OH) Forest & Lumber Workers Union of the IWW, 1912 Forman, James, 1962 Forrest, Nathan Bedford, Gen., 1864 Fort Blount, 1816 Fort Chistianborg, 1645 Fort de Joux (see l’Ouverture, Toussaint) Fort Pillow Massacre (see Massacres) Fort Sumter, 1861 Fort Valley State College, 1895 Fort Wagner, Charge on, 1863 “Forty Acres and a Mule,” 1865, 1866 Fortune, T. Thomas, 1856, 1890 Fountain Pen, 1890 Fourteenth Amendment, 1868 “Fourth of July, The,” 1852 Foxx, Redd, 1970 France (French), 1755, 1756, 1780, 1792, 1830, 1831, 1851, 1912, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1974, 1979, 1980 African Colonies, 1641, 1893, 1896, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1958, 1960, 1968 Chamber of Deputies, 1914 England, 1898 in Brazil, 1711 Indian War, 1756 in Egypt, 1956 in Mexico, 1863 Peasant Revolt, 1358 Reign of Terror, 1793 Revolution, 1789 Slavery outlawed in, 1571 Viet Nam, 1946 Frances, H. Minton, 1975 Francis I, 1547, 1515 Franco-Austrian War, 1855 Franco, Francisco, Gen., 1936 Franco-Prussian War, 1870, 1871 Franklin, Benjamin, 1774, 1789 Franklin, John Hope, 1915, 1956, 1966 Fraunces, Phoebe, 1776 Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894, 1939 Frazier, Susan E., 1895 Frederick I, 1701 Frederick the Great, 1713, 1740 Frederick II, 1198, 1228, 1239, 1245, 1250 Frederick III, 1888 Free African Society, 1787 Free Burghers, 1657, 1798 Freedmen’s Bank, Failure of, 1874 in Charleston, S.C., 1873 Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865, 1867, 1869, 1870, 1872 Statistics on, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 1866 Freedmen’s Relief Association, 1862 Freedmen’s Savings & Trust Bank, 1865, 1872 Freedom and Peace Party, 1968 Freedom Fighters, Africa, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 “Freedom Riders, 1947, 1961 Freeman, Al, Jr., 1967, 1969 Freemasonry, 1787 (see also Knights of the Phythias) Free Soil Party, 1847, 1852 FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975 Frémont, John C., 1843, 1848, 1856, 1861 French Guiana, 1972 Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, 1516 Friar Montesinos, 1511 “From Spirituals to Swing” Con- certs, 1938 Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertoriqueña (FALN), 1975 Fugger, Jacob, 1517, 1520 Fugitive Slave Law, 1793, 1850, 1864 (see also Slavery) Fulani, the, 1804 Fuller, Tom, 1790 Future in the Present, The, 1948 |