Black history in the United States is a rich and varied chronicle of slavery and liberty, oppression and progress, segregation and achievement. Though captive and free Africans were likely present in the Americas by the 1400s, the kidnapped men, women and children from Africa who were sold firs...
June 14:Harriet Beecher Stoweis born. She becomes the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which expresses her moral outrage at the institution ofenslavementand its destructive effects on both White and Black Americans. The book helps build anti-enslavement sentiment in America and abroad. When Stowe...
Representatives of seceded states meet in Montgomery, Alabama, and form the Confederate States of America, electing Jefferson Davis as president. The CSA constitution ensures the extension of slavery into new states and territories. April 12–14, 1861 The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, a fed...
American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lin
Lift Every Voice is a concise examination of how the sins of America's past evolved into a painful reality that was obscured until a global movement declared that Black lives matter. It explores the history of the Black experience by dissecting events that propagated White dominance through system...
(July 12–16) and Detroit (July 23–30). They are among the many flare-ups that occur in cities across America during the summer of 1967, resulting in around 80 deaths and 17,000 arrests. In the majority of disturbances, confrontations occur between Black protesters and white police ...
It would also explain why Duduman (if he is correct) couldn’t ‘see’ two of the four participants in the conference to destroy America with nuclear fire, either because their identity couldn’t be seen by human eyes or that their kingdoms were a product of satan or that the kingdoms ...
There may only be three films so far, but the Men in Black movies have slowly evolved their history and the lore that supports them over the years. To make matters more complicated, along with the story of J being recruited into the organization by K, there's playful hints at a bigger...
The History of Rewriting PHP If you work on the web, you know that with software, things don’t always go right the first time. The […] Jul 06 1995 Newgrounds One of the first online communities, Tom Fulp launches Newgrounds as a simple online extension of his in-print zine. In 20...
In September:Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition. The National Baptist Convention of America is established through the merging of three Baptist organizations—the Foreign Mission Baptist Convention, the American National Baptist Convention, and the ...