Passages of a people ; Reconsidering the history of blacks in America as a series of migrations instead of simple timelineKenneth J Cooper
1830s Massive increases in Ashkenazi German Jews & Eastern Europe emigrating to America settled largely in New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah, Baltimore, and the Northeast (particularly in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia). They far surpassed the mostly Sephardic Jewish community in Charleston. 17...
New Netherlands law forbids residents from harboring or feeding runaway slaves. 1641 The D'Angola marriage is the first recorded marriage between blacks in New Amsterdam. 1641 Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.1643 The New England Confederation of Plymouth, Massachusetts, ...
1662 Hereditary Slavery Virginia law decrees that children of black mothers “shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother.” 1662 Massachusetts reverses a ruling dating back to 1652, which allowed blacks to train in arms. New York, Connecticut, and New Hampshire pass similar...
New England Confederation Agreement strengthens fugitive slave acts in the colonies. This would serve as a legal precedent for fugitive slave laws. 1644 First recorded marriage of Blacks in the English colonies on Manhattan. 1645 First slave ship, the “Rainbowe,” is built in the colonies. It ...
The War on Drugs is a phrase used to refer to a government-led initiative in America that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by increasing and enforcing penalties for offenders. The movement started in the 1970s and is still evolving t
was born out of this frustration that “blacks in tech” are often the unmitigated invisible […] Apr 26 2011 Style Tiles Samantha Warren publishes a post to her blog introducing a technique she calls Style Tiles, a way to group web design patterns meaningfully during the client discovery and...
“The war destroyed the institution of slavery, ensured the survival of the union, and set in motion economic and political changes that laid the foundation for the modern nation,” wrote Eric Foner, the author of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877.“During Reconstruction, ...
December 24, 1866 - The Klu Klux Klan forms secretly to discourage blacks from voting, issuing in a brutal and shameful era of terror and crime amid southern states as civil rights for freed slaves emerged from the Civil War Era and made hesitant progress throughout the majority of the 20th...
August– Publicly opposed proposals to colonize American September blacks in Central America advocated by Senator Samuel S. Pomeroy of Kansas and Montgomery Blair, U.S. postmaster general.1 September After passing her qualifying examinations, Doug-lass’s daughter Rosetta began teaching in Salem, New...