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...
Passages of a people ; Reconsidering the history of blacks in America as a series of migrations instead of simple timelineKenneth J Cooper
February 1, 1960:Four African American college students in Greensboro,North Carolinarefuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. The Greensboro Four—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil—were inspired by the nonviolent protest ofGa...
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...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
The 1960s saw John F. Kennedy elected to the White House and gains in civil rights before America splintered amid cultural divisions and Vietnam War protests.
1971: Melba Tolliver is fired from the ABC affiliate in New York for wearing an Afro while covering Tricia Nixon’s wedding. Jheri curl – Super Curl ad, circa 1980’s. 1977: The Jheri curl explodes on the black hair scene. Billed as a curly perm for blacks, the ultra moist hairstyle...
1954 Life in America in 1954: average family income is around $4000 a year…two-bedroom house in the suburbs is around $16,000 and to furnish it costs around $1500 which would include a seventeen-inch Magnavox TV…food for a family of four costs around $15 a week…a brand new Ford ...