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  A Chronological History of Africans in 
America, in Africa and in the Diaspora,
1600 BCE to 1980 AD*
 


 

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INDEX A to F

A
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
B
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
Boris 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
C
“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
Crazy 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
D
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
E
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
F
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


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