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

  


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INDEX G to N

G
Gabon, 1960, 1976, 1979
Gagarin, Yuri, 1961
Gairy, Eric, 1972, 1974, 1975,
     1976
Galatia, 278 BCE
Galerius, 311
Gambia, 1965, 1976, 1980
Gamtoos River, 1770
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 1893, 1906
Gans, Joe, 1874, 1909
Garfield, James, Pres., 1871,
     1875, 1880,  1881
Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815,
     1835, 1839, 1853, 1865
Garrett, Jimmy, 1975
Garrido, Juan, 1519
Garrison, Wiliam Lloyd, 1806,
     1831, 1835, 1879
Garner, Erroll, 1921
Garvey, Marcus, 1887, 1907,
     1910, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919,
     1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925,
     1926, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1938,
     1939, 1940
Garvin, Charles, Dr., 1919
Gates, Horatio, 1775
Gauls, 390 BCE, 278 BCE,
     225 BCE
Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1926, 1932
Gazankulu Bantustan, 1976
Geffard, Fabre, Gen., 1864
General Education Board, 1903,
     1944
Genetics, 1976
Genocide in U.S., 1951
Genseric, 429
George III, 1760
Georgia, 1733, 1735, 1798, 1829,
     1850, 1862, 1864, 1865, 1867,
     1869, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1919,
     1973
German Interregnum, 1250
Germans in Antiquity, 102 BCE
Germany (Germans), 919, 1077,
     1517, 1520, 1527, 1634, 1648,
     1701, 1865, 1871, 1878, 1888,
     1890, 1898, 1905, 1915, 1934,
     1936, 1938, 1944
Gettysburg, Battle of, 1863
Ghana, 300,  800, 1250, 1645,
     1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962,
     1963, 1965, 1976, 1979, 1980
   Cocoa, 1900
   Gold, 1965
   Kingdom  of, 300, 800, 1250
   National Assembly of, 1957
   Railway, 1965
   Slavery, 1645, 1688
Ghetto Acts, 1946
Gibbs, Mifflin W., (1975)
Gibraltar, 1704
Gibson, Althea, 1957
Gibson, James M., 1969
Gifford, Bernard R., Dr., 1973
Gillespie, John Birks “Dizzy,” 1917
Gilmore, Patrick S., 1872
Gilpin, Charles S., 1878, 1920,
    1930
Giotto, 1266
Giovanni, Nikki, 1943
Glenn, John, Jr., 1961, 1962
Godfrey of Bouillon, 1099
God that Failed, The, 1935
Gold, South Africa, 1886
“Gold Rush,” 1849
Golden Gate International Exposi-
     tion, 1939
Gomillion, Charles G., 1957
Gompers, Samuel, 1917
Goodman, Andrew, 1964
“Good Neighbor Policy,” 1933
Gordon, C.W. “Chinese,” 1885
Gordon, George W., 1865
Gorée Island, 1444
   (see also Slavery)
Goths, 247, 251, 276, 321, 337,
      553
Government, Blacks in, 1866,
     1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872,
     1873, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1881,
     1889, 1895, 1948, 1949, 1950,
     1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958,
     1961, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972,
     1974, 1975
Grachus, Gaius, 212 BCE
Graham, Shirley L.
   (see DuBois, Shirley G., Mrs.)
Grambling State University, 1901
Grand Central Theatre (Cleve-
     land), 1912
“Grandfather Clause,” 1915
Granger, Gen., 1865
Granicus, Battle of, 334 BCE
Grant, Ulysses S., Pres., 1864,
     1869, 1871
Grant, William S., 1896
Gravely, Samuel L., Capt., 1962,
     1971
Great Depression, 1929
Great Khan, 1369
Great Mongul, 1556, 1605, 1628,
     1658, 1707
Great Plague, 164, 590, 1348
Great Schism, 1378, 1417
Great Steel Strike, 1919
Great Wall of China, 214 BCE
Greeks, 776 BCE, 735 BCE,
     490 BCE, 480 BCE
Greeley, Horace, 1841
Green, Ernest, 1958
“Green Pastures,” 1939
Green, S. Clayton, 1902
Green, Shields, 1859
Greener, Richard T., 1873
Greer, Julia L., 1975
Gregory, Dick, 1968
Gregory the Great, Pope, 590
Grenada, 1763, 1865, 1972,
     1974, 1975, 1976, 1977
Grenada United Labor Party,
     1974
Grier, Pam, 1972
Griffith, D.W., 1910, 1913, 1915,
     1918, 1922
Griggs, Sutton, 1899
Griqualand East, 1867
Guadeloupe, 1801
Guantánamo, 1958, 1977
   (see also Cuba)
Guatemala, 1839, 1974, 1975
Guerrero, Vincente, 1820-1821
Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 1967
Guggenheim, Simon, Foundation,
     1925
Guillermo, Pedro, 1888
Guiana, French
   (see French Guiana)
Guinea, 1956, 1958, 1979, 1980
   Peace Corps, 1961
   People’s Army, 1959
   Republic of, 1973
   (see also Sékou Touré)
Guinea-Bissau, 1959, 1961, 1963,
     1965, 1973,  1974, 1980
   Liberation Fighters, 1965
Guiscard, Robert, 1082
Gumede, J.T., 1927
Gutenberg, Johann, 1450
Guyana (British Guiana), 1831,
     1841, 1842, 1865, 1858, 1865,
     1868, 1895, 1917, 1943, 1945,
     1950, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1974,
     1975, 1976, 1978, 1979
   Agricultural Movement, 1895
   Bauxite, 1868, 1974
   Dutch in, 1598
   Labor Union, 1919
   Pan-Boilers, 1882
   Politics, 1950, 1964
   Riots, 1869, 1889
   University of, 1962
Gyges, 664 BCE
H
Haarlem, Dutch Trading Ship,
     1647
Hadrian, 117
Haiti, 1743, 1779, 1791, 1802,
     1803, 1816, 1829, 1844, 1862,
     1863, 1864, 1869, 1904, 1913,
     1915, 1922, 1968, (1971),
     1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978
   Cuba, 1902
   Liberation of, 1922
   U.S. in, 1890, 1934
Hal Roach Comedies, 1930
Hale, John P., 1852
Hall, Charles, Lt., 1943
Hall, James C., 1969
Hall, Prince, 1787
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 1918, 1962,
     1964, 1977
Hamilton, Alexander, 1804
Hammerskjold, Dag, 1961, 1980
Hammon, Jupiter, 1760, 1761
Hampton Institute, 1839, 1861,
     1868, 1882, 1889, 1924
   (see also Education)
Han Dynasty, 100 BCE, 220 AD
Hand, Pamela, 1868
Handy, W.C., 1873, 1912, 1914,
     1977
Hannibal, 218 BCE, 216 BCE,
     202 BCE
Hannibal, Ivan, (1975)
Hanno, 470 BCE
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1959, 1965
Harding, Warren G., Pres., 1921,
     1923
Harlem, 1903, 1907, 1914, 1927,
     1973
   Black Businesses in, 1921
   Black Population, 1920
   Death Rate, 1923
   Community Theatre Organiza-
     tion, 1924
   Renaissance, 1920
     (see also New York)
Harmon, William E., Foundation,
         1926
Harney, Michael C., 1884
Haroun-al-Raschid, 786
Harpe Brothers, the, (1962)
Harper, Frances, 1854
Harper’s Ferry, 1859
Harris, Patricia Roberts, 1976
Harris Teachers College, 1857
Harrison, Benjamin, Pres., 1889,
     1892
Harrison, Hubert, 1927
Harrison, Richard B., 1930
Harrison, William Henry, 1841
Harvard University, 1636, 1892,
     1922, 1974, 1975
Black Graduates, 1873, 1896
Hastie, William H., 1937, 1943,
     1946, 1949
Hatcher, Andrew, 1960
Hatcher, Richard C., 1967
Hatshepsut, 1526 BCE
Haverly, Jack, 1881
Hawaii, 1898
Hawkins, John, Gen., 1965
Hawkins, John, Sir, 1562
Hawkins, William, 1530
Hay, Byron Philip, 1975
Hayes, Rutherford B., Pres., 1877
Hayden, Robert, 1913
Hayes, Roland, 1887
Hayes-Tilden Compromise, 1877
Hayne, Henry E., 1873
Heads of a Negro,” (1890)
Healy, James Augustine, 1830,
     1854, 1875, 1900
Healy, Patrick Francis, 1865, 1874
Heard, Nathan C., 1973
Heart Surgery, 1893
Heath, Gordon, 1959
Hegira of Muhammad, 622
Hehe People, 1891
   (see also Tanzania)
Henderson, Alice M., 1974
Henderson, Donald M., 1966
Henderson, Fletcher, 1924, 1952
Henry IV, 1077
Henry VIII, 1509, 1530, 1547
Henry the Fowler, 919
Henry the Navigator, 1441, 1444
Hensley, Howard D., 1972
Henson, Matthew A., 1866, 1909
Hepburn, Philip, 1953
Heraclea, 280 BCE
Heraclius, 610, 627, 636
Here I Stand, 1976
Hersey, 1318
Herndon, Angelo, 1932
Herndon, Calvin C., 1966
Herndon, Milton, 1936
Herodotus, 484 BCE, 438 BCE,
     429 BCE
Herskovits, Melville, 1940
Heureaux, Ulises, 1888
Heyn, Piet, 1626
Hicks, Milton Leon, 1973
Hill, Oliver, W., 1948
Hill, David
   (see Washington, E.E., Rabbi)
Hill, Robert B., 1971
Himes, Chester, 1909, 1945
Hippocrates, 400 BCE
Hiroshima, 1945
Hispaniola, Africans in, 1560,
     1562
Hitler, Adolph, 1934, 1938
H.M.S. Lucitania, 1915, 1917
H.M.S. Neptune, 1818
H.M.S. Titanic, 1912
Hodgson, Frederick, Sir, 1900
Holland (Dutch), 1596, 1609,
     1619, 1625, 1626, 1630, 1632,
     1647, 1652, 1672, 1717, 1722,
     1770, 1801, 1803, 1806, 1831,
     1974, 1975, 1979
Holliday, Billie, 1938, 1959
Holmes, Hamilton, 1961
Holsinger, Joseph, 1978
Holt, George W., 1925
Honduras, 1890, 1912, 1974, 
     1975
Honey Springs, Battle, of 1863
Honorius, 395
Hoover, Herbert, Pres., 1929
Hoover, J. Edgar, 1980
Horne, Lena, 1917, 1940, 1943,
     1957, 1969
Horse, John, Chief, 1837
Horses in Egypt, 1600 BCE
Horton, George, 1829
Horus, 390
Hospitals, Number of Beds in U.S.,
    1928
Hot Comb, 1920
House Un-American Activities
     Commission (HUAC), 1924
House of Israel, 1979
House of Wills (Cleveland), 1920
Housing Segregation Laws, 1912
   (see also Discrimination)
Houston-Tillotson University, 1952
Howard, Ruth, 1934
Howard University, 1867, 1871,
     1872, 1924,  1925, 1926,
     1976
HUD (Dept. of Housing and Urban
     Development), 1976
Hughes, Langston, 1902, 1926,
     1930, 1935
Hulagu Khan, 1258
Huns, 425
Hunt, Nelson, 1965
Hunter, Charlayne, 1961
Hunter, David, Gen., 1862
Hunter, Jane Edna, 1905, 1911,
     1919
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1937
Huss, John, 1398, 1415
Hussites, 1420, 1431, 1436
Hutchinson, Barbara, 1974
Hutton, Bobby, 1968
Hyksos, 1600 BCE
Hystaspes, 521 BCE
I
“If We Must Die,” 1910
Illinois, 1847, 1959, 1975, 1979
   (see also Chicago, Race Riots,
     Protest Demonstrations)
   University of, 1868
Illiteracy (see Literacy)
Illyria, 225 BCE
Imbumba Yama Afrika, 1882
Imhotep, 400 BCE
Immigration, East Indians to the
     West Indies, 1834, 1838, 1841,
     1843, 1858, 1917
   to South Africa, 1860
   West Indians to U.S., 1918, 1919
Immigration Act, U.S., 1924
Imperialism, 1846, 1854, 1860,
     1880, 1884,  1900, 1917,
     1973
Imperium in Imperio, 1899
Income (see Black GNP)
Indentured Servitude, 1626
   Emigration, Prohibition of East
     Indian, 1885
   in South Africa, 1860
“Independence, Black Declaration
      of,” 1970
Independent Negro Party, 1907,
     1912
Indiana, North Carolina Blacks
     Migrate to, 1879
Indian Passive Resistance Cam-
     paign in South Africa, 1946
Indians (Native Americans), 1511,
     1516, 1557, 1566, 1819, 1837,
     1838, 1839, 1850, 1867, 1897
   Reservations, 1887
   Slaves, 1557
   War with, 1790, 1876, 1895,
     1897
Indo-Scythians, 149 BCE
Industrial Workers of the World
   (see IWW)
Ingram, Rex, 1936, 1944
Innis, Roy, 1968
Insurance Companies, Black,
     1929, 1939
Internal Security Act, 1924
Inter-Racial Marriages, 1879,
     1887, 1948
International Council of the
      Women of the Dark Races,
     1922
International League of Darker
      People, 1919
International Migration Society,
      1894
International Monetary Fund
      (IMF), 1974
International Socialist League,
     1915
International Women’s Day, 1973
International Commerce Commis-
     sion, 1961
Inventions by Africans, 1846,
     1876, 1881, 1876, 1884, 1885,
     1887, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896,
     1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902,
     1905, 1912, 1920
Invisible Man, The, 1952
Iran, 1974, 1978
Iraq, 1976, 1979
Ireland, 1690
   Black Sea-Rovers, (1975)
Isabella, Queen, 1502, 1510
Isandhlwana, Battle of, 1879
Islam, 1071, 1480, 1804, 1980
   Nation of, 1897, 1934, 1960,
     1962
   in Bermuda, 1975
Israel, 1975, 1976, 1980
Lost Ten Tribes, 722 BCE
Ita, Pieter, 1626
Italians, 89 BCE
Italy, 1862, 1912, 1922
   Fascists (see Fascism)
   Rome, 1871
   War with Ethiopia, 1885, 1896,
     1935
Ivan III, 1480
Ivan the Terrible, 1547
Ivonet, Pedro, 1907, 1912
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), 1960,
     1975
IWW (Industrial Workers of the
     World), African Membership,
     1919, 1925
J
Jack, Hulan, 1953
Jackson, Andrew, Pres., 1814,
     1815, 1819, 1829
Jackson, Emory, 1931
Jackson, George, 1972, 1975
Jackson, Jesse, 1941
Jackson, Leonard, 1973
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911
Jackson, Saunders, 1848
Jackson State College, 1877,
     1970
Jacobin Republic, 1794
Jacobin Revolution, 1791
Jacquerie
   (see France, Peasant Revolt)
Jagan, Cheddi, 1950, 1978
Jamaica, 1663, 1766, 1773,
     1776, 1831, 1914, 1962, 1968,
     1972, 1974, 1976, 1977
   Banana Exporting, 1869
   Crown Colony Government,
     1865
   Cuba, 1902
   English Colonize, 1655
   Labor Riots, 1937
   Maroons, 1690, 1734, 1739
   Revolts, 1745, 1760, 1762,
     1769, 1865
James I, 1603, 1618
James II, 1688
James, C.L.R., 1791, 1948
James, Daniel “Chappie,” Gen.,
     1975
James, Olga, 1954
Jamestown, 1619
Japan, 1638, 1910, 1917, 1923,
     1924, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1976
   China, 1894, 1937
   Feudalism, 1871
   Open Door Policy, 1865
   Russia, 1904
Jarboro, Caterina, 1933
Java, 1596
Jazz “Migration,” 1917
Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1930
Jefferson, Thomas, Pres., 1785,
     1798, 1801, 1826
Jeffries, Jim, 1910
Jehan, Shah, 1628
Jehangir, 1605
“Jelly Roll Blues,” 1915
Jengis Khan, 1214, 1218, 1227
Jenne, 765
Jerusalem, 586 BCE, 638, 1099,
     1187
Jesuits, 1539, 1549, 1556, 1767
Jesus of Nazareth, 4 BCE
Jet Magazine, 1918
Jihad, Islamic, 1851
“Jim Crow,”  1828, 1881, 1948,
     1960
Joan of Arc, 1429
“Jobs for Negroes” Campaign,
     1929
Jockeys, Black, 1875
John III, 1683
John Birch Society, 1978
Johnson, Andrew, Pres., 1865
Johnson, Arlene, 1933
Johnson, Charles S., 1923, 1930,
     1952
Johnson, Helen Armstead, 1975
Johnson, Jack, 1878, 1910, 1946
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871,
     1873, 1900, 1912
Johnson, John H., 1918
Johnson, J. Rosamund, 1873,
     1900
Johnson, L.B., Pres., 1960, 1963,
     1965, 1967
Johnson, Noble, 1932
Johnson, Paul, Lt. Gov., 1962
Johnson, Robert, 1911
Johnson, Willie, 1884
Johnston, Harry, 1887, 1890
Jonathan, Leabua, 1979
Jones, A. William, 1928
Jones, Absalom, 1787
Jones, Albert, 1858
Jones, Clare, 1975
Jones, James Earl, 1969, 1970
Jones, Jim, 1978, 1979
Jones, LeRoi (see Baraka, Amiri)
Jones, Quincy, 1967
Jones, Sissiertta, 1892
“Jonestown and the CIA,” 1978
Joplin, Scott, 1899, 1915, 1975
Josiah, 608 BCE
Journal of Negro History, 1922
Journalism, Black, 1843, 1847,
     1856
   (see also Newspapers, Journals)
Juárez, Benito, 1861, 1872
Jubilee Singers (see Fisk Academy
     and Normal School)
Juilliard School of Music, 1923
Judges, Black, 1937, 1939, 1945,
     1964, 1966
Julian the Apostate, 361
Julian, Percy, 1936, 1963
Jumbe, Aboud, 1980
“June ‘Teenth,” 1865
Just, Ernest E., 1915
Justice Department, Black
     Peonage, 1907
   (see also Commission on
     Slavery)
Justinian,  527, 529, 565
K
“Kaffir War,” 1770
Kanishka, 150
Kansas, 1880, 1898, 1899, 1903,
     1917, 1925, 1970
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Karamu House, 1915
Karenga, Maulana, 1966
   Kawaida Black Value System,
     1966
  Kwanzaa, 1966
Karugu, James, 1980
Kaufman, Irving, 1961
Kaunda, Kenneth, Pres., 1924,
     1980
Kavadh II, 628
Keita, Mobido, 1915
Kellor, Frances, 1905
Kelly, George, 1897
Kelly, Jim, 1973
Kemal, Mustafa, 1922
Kennedy, J.F., Pres., 1960, 1961,
     1962, 1963, 1979
Kent State Normal School (Univer-
     sity), 1915, 1965, 1966, 1968,
     1970, 1973
Kentucky, 1956, 1973
   Segregation, 1874
Kentucky Derby, 1875
Kentucky State College, 1886
Kenya, 1000 BCE, 1891, 1963,
       1966, 1967, 1976, 1980
   Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952
Kenya African National Union
      (KANU), 1979
Kenya People’s Union, 1979
Kenyatta, Jomo, Pres., 1891,
     1979
Khama, Seretse, Sir, 1980
Khartoum, 1885
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 1978
Khrushchev, Nikita J., 1958
Kiau-Chau (China), 1898
Killens, John O., 1916
Kilwa, 1505
Kin Empire, 1138, 1234
“King Alfred Plan, The,” 1924
King, Coretta Scott, 1975
King, Martin Luther, Jr., Rev.,
     1929, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958,
     1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966,
     1968, 1975
Kissinger, Henry, 1974, 1976,
     1977
Kiswahili, 1915, 1967, 1979
Kitt, Eartha, 1958, 1968
Knights of Labor, 1886
Knights of the Pythias, 1870
Knoetze, Kallie, 1979
Knox College, 1868
Knoxville College, 1875
Koen, Charles, Rev., 1975
Kongo (see Congo) Korea, 1910
Korean Conflict, 1950
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, 1798
Kotane, Moses, 1946, 1955, 1975
Kountche, Seynmi, Pres., 1980
Kraus, Allison, 1970
Krum of Bulgaria,   811
Krussa, Ali, (1975)
Kublai  Khan, 1251, 1260, 1269,
     1280, 1292
Ku Klux Klan, 1865, 1867, 1870,
     1914, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924,
     1975
Kush, 670 BCE, 593 BCE,
     23 BCE,  20 BCE, 1973
Kwayana, Eusi, 1979
KwaZulu Bantustan, 1976, 1979
L
la Amistad, 1839
Ladner, Joyce, 1943
Lafayette Stock Company
    (Harlem), 1914
Lafitte, Jean, 1817
Lambert, William, 1842
Land Grant Colleges (Universities),
    1847, 1862, 1873, 1886, 1887,
    1890, 1896, 1897
Lane College, 1882
Lane Seminary, 1834
Laney, Lucy Craft, 1854
Langston, John Mercer, 1834,
     1853, 1855
La Negrita, (1980)
Langston University, 1897, 1929
Langalibalele, 1873
Lantern or Lamp, 1884
Lao Tse, 550 BCE
“Lapjacket” Contests, 1877
   (see also Black Cowboys)
Lara, Lucio, 1979
“La revue nègre,” 1925
Lateef, Yusef, 1975
Latimer, George, 1842
Latimer, Lewis, 1876, 1881
Latin America, 1821, 1823,
     1840, 1846, 1904, 1918, 1940,
     1960, 1974, 1975
Latino, Juan, 1546, 1557, 1573
Latvian Shipping Co., 1978
Lautier, Louis, 1956
Lawn Sprinkler, 1897
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917
Laws Affecting Black Americans,
     1641, 1655, 1662, 1664, 1667,
     1685, 1695, 1735, 1777, 1778,
     1787, 1793, 1798, 1804, 1808,
     1820, 1825, 1827, 1829, 1830,
     1831, 1833, 1843, 1845, 1849,
     1850, 1853, 1854, 1857, 1860,
     1861, 1862, 1865, 1866, 1867,
     1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872,
     1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1883,
     1884, 1891, 1894, 1896, 1897,
     1898, 1906, 1912, 1915, 1917,
     1922, 1924, 1925, 1938, 1941,
     1944, 1948, 1957, 1963, 1964,
     1965, 1966
Laws, Sam, 1972
Lawson, John, 1864
“Lead Belly” (see Leadbetter)
Leadbetter, Huddie, 1949
League for the Protection of
     Colored Women, 1905
League of Nations, 1929, 1930
Mandates, 1922, 1926
League of Struggle for Negro
     Rights, 1930
Leakey, Mary & L.S.B., 1959
“Learn Trades or Starve,” 1853
Leavenworth Federal Prison, 1975
Lebanon, 1979
Lebowa Bantustan, 1976
Le Clerc, François, 1554
Le Code Noir, 1685
   (see also Black Codes)
Lee, Canada, 1952
Lee, Fitzhugh, 1864
Lee, Robert E., 1862, 1864
   Arming of Slaves, 1865
Leeuwenhoek, 1632
Lemon Squeezer, 1896
l’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754
Legislative Union of Ireland &
      England, 1800
Legislatures, Blacks in State &
      Federal
   (see Black Reconstruction, Blacks
     in Politics)
Leidesdorff, William, (1809), 1841
Lemoyne College, 1869
Lend-Lease Agreement, 1941
Lenin Peace Prize, 1978
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 1917
Leo III, 795
Leonard Sofa Bed Co., 1902
Leopold I, 1830
Leopold II, 1876, 1884
Lepanto, Battle of, 1573
Les Cenelles, 1845
Lesotho, 1966, 1979, 1980
Let Me Live, 1933
Let My People Go, 1829, 1834,
     1850, 1865,  1867, 1869
Lewis, Anthony, 1892
Lewis, Gilbert, 1973
Lewis, John, 1958
Lewis, Lyda, 1973
Lewis, Oliver, 1875
Lewis, William H., 1892, 1911,
     1923
Lewis & Clark, 1804
Liberator, The,
   (see Garrison, Wm. L.)
Liberia, 470 BCE, 1809, 1821,
     1826, 1847, 1862, 1878, 1923,
     1943, 1965, 1979
   British and French in, 1893
Liberia College, 1881, 1882
   (see also Blyden, E.W.)
Liberty Party, 1839, 1840, 1843,
     1844, 1847
Liberty Photoplays, Inc., 1929
Liberty University, 1926
Libya, 1912, 1952, 1965, 1976,
     1979, 1980
Life and Writings of Frederick
     Douglass, 1876
Life Expectancy, Blacks, 1910,
     1928
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” 1873,
     1900
Lima, José Lezama, 1976
Limann, Hilla, 1979
Lincoln, Abby, 1968
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809, 1860,
     1861, 1862, 1864, (1975)
   Assassination, 1865
   Black Veterans, 1865
   Deportation of Blacks, 1862
   Emancipation Proclamation,
     1863
   “Eye-for-an-Eye Order,” 1863
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Lincoln Memorial, 1922
Lincoln University
   Missouri, 1866
   Pennsylvania, 1854
Lind, Jenny, 1850
Lisle, George, 1782
Little Big Horn, Battle of the,
     1876
Liuzzo, Viola, 1965
Livingston College, 1879
Livingston, David, 1854
Lobengula, 1887, 1893
Lobotomy, 1935
Locke, Alain L., 1886, 1907, 1925
Lockhart, Calvin, 1970
Lodge Bill, the, 1891
Lombards, 579
Lome Treaty, 1975
Loncq, Hendrick, 1626
Long, Amos E., 1898
Long, Jefferson, P., 1869
Long Struggle for Black Power,
     The, 1957
Looby, Z. Alexander, 1951, 1960
Lorraine Motel, 1975
Lord Dunmore, 1775
Lord Verulam
   (see Bacon, Francis)
Los Angeles, 1750, 1781, 1965,
     1973
   Brotherhood Crusade, 1951
Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, 722 BCE
Loudin, Frederick, 1875
   Jubilee Singers, 1875
Louis, Joe, 1914, 1935, 1936,
     1938
Louis the Pious, 843
Louis IX, 1244, 1250, 1270
Louis XIV, 1643, 1701
Louis XVI, 1774, 1791, 1793
Louis XVIII, 1814
Louisiana, 1811, 1815, 1830,
     1846, 1850, 1860, 1862, 1863,
     1864, 1865, 1867, 1870, 1873,
     1874, 1875, 1880, 1881, 1885,
     1890, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1901,
     1917, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1935,
     1953,1960, 1962, 1972
   Blacks in Government, 1868,
     1872
   White Rule, 1876
Louisiana Purchase, 1802, 1820
Louisiana State University, 1860
l’Ouverture, Toussaint, 1743, 1791,
     1802, 1803
   (see also Haiti)
Love, John Lee, 1897
Love, Nat “Deadwood Dick,” 1868
Lowry, Henry Berry, (1979)
Lubin, Sigmund, 1911, 1914
Lucitania (see H.M.S. Lucitania)
Lucy, Autherine J., 1956
Lumumba, Patrice, 1961
Lunceford, Jimmy, 1902, 1947
Lunda Empire, 1648, 1750
  (see also Angola)
Lusaka Agreement, 1974
Lusaka Declaration of Unity, 1974
Luther, Martin, 1517, 1546
Lutuli, Albert J., Chief, 1952,
     1955, 1961, 1967
Lynch, John R., 1884
Lynch, Willie, 1712
Lynchings, 1882, 1883, 1884,
     1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1891,
     1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896,
     1897, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1911,
     1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921,
     1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926,
     1927, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1937,
     1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945,
     1952, 1955, 1959
M
Mabley, Jackie “Moms,” 1923
Macedonia, 359 BCE, 336 BCE,
     200-197 BCE
Maceo, Antonio, 1876, 1895-1898,
    1895
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1512
Machel, Samora, Pres., 1974
Madagascar, 1947, 1960, 1965,
    1976
  Colonization of, 1641
  French in, 1947
Madison, James, Pres., 1809
Madrid, Treaty of, 1670
Magellan, 1519
Magna Charta, 1215, 1628
Maguire, Liam, 1974
Mahabane, Z.R., 1924, 1937
Mahdi, 1885
Majapahit, 1293
Maji Maji War, 1905
Majuba Hill, Battle of, 1881
Makanda, 1818
Make, Vusumzi, 1979
Makgatho, S.M., 1917
Malagasy Republic
   (see Madagascar)
Mahlangu, Solomon, 1979
Malan, Daniel F., 1953
Malawi, 1964, 1975, 1980
Malcolm X (see el-Shabazz,
     el-Hajj Malik)
Mali, 1230, 1450, 1915, 1980
Mallory, Mae, 1962
Malloum, General, 1975
Malone, Vivian, 1965
Malthus, Thomas, 1766
Manassas (see Bull Run)
Manchu Dynasty, 1644
Mandela, Nelson, 1943, 1961,
     1962, 1963, 1980
Mandingo, 1250
Mange, James, 1979
Mangu, Khan, 1251
Manhattan, Population Density,
     1914, 1925
   (see also New York)
Mani, 242, 277
Manichaeism, 242
Manifest Destiny, 1840, 1870
Manley, Michael, 1972, 1974,
     1977
Mann Act, 1915
Mann, Thomas, 1955
Mansa Musa, 1230, 1325, 1375
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431
Manumission (see Emancipation,
     Slavery)
Man Who Cried I Am, The,  1924
Maple Grove Cemetary (Ravenna,
     Oh.), 1975
Marathon, Battle of, 490 BCE
Marches on Washington, 1894,
     1941, 1963, 1968
Marie Antoinette, 1791, 1793
Marius, 102 BCE, 86 BCE
Marks, J.B., 1946
Maroons, 1519, 1655, 1685, 1690,
     1726-1728, 1734, 1739, 1780,
     1795
Marozia, 928
Marseilles, 1318
Marshall, Peter Murray, 1949
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908, 1961,
     1965
Martel, Charles, 721, 732, 751
Martin, d’Urville, 1973
Martinique, 1961, 1979
Martin, Richard, 1973
Marx, Karl, 1848, 1864, 1883,
     1890
Marxism, 1964, 1973, 1975,
     1980
Maryland, 1776, 1791, 1809
   Anti-Miscegenation Law, 1664
     (see also Miscegenation)
   Martial Law, 1963
   Slave Laws, 1695
   Univeristy of, 1935
Mason-Dixon Line, 1776
Mashonaland, 1890
Massachusetts, 1630, 1636, 1638,
     1723, 1773, 1777, 1783, 1822,
     1825, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831,
     1832, 1835, 1838, 1842, 1849,
     1851, 1854, 1863, 1865, 1866,
     1868, 1872, 1874, 1878, 1895,
     1896, 1901, 1923, 1960, 1963,
     1966, 1974
   Constitution, 1783
   House of Representatives, 1866
Massacres
   Bulhoek, 1921
   Burundi, 1971
   Carrollton, 1886
   Colfax, 1873
   Coushatta, 1875
   Fort Pillow, 1864
   Mueda, 1960
   Pidjiguiti, 1959
   Poison Spring, 1864
   Rosewood, 1923
   Sharpeville, 1960
   Turkish, 1875
   Windhoek, 1959
Matanzas (see Cuba)
Mather, Cotton, 1693
Mau Mau Rebellion
   (see Kenya)
Mauritania, 1960, 1976, 1980
Mauritius, 1976, 1979
Maximilian I, 1493
Maximilian, Emperor, 1864,
     1867
Mazrui, Ali, 1970
McAlester Prison, 1973
McCarran Act, 1924
McClellan, George B., 1862
McDaniel, Hattie, 1939
McGee, Vonetta, 1973
McHenry, Donald, 1979
McHenry, Jerry, 1979
McKay, Claude, 1890, 1911,
     1948
McKinley, William, Pres., 1896,
     1901
McKissick, Floyd, 1922, 1968
McNair, Barbara, 1968
Mecca, 627, 629
Medes, 606 BCE
Medhani Alem, Temple of,
     (1870)
Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1884
   (see also National Medical Asso-
     ciation)
Megiddo, Battle of, 608 BCE
Meharry Medical College, 1877
Melanin, 1970
Menahem, 738 BCE
Menéndez, Pedro, 1565
Mercenaries, 1972, 1974,
     1976, 1979
Meredith, James, H., 1962,
     1963, 1966
Meroë (see Kush)
Merrimac
   (see C.S.S. Merrimac)
Merritt Junior College, 1966
“Message to the Grassroots,”
     1963
Messenger, The, 1917
Methadone
   (see “Africa’s Costly Over-
     dose”)
Methodism, 1760
Metropolitan Opera Co., 1883,
     1951, 1966
Mexican Cession, 1848
“Mexican Zoot Suit Riots,”
     1943
Mexico, 1537, 1547, 1551,
     1605, 1607-1611, 1612,
     1622, 1646, 1665, 1767, 1793,
     1817, 1820-1821, 1824,
     1829, 1840, 1863, 1864, 1867,
     1914, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975,
     1976, 1978
Mfecane, 1819
Miami University (Ohio), 1809
Micheaux Film Corp., 1924,
Micheaux, Oscar, 1915, 1918,
     1926, 1930, 1932, 1933
Michelsen, Alfonso López, 1972
Michigan, 1837
Microscope, Invention of, 1632
Mifflin, James, 1864
Migration, U.S. Africans, 1879,
     1880, 1905, 1914, 1916, 1920,
     1923
Mihiragula, 528
Miles, Alexander, 1887
Miles College, 1907
Military Bands, 1792
Military Drill Club, 1861, 1929
Military, Women in, 1941, 1974
Miller, Dorie, 1941
Miller, Jeffrey, 1970
Miller, Kelly, 1927
Millikens Bend, Battle of, 1863
Miners, 1927
Mind of Primitive Man, The, 1911
Ming Dynasty, 1368, 1644
Ming, Robert, 1957
Mingus, Charlie, 1922, 1968
Mini, Vuyisile, 1964
Minor Society, 1810
Minstrels, 1842, 1843, 1865,
     1881, 1975
Minton’s Playhouse Jazz Ses-
     sions, 1941
Minutemen, 1775
Mirror for Liberty, 1838
Miscegenation, 1664, 1887, 1948
Mis-Education of the Negro, 1919
     1933
Mississippi, 1973, 1975
   Blacks in Government, 1870
   Constitutional Convention, 1890
   Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
Mississippi Freedom Project, 1964
Mississippi Plan, the, 1875, 1890
Missouri Compromise, 1820
Mitchell, Arthur L., 1934
Mitchell, Charlene, 1968
Mitchell, John N., 1972, 1980
Mitchell, P.R., 1857
Mithraism, 361-363
Mithridates the Great, 64 BCE
Mkultra (see Behavior Modifica-
     tion, Jonestown)
Mobile Bay, Battle of
   (see Alabama)
Modisane, Bloke, 1963
Moesia, 6
Mohawk Realty Company, 1900
Molineaux, Tom, 1784
Mollison, Irving C., 1945
Mondlane, Eduardo, 1920, 1969
Mongol Yuan Dynasty, 1368
Mongolians, 53 BCE, 1234, 1240,
     1241
“Mongoose Gang,” 1972, 1974
Moniz, Egas, 1935
Monk, Thelonius, 1942
“Monkey Trial”
   (see Scopes, John)
Monogram Films, 1937
Monomotapa, 1629
Monroe Doctrine, 1823, 1904
Monroe, James, Pres., 1817
Monroe, N.C., 1958, 1959, 1962
Montt, Efraín Ríos, 1974
Monterey Jazz Festivals, 1958
Montgomery, Wes, 1923
Montserrat, 1972
Moore, Archie, 1952
Moore, Lisa, 1972
Moore, Richard, 1980
Moorish American Science
     Temples, 1913, 1928
   (see also Ali, Noble Drew)
Moors (Saracens), 732
Mootoo, Leslie, 1978
Moravian Settlement, 1741
Morehouse College, 1867, 1869,
     1970
Morgan, Garrett A., 1920, 1923
Morgan, Ross J., Capt., (1890)
Morgan State College, 1867
Mormons, 1847
Morrill Land Grant College Act,
     1862, 1890
   (see also Land Grant Colleges)
Morris Brown College, 1881
Morocco, 1415, 1591, 1912,
     1924, 1962, 1976, 1979
Morrow, E.F., 1955
Morse, S.F.B., 1837
Morton, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll,”
    1915, 1923, 1938
Mossadegh, Muhammad, 1974
Moshoeshoe, 1824, 1851, 1858,
     1868
Motley, Constance Baker, 1966
   (see also NAACP)
Motley, Willard, 1912
Mott, Bob, 1903
Mound Bayou (Miss.), 1835, 1865,
     1914
Mozambique, 1729, 1960, 1961,
     1964, 1965, 1967, 1973, 1974,
     1975, 1979, 1980
MPLA (Popular Movement for the
      Liberation of Angola), 1956,
     1961, 1974, 1975, 1979
Mqhayi, S.E.K., 1897
Mtshali, Eric, 1975
Muawija, 661, 668, 675
Mueda Massacre
   (see Massacres)
Mugabe, Robert, Pres., 1979,
     1980
Muhammad, 570, 622, 623, 628,
      629, 632, 661
Muhammad, Elijah, The Honor-
     able, 1897, 1942, 1960, 1975
   (see also Nation of Islam)
Muhammad, Murtala, Gen., 1975
Muhammad, Nathaniel, 1975
Muhammad II, Sultan, 1481
Muhammad, Wallace D., 1975
Mulzac, Hugh, 1942
Munich Pact, 1938
Muse, Clarence, 1926, 1931
Museum of Black Theatre History,
     1975
Muslims (Moslems), 570, 622, 623,
     628, 629, 632, 636, 661, 711,
     732, 1071, 1804
   (see also Islam, Saracens)
Mussolini, 1922, 1935, 1943
Mutema, 1420 BCE
Mutual Improvement Society,
    1879
Mvemba, Nzinga, 1506
Mycale, Battle of, 479 BCE
Mylae, Battle of, 260 BCE
Mzilikazi, 1830, 1836, 1837,
    1887
N
NAACP, 1890, 1909, 1910, 1912,
     1913, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1922,
     1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1955,
     1958, 1961
   Haiti, 1922, 1925
   Legal Defence & Educational
     Fund, 1939
   National Anti-Lynching Con-
     ference, 1919
   Segregation, 1925, 1919, 1933,
     1934, 1951, 1962
   Springarn Medal Awards, 1914,
     1915
   Teachers’ Pay Differentials,
     1936
   U.N., 1947
Nagasaki, 1945
Namibia (South West Africa), 1914,
     1915, 1922, 1959, 1969, 1974,
     1975, 1976, 1979, 1980
Napoleon III, 1851, 1870
Natakamani, 20 BCE
Nation of Islam, 1897, 1930, 1932,
     1934, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1975
National Afro-American League,
     1890
National Alliance of Postal Workers,
     1913
National Anthem, Black, 1873,
     1900
National Anti-Slavery Standard,
     1840
National Association of Colored
     Women, 1896
National Association of Negro Busi-
     ness and Professional Women’s
     Clubs, 1935
National Association of Negro
     Musicians, 1919, 1968
National Baptist Convention, 1895,
     1915
National Benefit Insurance Com-
     pany, 1898
National Black Independent Poli-
     tical Party (NBIPP), 1980
National Black Political Assembly,
     1972, 1975
National Black Political Convention,
     1972, 1973, 1980
National Black United Fund, 1974
National Civil War Centennial
     Commission, 1961
National Committee of Black
     Churchmen, 1970
National Convention of Colored
     Men, 1864
National Convention of Colored
     People, 1883
National Council of Churches,
     1980
National Council of Colored Peo-
     ple, 1853
National Council of Negro Women,
     1935
National Era, 1847
National Ethiopian Art Theatre
     School, 1924
National Fiction Award, 1952
National Independent League,
     1912
National Institute of Nental Health
     (NIMH), 1975
National Insurance Association,
     1921
National League of Cities, 1973
National Liberation League, 1935
National Medical Association,
     1895
National Negro Bankers Associa-
     tion, 1924, 1940
National Negro Baseball League,
     1920
National Negro Business League,
     1900, 1907, 1914, 1924
National Negro Congress, 1936
National Negro Finance Corpor-
     ation, 1924
National Negro Retail Merchants
     Association, 1913
National Negro Opera Company,
     1942
National Newspaper Publishers
     Association, 1940
National Park, George Washington
     Carver, 1951
National Student Coalition against
     Racism, 1975
National Urban League, 1911,
     1925, 1927
National Women’s Suffrage Conven-
     tion, 1852
Native Americans, 1973
   (see also Indians, Amerindians)
Navigation Act, 1650, 1849
Navy, U.S., Black Officers, 1942,
     1973
   Women, 1944
Ndebele Bantustan, 1976
   Ndebele People, 1893
Neau, Elias, 1704
Nebraska, 1854, 1867, 1877, 1879,
     1914, 1919
   Status of Africans, 1879
   Suffrage, 1867
Nebuchadnezzar II, 604 BCE,
      586 BCE
Necho of Egypt, 608 BCE, 604 BCE
Négritude, 1913
Negro, The, 1915
“Negro Artist and the Racial Moun-
     tain, The,” 1926
Negro Benson, 1723
Negro, Capitalization of “n” in,
     1930
Negro Emigration Convention,
      1854
Negro Family in the U.S., The,
     1939
Negro Fellowship League, 1908
“Negro History Week,” 1926
Negro Seamen, (1950), (1975)
“Negro School House,” 1743
Negro Society for Historical Re-
     search, 1911
“Negro Tom” (see Fuller, Tom)
Nell, William C., 1851, 1855
Neptune (see H.M.S. Neptune)
Nero, 54, 64, 68
Nerva, 96
Nestorian Church, 483
Netherlands, Revolt in, 1567
   (see also Holland)
Neto, Agostinho, Pres., 1974,
     1979
Nevis, 1493, 1630, 1974
Newby, William H., 1856
“New Deal,” 1933
New England Anti-Slavery Soci-
     ety,  1832
New England Freedom Associ-
     ation,  1842
New England Slave Trade, 1638
New Guinea, (1820)
New Jersey, 1777, 1880, 1887,
     1926, 1927,  1934, 1962, 1964
New Jewel Movement, 1974
   (see also Grenada)
“New Left,” 1973
New Mexico, 1538, 1539
New Orleans, 1800, 1815, 1820,
     1841, 1853, 1862, 1863, 1865,
     1866, 1868, 1870, 1881, 1884,
     1891, 1893, 1896, 1900, 1904,
     1911, 1913, 1917, 1935, 1957,
     1962, (1975)
   Congo Square, 1885
   Storyville, 1897, 1917
Newspapers, Journals, Number of
     Black, 1898
   Advance, 1877
   Advance, The (Missouri), 1882
   Advance, The (Virginia), 1893
   Advance, The (Delaware), 1899
   Advocate, The, 1891
   Africa Times and Orient Review,
     1912
   Afro-American (Ohio), 1882
   Afro-American (Penn.), 1892
   Afro-American (Maryland), 1892
   Afro-American (Minn.), 1899
   Afro-American Citizen, 1899
   Afro-American Mouthpiece,
     1899
   Afro-American Sentinel, 1893
   Afro-Independent, 1888
   Age, 1887
   American Citizen (Kansas), 1887
   American Citizen (Maryland),
     1879
   American Eagle, 1894
   American Ethiopia, 1903
   American Guide, 1889
   American Press, 1888
   American Problem, 1905
   American Sentinel, 1880
   Amsterdam News, 1909
   Anglo-African, The, 1843
   Appeal, 1885
   Ardmore Sun, 1901
   Argus, 1890
   Arkansas Appreciator, 1896
   Arkansas Baptist Flashlight,
     1935
   Arkansas Dispatch, 1880
   Arkansas Freeman, 1869
   Arkansas Herald, 1882
   Arkansas State Press, 1941
   Arkansas Survey, 1923
   Arkansas Survey Journal,
     1934
   Arkansas World, 1940
   Athens Blade, 1879
   Atlanta Age, 1898
   Atlanta Daily World, 1928
   Augusta Union, 1889
   Avalanche, 1891
   Banner, 1881
   Birmingham Review, 1933
   Birmingham World, 1931
   Black Dispatch, 1914
   Black Republican, 1865
   Black World (Negro Digest),
     1918
   Blade, 1894
   Broadax, 1899
   Broad Axe, 1896
   Boston Courant, 1890
   Brotherland, 1887
   Buckeye Review, 1938
   Buffalo Criterion, 1934
   Buffalo Star, 1932
   Bulletin, 1879
   Cairo Gazette, The, 1882
   California Eagle, 1879
   California Voice, 1919
   Call (Kansas), 1919
   Call & Post, 1920
   Cambridge Mirror, 1906
   Capitol, 1894
   Caret, 1895
   Carolina Enterprise, 1881
   Carolina Tribune, 1926
   Carolinian, 1920
   Charlestown Journal, 1866
   Chicago Bee, 1909
   Chicago Defender, 1870, 1905,
     1925
   Chicago Whip, 1919
   Chicago World, 1900
   Christian Herald, The, 1843
   Chronicle, 1916
   Chronometer, 1898
   Church Organ, 1893
   City Times, 1898
   Clarion, 1921
   Cleveland Advocate, 1915
   Cleveland Guide, 1931
   Cleveland Herald, 1928
  Clipper (Georgia), 1888
   Clipper (Illinois), 1885
   Color, 1943
   Colored Alabamian, 1907
   Colored American, The (Geor-
      gia), 1843, 1865
   Colored American, The (New
      York), 1837
   Colored American, The (Texas),
      1920
   Colored American, The (Wash.,
      D.C.), 1893
   Colored Citizen (Florida), 1912
   Colored Citizen (Kansas), 1878
   Colored Citizen (Ohio), 1843,
      1863
   Colored Man’s Journal, The, 1843
   Colored Patriot, 1882
   Colored Tennessean, 1866
   Colored World, 1883
   Colored Statesman, 1894
   Columbus Messenger, 1887
   Columbus Voice, 1883
   Commoner, 1875
   Consevator, 1878
   Contributor, 1883
   Courier, 1893
  Crisis, The, 1910, 1914, 1918,
     1920, 1923, 1929, 1934
   Criterion, 1942
   Crystal, 1898
   Daily Bulletin, 1941
   Daily Express, 1942
   Daily Search Light, 1905
   Daily Times, 1922
   Dallas Express, 1893
   Dayton Forum, 1913
   Defender (Penn.), 1897
   Defender (Tenn.), 1917
   Delaware Twilight, 1886
   Delta News, 1894
   Demonsthenian Shield, The, 1843
   Detroit Contender, 1920
   Detroit Informer, 1897
   Detroit Tribune, 1922
   Disfranchised American, The,
     1843
   Ebony, 1918
   Echo (Arkansas), 1889
   Echo (Georgia), 1870
   Echo (Texas), 1893
   Elevator, 1865
   Emancipator, 1917
   Enterprise (Alabama), 1898
   Enterprise (Georgia), 1903
   Enterprise (Illinois), 1918
   Enterprise (Nebraska), 1893
   Enterprise (Virginia), 1908
   Ethiopian World, 1917
   Evening Recorder, 1893
   Excelsior, The, 1843
   Fair Play, 1898
   Farmer, The, 1843
   Fellowship Herald, 1915
   Ferret & Journal of the Lodge,
     1891
   Flashlight Herald, 1931
   Florida Sentinel, 1887
   Forum, 1894
   Free Lance, 1895
   Free Press, 1868
   Free Speech, 1888
   Freedom’s Journal, 1827
   Freedomways, 1906
   Freeman’s Chronicle, 1873
   Gazette (N. Carolina), 1883
   Gazette (Ohio), 1863, 1883
   Gary American, 1925
   Georgia Investigator, 1899
   Georgia Speaker, 1895
   Georgetown Planet Weekly, 1873
   Gleanor, 1898
   Globe (New York), 1880
   Globe (Ohio), 1884
   Guardian, 1901
   Herald (Arkansas), 1896
   Herald (Tenn.), 1927
   Herald (Texas), 1890
   Herald (Virginia), 1888
   Herald-Commwealth, 1920
   Horizon, 1907
   Houston Defender, 1930
   Houston Freeman, 1893
   Houston Informer, 1919
   Houston Sentinel, 1927
   Huntsville Gazette, 1872
   Huntsville Herald, 1878
   Huntsville Journal, 1895
   Huntsville News, 1917
   Huntsville Star, 1900
   Illinois Conservator, 1905
   Illinois Times, 1939
   Impartial Citizen, The, 1843
   Independent (Georgia), 1903
   Independent (Michigan), 1922
   Indianapolis Recorder, 1897
   Indianapolis World, 1883
   Indicator, 1893
   Industrial Day, 1888
   Industrial Era, 1903
   Informer, 1887
   Interpreter, 1903
   Iowa Bystander, 1894
   Item, 1890
   Jet, 1918
   Journal (Georgia), 1918
   Journal (Ohio), 1903
   Journal (Penn.), 1893
   Journal & Guide, 1901
   Journal of Negro Education,
     1931
   Journal of Negro History, 1916,
     1922
   Kansas City Advocate, 1914
   Kansas City American, 1928
   Kansas City Observer, 1896
   Kansas City Sun, 1908
   Kansas Elevator, 1916, 1928
   Kansas State Ledger, 1892
   Kansas Watchman, 1903
   Kentucky Reporter, 1899
   Laboring Man, 1886
   La Tribune de la Nouvelle-
     Orleans, 1864
   Leader, 1888
   Leavenworth Advocate, 1888
   Liberator, 1901
   Light, 1891
   Lighthouse and Informer, 1937
   Los Angeles Sentinel, 1932
   Los Angeles Tribune, 1940
   Louisiana Republican, 1881
   Louisiana Daily, 1870
   Louisville Defender, 1933
   Louisville Leader, 1917
   Loyal Georgian, 1866
   McDowell Times, 1913
   Macon Sentinel, 1899
   Major, 1897
   Memphis World, 1932
   Messenger (New York), 1917,
     1918
   Messenger (S. Carolina), 1894
   Messenger (Texas), 1932
   Metropolitan Journal, 1892
   Minneapolis Spokesman, 1934
   Miami Times, 1923
   Miami Whip, 1943
   Michigan Chronicle, 1943
   Michigan Independent, 1922
   Michigan State News, 1920
   Mind, 1931
   Mirror, 1886
   Mirror of the Times, 1856
   Missionary Record, 1871
   Mobile Weekly Press Forum, 1894
   Monitor, 1893
   Muskogee Lantern, 1902
   Muskogee Republican, 1905
   Muskogee Star, 1912
   Mystery, The, 1843
   Nashville Globe Independent,
     1906
   National Era, 1847
   National Independent, 1891
   National Negro Voice, 1913
   National Reflector, 1895
   National Reformer, The, 1843
   National Republican, 1898
   National Watchman, The, 1843
   Negro Appeal, 1899
   Negro Criterion, 1905
   Negro Digest (Black World), 1918
   Negro Gazette, 1872
   Negro Labor News, 1931
   Negro Question, 1888
   Negro Star, 1908
   Negro Watchman, 1874
   Negro World (Tenn.), 1887
   Negro World (New York), 1916,
     1918
   Negro Worker, The, 1932
   New Age-Dispatch, 1904
   New Era, 1899
   New Idea, 1891
   New National Era, 1869
   New Jersey Herald News, 1927
   New Jersey Record, 1934
   New Jersey Trumpet, 1887
   New Light, 1898
   New South, 1894
   Newport News Star, 1901
   New York News, 1913
   New York Phalanx, The, 1843
   North Star, The, 1843, 1847
   Northern Star, The, 1843
   Northwest Enterprise, 1920
   Northwest Herald, 1935
   Northwestern Recorder, 1892
   North Western News, 1923
   Oakland Times, 1923
   Observer (Louisiana), 1899
   Observer (Texas), 1916
   Ohio Republican, 1884
   Ohio State News, 1942
   Ohio State Tribune, 1884
   Oklahoma Eagle, 1922
   Omaha Guide, 1927
   Omaha Monitor, 1915
   Opportunity: A Journal of Negro
     Life, 1923
   Palladdium, 1899
   Palladium of Liberty, The, 1843
   Palmetto Leader, 1925
   People’s Advocate, 1891
   People’s Choice, 1894
   People’s Defender, 1889
   People’s Elevator , 1892
   People’s Elevator, 1924
   People’s Light, 1893
   People’s Voice, 1942
   Philadelphia Independent, 1931
   Phylon, 1695, 1940
   Pittsburgh Courier, 1907
   Plain-Dealer (Georgia), 1898
   Plaindealer (Kansas), 1899
   Post, 1926
   Press (Alabama), 1894
   Press (Virginia), 1891
   Press (Virginia), 1893
   Progress (Arkansas), 1880
   Progress (Nebraska), 1889
   Progressive Age, 1897
   Progressive Herald, 1933
   Public Ledger, 1887
   Race Standard, 1894
   Radical, 1897
   Ram’s Horn, The, 1843, 1847
   Record, 1896
   Recorder, 1893
   Register (Missouri), 1919
   Register (Texas), 1931
   Rescue, 1893
   Reporter (Alabama), 1902
   Reporter (Georgia), 1895
   Reporter (Miss.), 1909
   Reporter (Virginia), 1890
   Republican, 1896
   Review, 1884
   Richmond Planet, 1883
   Right House, 1908
   Rising Sun (Iowa), 1883
   Rising Sun (Missouri), 1896
   Rochester Voice, 1933
   St. Louis American, 1928
   St. Louis Argus, 1912
   St. Louis Clarion, 1915
   St. Louis Recorder, 1943
   St. Paul Recorder, 1933
   San Francisco Sentinel, 1850
   Savannah Tribune, 1875
   Savannah Weekly Echo, 1879
   Searchlight, 1898
   Seattle Republican, 1894
   Sentinel (Georgia), 1885
   Sentinel (Wash., D.C.), 1865
   Sepia Socialite, 1936
   Shreveport Sun, 1920
   Signal, 1897
   Southern Age, 1891
   Southern American, 1884
   Southern News, 1890
   Southern Sentinel, 1897
   Standard (Kentucky), 1892
   Standard (Virginia), 1889
   Standard Echo, 1881
   State Capital, 1886
   Statesman, 1889
   Star, 1903
   Struggler, The, 1843
   Sunday Item, 1881
   Sunday Unionist, 1894
   Tampa Bulletin, 1914
   Texas Examiner, 1942
   Texas Headlight, 1895, 1920
   Times, 1894
   Topeka Call, 1880, 1891
   Topeka Tribune, 1878, 1880
   Tribune (Georgia), 1886
   Tribune (Kansas), 1898
   Tribune (Penn.), 1884
   Tri-County Bulletin, 1945
   True Reformer, 1899
   Twin City Observer, 1943
   Union, 1907
   Valley Index, 1897
   Vindicator (Calif.), 1884
   Vindicator (Louisiana), 1800
   Virginia Star, 1877
   Voice of Missions, 1893
   Voice of the People, 1901
   Washington American, 1909
   Washington Bee, 1882
   Washington Tribune, 1920
   Watchman (Louisiana), 1896
   Watchman, The (Tenn.), 1843,
     1878
   Weekly Defiance, 1881
   Western Ideal, 1919
   Western Optic, 1887
   Western Outlook, 1894
   Wide Awake, 1888
   Wilmington Journal, 1945
   Wisconsin Enterprise Blade, 1916
   Wisconsin Weekly, 1898
   Wyandotte Echo, 1925
Newton, Huey, P., 1942, 1975,
     1976
Newton, Issac, Sir, 1727
New World, 1492, 1818
   African Presence in, 1324, 1512,
     1519, 1525, 1528
New York, 1664, 1674, 1704, 1712,
     1732, 1741, 1760, 1777, 1787,
     1790, 1796, 1800, 1804, 1809,
     1820, 1821, 1822, 1827, 1828,
     1830, 1834, 1835, 1837, 1839,
     1840, 1843, 1850, 1851, 1852,
     1853, 1854, 1859, 1860, 1864,
     1865, 1879, 1880, 1883, 1884,
     1885, 1887, 1894, 1896, 1898,
     1900, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906,
     1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912,
     1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917,
     1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922,
     1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927,
     1928, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1935,
     1938, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946,
     1949, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957,
     1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963,
     1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970,
     1971, 1973, 1974, 1975
       (see also Nieuw Amsterdam)
   “Black Bohemia,” 1900
   Bus Companies, 1941
   Discrimination, 1951, 1957
   Draft Riots, 1863
   Education and Blacks, 1973
   Free African Schools, 1787, 1820,
     1834
   Housing, 1951, 1957
   Philharmonic Society, 1842
   Public Schools, 1847
   Segregation, 1883, 1884
   Slaves in, 1655
   Subway, 1904
   Times, 1930
   Transit Authority, 1970
   Tribune, 1841
   University, 1831
   World’s Fair, 1938, 1963
New York Manumission Society,
     1787, 1820
New Zealand, 1893
Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles),
     1966
Niagara Movement, 1905, 1908
Niassa, 1974
Nicaragua, 1974, 1976, 1977,
     1978
   Bluefields, 1909
     (see also Latin America)
Nicholas I, 1854
Nieuw Amsterdam, 1626, 1644,
     1674
Niger, 1960, 1976
Nigeria, 1960, 1962, 1965,
     1968, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980
   Britain, 1887, 1900
   Civil War, 1967
   Coup d’état, 1975
Nile, Battle of the, 1798
Nile River, 1862
Nineveh, 606 BCE
Niño, Pedro, 1492
Nix, Robert C., 1958
Nixon, Richard M., Pres., 1968,
     1972,  1974, 1980
Njeri, Monicah, 1980
Nkomo, Joshua, 1979, 1980
Nkosi, 1930
Nkrumah, Kwame, Pres., 1957,
     1960, 1962, 1963, 1965
   (see also Ghana)
Nobel Prize, 1895, 1906, 1932,
     1950, 1952, 1957, 1961, 1964,
     1974, 1975
Non-European Convention, 1930
Nongquase, 1856
North American Air Defense Com-
     mand, 1975
North Carolina, 1664, 1802, 1822,
     1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1834,
     1844, 1850, 1865, 1870, 1872,
     1875, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1883,
     1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1895,
     1903, 1904, 1915, 1920, 1946,
     1958, 1959, 1960, 1962
   Ku Klux Klan, 1870
   Politics, 1889
   White Secret Society, 1872
North Carolina A&T University,
     1891, 1960, 1969
North Carolina Central University,
     1910
North Carolina, Death of Frederick
     Douglass, 1895
North Carolina Mutual Insurance
     Company, 1898
Northup, Solomon, 1853
Nugent, John Peer, 1978
Nyerere, Julius K., Pres., 1961
   (see also Tanzania)


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