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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 O to Z

O
Oakland (Calif.), 1968, 1975 
Obadele, Imari Abubakar, 1973 
Obasanjo, Olusegun, Gen., 1975
   (see also Nigeria) 
Oberlin College, 1833, 1847, 
     1858 
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 
     1865 
Obote, Apolo Milton, Pres., 
     1965,  1972 
Occam, William of, 1347 
Odinga, Oginga, 1911, 1979 
Odoacer, 476 
Ogé, Victor, 1790, 1821 
Ogelthorpe, 1733 
Ohio, 1804, 1808, 1820, 1825,
     1826, 1829, 1830, 1832, 1833,
     1836, 1838, 1840, 1844, 1847,
     1848, 1849, 1850, 1852, 1854,
     1855, 1856, 1858, 1860, 1863,
     1864, 1865, 1867, 1869, 1870,
     1871, 1872, 1875, 1880, 1884,
     1887, 1890, 1892, 1896, 1900,
     1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908,
     1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914,
     1915, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921,
     1922, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931,
     1932, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1940,
     1941, 1942, 1943, 1965, 1966,
     1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1975,
     1979
   African Suffrage, 1867 
   Anti-Mob Violence Act, 1896 
   Black Laws, 1804 
   Civil Rights, 1884 
   National Guard, 1970 
   Negro Protective Party, 1897 
   Public Universities, 1804, 1809,
     1819, 1870, 1872, 1873, 1887,
     1891, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1938,
     1964
   Segregation, 1871
Ohio State University, 1873 
Ohio University, 1804 
Okeechobee, Battle of, 1837 
Oklahoma, 1850, 1879, 1881, 
     1890, 1897, 1905, 1913, 1914,
     1915, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1929,
     1958, 1973 
Olatunji, Babatunde, 1970 
   Olatunji Center for African 
   Culture, 1970 
Oldendorp, C.G.A., 1741 
Oliver, Joe “King,” 1917, 1923, 
     1938
Olustee, Battle of, 1864 
Olympic Games, 776 BCE, 1936,
     1956, 1968, 1976, 1979 
Omani Empire, 1840 
Oman Revolution, Congress of,
      The, 1968 
Omar, 632 
Omar, Al-Hajj, 1851 
Omayyads, 749 
Omdurman, Battle of, 1885, 
     1898 
O’Neal, Frederick, 1929, 1964,
     1968 
One Hundred Amazing Facts 
     about  the Negro, 1804 
Operas, Black Artists in, 1868, 
     1933, 1949, 1955, 1966 
“Operation Boy Scout,“ 1974 
Opium War, 1839 
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro
     Life, 1923 
Opportunities Industrialization 
     Corp., 1971 
Orange River, 1867 
Oregon Territory, 1846 
Organization of African Unity 
     (OAU), 1963, 1964, 1975, 
     1976, 1979 
Organization of Afro-American 
     Unity (OAAU), 1964 
   (See also Malcolm X)
Organization of American States 
     (OAS), 1972 
Organization of the People of 
     Africa, Asia, and Latin Amer- 
     ica (OSPAAAL), 1966 
Orthodox Christian Church, 483 
Osceola, 1838 
Osorkon II, (1974) 
Ostend Manifesto, 1854 
Othello, 1826, 1943 
“Othello,” 1973 
Othman, 644, 656 
Otto I, 962, 936, 963 
Our Nig, 1859 
Outline of History, 4, 1638 
Ovambo Bantustan, 1975 
Overbearing Americans, (1980) 
Overshoe, 1898 
Owen, Chandler, 1918 
Owen, Robert, 1819, 1835 
Owens, Jesse, 1936 
Oyo, 1750 
P
Pacheo, Louis and Abraham,
     1850
PAC (Pan-Africanist Congress), 
     1960, 1979 
Pace Phonograph Corp., 1914, 
     1921
Pacto de el Asiento de Negros, 
     1713
Padmore, George, 1930, 1959 
Pahlevi, Mohammed Reza, Shah,
     1974 
PAIGC, 1956, 1963, 1973, 1974,
     1975 
Paine, Charles, 1864 
Paine College, 1883 
Paine, William “Che,” 1970 
Painter’s Union, 1907 
Palestine, 1948, 1950, 1973, 
     1975 
Palmares, Republic of, 1695 
Palmer Memorial Institute, 1904
Pan-African Congress, 1919, 1921,
     1923, 1927, 1945, 1973, 1974
Pan-African Cultural Festival, 
     1969 
Pan-Africanist Congress (see PAC)
Pan-African Peace Force, 1979 
Pan-African Protest Conference, 
     1900 
Pan-African Unity, 1953, 1963, 
      1972 
Panama (Panama Canal), 1903, 
     1904, 1972, 1974, 1975 
Pan Chau, 102 
Panipat, Battle of, 1525 
Pannonia, 9 
Papal Court, 1309 
Paraguay, 1861 
Paramount Records, 1923 
Park, Mungo, 1795, 1806 
Parker, Charlie “Yard-Bird,” 1920,
      1955 
Parker, Mack, 1959 
Parks, Rosa, Mrs., 1955 
Parsons, James B., 1961 
Parthinians, 53 BCE 
Passau, Treaty of, 1552 
Patriotic Front, 1979, 1980 
Patterson, William, L., 1951 
Paul, Thomas, Rev., 1809 
Payne, Daniel A., 1811, 1856 
Peabody Educational Fund, 
     1874, 1875 
Peace and Freedom Party, 
     1968 
Peace Corps., 1961 
Peace of Campo Formio, 1797 
Peace of Paris, 1763 
Peake, George, 1808 
Peake, Mary, 1861 
Pearl Harbor, 1941 
Peary, Robert E., 1909 
Pease, Joachim, 1864 
Pedi People, 1852 
Peisistratus, 527 BCE 
Peloponnesian War, 431 BCE 
Pemba Island, 1977 
Pennington, James W.C., 1809,
     1841, 1849, 1870 
Pennsylvania, 1641, 1664, 1681,
     1688, 1713, 1741, 1758, 1775,
     1781, 1784, 1787, 1790, 1794,
     1800, 1801, 1809, 1817, 1819,
     1822, 1830, 1831, 1833, 1834,
     1835, 1838, 1840, 1842, 1843,
     1849, 1854, 1859, 1872, 1876,
     1880, 1884, 1890, 1892, 1897,
     1899, 1900, 1902, 1907, 1920,
     1929, 1931, 1938, 1941, 1946,
     1958, 1971
Pencil Sharpener, 1897 
Peonage, in U.S., 1907, 1926,
     1930, 1932 
   (see also Slavery, Slave Trade)
People’s Front for Liberation of 
     Oman (PFLOAG), 1965, 1968,
     1974 
People’s National Assembly, 1973
   (see also Guinea-Bissau) 
People’s Progressive Party, 1950,
     1979 
People’s Temple, 1979 
Pepin of Heristhal, 687 
Pepin the Short, 751, 768 
Pereira, Aristides, 1973 
Pergamum, 133 BCE 
Perlo, Victor, 1975 
Perry, Lincoln, 1929 
Pericles, 429 BCE 
Pershing, John J., 1916 
Persian Empire, 539 BCE, 
     490 BCE, 480 BCE, 332 BCE 
Persian Gulf, 1980 
Peru, 1551, 1780-1781, 
     1831-1836, 1855, 1972, 
     1973, 1975 
   Africans in, 1532 
Pestilence (the Plague, the “Black
     Death”), 164, 543, 590, 1094,
     1348 
Peter the Great, 1689 
Peters, Brock, 1973 
Peters, Frank, 1887 
Peterson, Louis, 1953 
Peterson, Thomas, 1870 
Pétion, Alexandre, 1791 
  (see also Haiti) 
Petioni, C.A., 1928 
Petrarch, 1304, 1375 
Phan van Dong, 1974 
Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1911 
Philadelphia, 1681, 1758, 1775,
     1781, 1794, 1800, 1801, 1814,
     1816, 1817, 1819, 1872, 1958
   (see also Pennsylvania) 
Philadelphia Housing Assoc., 
     1941
Philadelphia Negro, The, 1899 
Phoenix Society, 1822, 1833 
Philiss Wheatley Association, 
     1905, 1911 
Phylon (see Newspapers, Journals)
Pickering, John F., 1900 
Pickett, William “Bill,” 1868, 1905
Pierce, Franklin, 1853 
Pietro, Alonzo, 1492 
Pinchback, P.B.J., 1872, 1873,
     1876 
Pius, Antoninus, 138 
Pizarro, Francisco, 1530, 1532 
Platt Amendment, 1903 
Playhouse Settlement (see 
     Karamu House) 
Plataea, Battle of, 479 BCE 
Plato, 427 BCE 
Poitier, Sidney, 1924, 1950, 1951,
     1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1966,
     1967, 1968, 1976 
Poison Spring (see Massacares) 
Polio Vaccine (see Salk, Jonas, 
     Dr.)
Polisario Front, 1975, 1976 
Politics, Independent Black, 1830,
     1831, 1843, 1851, 1864, 1883,
     1897, 1907, 1912, 1944, 1972,
     1976, 1980 
Polk, James K., Pres., 1841, 1844
Pollard, Bud, 1932 
Polo, Marco, 1271, 1295 
Pompey, 66 BCE, 48 BCE 
Pompey, Rev., (1962) 
Ponce de León, Juan, 1512 
Poor People’s March to Wash., 
     DC, 1968 
Pope, Chief, (1962) 
Popes, the Catholic 
   Alexander VI, 1492, 1494 
   Boniface VIII, 1294, 1303 
   Clement V, 1305 
  Clement VII, 1378 
   Gregory VII, 1073 
   Gregory IX, 1227 
   Gregory XI, 1377 
   Honorius II, 1216 
   Innocent III, 1198 
   John X, 928 
   John XI, 931 
   John XII, 955, 963 
   John XIII, 1960, 1963 
   Leo X, 1513 
   Martin V, 1417, 1420 
   Paschal II, 1099 
   Paul VI, 1963 
   Pius I, 186 
   Urban II, 1087, 1095 
   Urban VI, 1378 
     (see also African Popes) 
Popular Movement for Liberation
     of Angola (see MPLA) 
Population Statistics, U.S., 1770,
     1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830,
     1840, 1850, 1860, 1865, 1870,
     1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920,
     1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970,
     1972 
   (see also Black Population Sta-
     tistics) 
Populists, 1882 
Porgy & Bess, 1943, 1959 
Port Hudson & Civil War, 1863 
Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organ-
     ization, 1980 
Portsmouth (Ohio), 1830 
Portugal (Portuguese), 1147, 1415,
     1441, 1442, 1456, 1482, 1487,
     1490, 1494, 1497, 1505, 1506,
     1596, 1629, 1665, 1729, 1834,
     1838, 1841, 1889, 1910, 1930,
     1960, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969,
     1973, 1974, 1975 
   (see also Brazil, Angola, Guinea-
     Bissau, Mozambique) 
POW’s, Execution of, 1863, 1864
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908,
    1944, 1955, 1961 
Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr., 1865,
      1923 
Prairie View A&M College, 1876 
Prayer Pilgrimmage, 1957 
Pre-Columbian Atlantic Crossings,
     1324 
Pree, T.J., 1919 
Preer, Evelyn, 1925 
Presidential Candidates, Black,
     1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 
Price, J.C., 1890 
Price, John, 1858 
Price, Leontyne, 1927, 1966 
Priscus, 448 
Primus, Pearl, 1944 
Princeton University, 1955, 1975 
Probus, 275 
Progressive Alliance of Liberia
     (PAL), 1980 
Progressive Democratic Party,
     1944 
“Progressive Era, The,” 1890 
Progressive Farmers and House-
     hold Union, 1919 
Prosser, Gabriel, 1800, 1936 
Protest Demonstrations, U.S., 
     1906, 1915, 1917, 1929 
   Civil Rights, 1941, 1945, 1961,
     1963, 1970 
   Alabama, 1963 
   Harlem, 1963 
   Jail-Ins, 1961 
   Kansas, 1970 
   Kent State Univ., 1968, 1970 
   Louisiana, 1961 
   Mississippi, 1970 
   Sit-Ins, 1960, 1961, 1962 
   Snipers, 1968, 1970 
   South Carolina, 1968 
   U.S. Air Force Base, 1966 
   Wade-Ins, 1960, 1961 
   World’s Fair, 1963 
Protestant Revolution 
   (see Reformation) 
Provident Hospital, 1891, 1893 
Prussia (see Germany) 
Pryor, Richard, 1973 
Psammetichus I, 664 BCE 
Psycho-surgery, 1935, 1975 
Ptolemy Soter, 285 BCE 
Puerto Rico, 1527, 1841, 1873,
     1890, 1968, 1972, 1975 
Pulitzer Prize, 1950 
Pulley, Andrew, 1972, 1980 
Punic Wars, 264 BCE, 219 BCE,
     146 BCE 
Purified Nationalist Party, 1934 
Purvis, Robert, 1890 
Puryear, Civis B., 1876 
Pyrrhus, 279 BCE, 275 BCE,
     281 BCE 
Q
Quaco, 1783 
Quakers, 1775, 1787 
  Slavery, 1688 
Quarrie, Don, 1976 
Quebec, 1608 
   Battle of, 1759 
Queen’s College (Guyana), 1842
Queen’s Collegiate School 
     (Trinidad), 1859 
Queen Elizabeth (see Elizabeth I,
     Elizabeth II) 
Queen Mother Moore, 1927 
Queen Victoria, 1837, 1840, 
     1877, 1897, 1901 
R
Race Riots, 1829, 1834, 1835,
     1836 
   Alabama, 1943, 1946, 1956,
     1957, 1963 
   Arkansas, 1919, 1957 
   California, 1943, 1965 
   Florida, 1876, 1923, 1960 
   Georgia, 1906, 1961 
   Illinois, 1908, 1917, 1919, 1951,
     1953, 1964, 1965, 1966 
   Indiana, 1906 
   Louisiana, 1866, 1868, 1896,
     1900
   Maryland, 1963 
   Michigan, 1925, 1942, 1943, 
     1967
   Mississippi, 1871, 1874, 1875, 
     1960, 1962, 1965, 1966 
   Nebraska, 1919 
   New Jersey, 1926, 1963, 1964 
   New York, 1863, 1900, 1928, 
     1935, 1943, 1963, 1964 
   North Carolina, 1899, 1969 
   Ohio, 1863, 1904, 1906, 1926,
     1966 
   Oklahoma, 1921, 1923 
   Pennsylvania, 1918, 1946, 1964
   South Carolina, 1876, 1926 
   Tennessee, 1866, 1874, 1919,
     1946, 1956, 1960 
   Texas, 1906, 1919, 1943, 1956
   Virginia, 1884 
   Washington, D.C., 1919 
Race War, 1971 
Racial Bombings, 1956, 1957, 
     1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 
Radio City Music Hall, 1970 
Railway Brake Apparatus, 1905 
Rainbowe, the (see Slave Ships)
“Rainbow Children,” 1973 
Rainey, Gertrude “Ma,” 1902 
Rainey, Joseph H., 1870, 1832 
Railroads, 1926 
   (see also Union Pacific) 
Raisin in the Sun, 1959 
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1583, 1618
Rand, Peter, 1826 
Randolph, A. Philip, 1889, 
     1918, 1941, 1948, 1955 
Rangel, Charles, 1975 
Rastafarian Movement, 1930 
Ratisbon, Treaty of, 1680 
Rawlings, T.P., 1896 
Ray, Charlotte E., 1872 
Ray, James Earl, 1968 
Real Cedula, 1513 
Reagan, Ronald, Pres., 1980 
Reason, Charles L., 1850 
Recollections of Seventy Years,
     1811 
Reconstruction, 1866, 1867, 1868,
     1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873,
     1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1960,
     1964, 1965, 1969, 1975 
   (see also Freedmen’s Bureau) 
Redmond, Eugene, 1976 
Red Shirts, 1898 
“Red Tails” (see U.S. Air Force) 
Reed, John, 1820 
Reed, Thomas, 1975 
Reese, James, 1914 
Reformation, 1517 
Reid, Willie Mae, 1976 
Religious Wars 
   Buganda, 1890 
   Thirty Years’ War, 1618, 1648 
Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810,
     1838
Renaissance 
   European, 1453 
   Harlem, 1920 
Republic of New Africa, the (RNA),
     1973, 1975 
“Resurrection of Lazarus,” 1897 
Revels, Hiram, 1822, 1870, 1876,
     1901 
Revolts (see Slave Revolts, Race
     Riots) 
Rhode Island, 1655, 1777, 1778,
     1842, 1866 
Rhodes, Cecil J., 1887, 1890, 
     1893
Rhodes, Hari, 1973 
Rhodes Scholars, Black, 1886,
     1907
Rhodesia, 1896, 1923, 1965, 
     1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1979,
     1980 
   (see also Zimbabwe) 
Rice, C.W., 1931 
Rice, Thomas, 1828 
Richards, Beah, 1967, 1968 
Richelieu, Cardinal, 1623, 1642
Rickman, A.J., 1898 
Ricks, Willie, 1966 
“Righteous Harmonious Fists,” 
     1900
Rillieux, Norbert, 1846 
Ritter, Joseph E., Archbishop, 
     1947
Roberts, Benjamin, 1849 
Roberts, Frederick M., 1919 
Roberts, Joseph, Pres., 1809 
Robertson, Elberta “Doc,” 1925 
Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1930,
     1937 
Robeson, Paul, 1898, 1924, 
     1925, 1930, 1933, 1937, 1940,
     1943, 1945, 1949, 1976, 1978
Robespierre, 1794 
Robinson, Bernard W., 1942 
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” 1878,
     1949 
Robinson, Jackie Roosevelt, 1919,
     1947, 1949 
Robinson, Lewis G., 1929 
Robinson, Randall, 1980 
Robinson, Renault, 1973 
Rock, John S., 1865 
Rockefeller, David, 1976 
Rockefeller, John D., 1903, 1926,
     1928 
Rockefeller Foundation, 1979 
Rockefeller, Nelson, Gov., 1963,
     1971 
Rock Paintings, African, (1979) 
Rodney, Walter, 1979, 1980 
Rogers, F.L., 1905 
Rolf the Ganger, 911 
Roman Emperors, 78 BCE, 
      48 BCE, 44 BCE, 27 BCE, 14, 
      37, 41, 54, 64, 68, 69, 79, 96, 
      117, 138, 161, 193, 269, 270,
      275, 276, 284, 303, 306, 314, 
      323, 350, 379, 392, 395, 527,
      529, 565 
Roman Plague, 590 
Romans, 753 BCE, 321 BCE, 
     280 BCE, 279 BCE, 260 BCE, 
     225 BCE, 216 BCE, 200 BCE,
     118 BCE, 89 BCE 
Rome, 1871 
Roosevelt, Elliott, 1974 
Roosevelt, Franklin, D., Pres., 
     1933, 1940, 1941, 1945, 
     1948 
Roosevelt, Theodore, Pres., 
     1898, 1901, 1904, 1906, 1908,
     1912
Rosemond, Clinton, 1945
Rosenwald, Julius, Fund, 1910,
     1923, 1927, 1944
Rowan, Carl, 1955
Royal African Company, 1672
Rozwi Empire, 1450, 1480, 1700
Rubens, (1890)
Rudolph of Habsburg, 1273
Rugambwa, Laurian, Bishop,
     1960
Rumania, 1958
Rummell, Joseph, Archbishop,
     1962
Rurik the Northman, 850
Russell, Bill, 1934
Russell, Charlie L., 1973
Russia, 865, 904, 1037, 1043,
     1240, 1807, 1811, 1856,1861,
     1867, 1922, 1940, 1958, 1961,
      (1975), 1980
   Japan, 1904
   Revolution, 1917
   Space Travel, 1957
Russworm, John, 1826, 1827,
     1829
Rutherford, S.W., 1898
Ruvuma River, 1967
Rwanda, 1979
S
Sahel, the, 1973
Said, Seyyid, 1840
St. Aquinas, Thomas, 1225,
     1274
St. Augustine, 354
St. Augustine’s College, 1867
St. Benedict, 480, 544
St. Boniface, Martyrdom of, 755
St. Croix Island, 1916, 1972
St. Dominic, 1221 
St. Francis of Assisi, 1226
St. George’s Episcopal Church,
     1894
St. Helena Bay, 1497
St. Helena Island, 1889
St. Ignatius, 1556
St. Jacques, Raymond, 1968,
     1969, 1970
St. John Island, 1916
St. Kitts Island, 1972, 1974
“St. Louis Blues,” 1914
St. Lucia Island, 1638, 1763,
     1943, 1972, 1979
St. Thomas Island, 1916, 1973
St. Vincent Island, 1763, 1972,
     1975, 1979
Saladin, 1187
Salem, Peter, 1775, 1816
Salk, Jonas, Dr., 1953
Sam, Alfred C., Chief, 1913
“Sambo” Film Series, 1911
Sammons, Walter H., 1920
Samnites, 321 BCE
Samoan Islands, 1722
Sampson, Edith, 1950
Sampson, George T., 1892
Sandinista National Liberation
      Front, 1976, 1977
   (see also Nicaragua)
Sands, Diana, 1963, 1972
San Fernando Valley State, 1968
San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Santiago de Cuba, 1554
Santo Domingo, 1501, 1519,
     1522, 1560, 1679, 1691, 1697,
     1790, 1791, 1796, 1802, 1829,
     1870,1940
   (see also Haiti, Dominican
     Republic, Latin America)
Santomee, Lucas, Dr., (1979)
Saphire, 1959
Sapor I, 260
Saracens, 732, 1250
   (see also Muslims, Islam)
Saraiva Guerreiro, Ramiro, 1980
Sardanapalus, 667 BCE
Sargon II, 722 BCE, 704 BCE
Sassanid Reign, 531
Saucy Jack, the (see Slave
     Ships)
Saudi Arabia, 1979, 1980
Savannah State College, 1890
Savimbi, Jonas, 1979
Sawaba Party, 1980
Saxton, Rufus, 1862
Scarborough, William Saunders,
   1926
Schact, Lawrence, 1978
Scheur, Sandra, 1970
Schomburg Center, the, 1926
School Integration, 1840, 1847,
     1849, 1850, 1865, 1866, 1867,
     1880, 1890, 1945, 1951, 1952,
     1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959,
     1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965
   (see also Black Schools,
     Colleges)
Schroeder, William, 1970
Schweitzer, Albert, Dr., 1952
Schwerner, Michael, 1964
Schwyz, Men of, 1245
SCLC (Southern Christian Leader-
     ship Conference), 1957, 1960,
    1961, 1966, 1973
Scopes, John, Trial of, 1925
Scott, Dred, 1847, 1857, (1870)
Scott, Emmett J., 1917, 1918
Scott, Robert, 1894
“Scottsboro Boys,” 1931
Scotus, Duns, 1308
Scythia, 521 BCE
Seale, Bobby, 1973
Sears, Barnas, 1874
Seattle (Wash.), 1860, 1973,
     1976
Second World Black and African
     Festival, 1975
Segal, Ronald, 1971
Segregation, 1847, 1849, 1850,
     1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874,
     1875, 1876, 1881, 1883, 1884,
     1912, 1945, 1951, 1954, 1955,
     1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962,
     1963
   (see also School Integration)
Seleucid Dynasty, 192 BCE
Seleucus, 303 BCE
Self-Defense, Armed, 1862, 1962
Selim, 1512, 1517
Seljuk Turks, 1071
Selassie, Haile, Emperor, 1935,
     1941, 1974
   (see also Ethiopia)
“Selling of Joseph,The,” 1897
Seko, Mobutu Sese, Pres., 1979,
     1980
   (see also Zaire)
Seme, P. ka Isaka, Dr., 1930
Seminole Indians, 1819, 1837,
     1839, 1850
   (see also Indians)
Senate Intelligence Committee,
     1975
Senegal, 1960, 1980
Senghor, Léopold, Pres., (1971),
     1980
Senmut, (1820)
Sennacherib, 704 BCE
Serapis, 390
Serbia, 6 AD
Seven Cities of Gold, 1539
Seven Weeks’ War, 1866
Seven Years’ War, 1756
Severus, L. Septimius, 193
Sewall, Samuel, 1700
Seychelles, 1979
Shadow and Act, 1914
Shadrach, 1851
Shagari, Alhaji Shehu, Pres.,
     1980
Shah, Nadir, 1736
Shaka, 1783, 1819
Shakespeare, William, 1564
   (see also Othello)
Sharpe, Samuel, 1831
Sharpeville Massacre
   (see Massacres)
Shaw University, 1865
Shepstone, Theophilus, Sir,
     1845-1875
Sherman, William T., Gen., 1861,
     1864, 1865
Shi-Hwang-ti, 220 BCE, 246 BCE
Shiloh, Battle of, 1862
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., Rev., 1956,
     1957, 1963
Siege of Petersburg, 1864
Sibeko, David, 1979
Sicilian Greeks, 735 BCE,
     474 BCE
Sierra Leone, 1787, 1820, 1841,
     1907, 1961, 1980
Simba Rebellion, 1964
Simone, Nina, 1935
Sims, Thomas, 1851
Singleton, Pap, 1879
Sioux Indians, 1973
   (see also Indians)
Sipolilo, Battle of, 1967
Sissle, Noble, 1883, 1922, 1924
Siquake, Jaime, 1966
“Sit-Ins,” 1929, 1958, 1959, 1960,
     1961, 1962, 1963
Slater, John F., Fund, 1882
Slave Codes, 1685, 1705, 1712
Slave Ships, 1562, 1638, 1645,
     1647, 1655, 1814, 1816, 1817,
     1819, 1839, 1841, 1859
Slave Revolts, 1519, 1522, 1526,
     1527, 1529, 1531, 1533, 1537,
     1550, 1639, 1655, 1662, 1663,
     1674, 1679, 1685, 1687, 1690,
     1691, 1692, 1694, 1695, 1702,
     1711, 1712, 1715, 1718, 1719,
     1726-1728, 1730, 1733, 1734,
     1737, 1739, 1741, 1743, 1744,
     1745, 1754, 1760, 1762, 1763,
     1765, 1766, 1768, 1770-1771,
     1772, 1773, 1776, 1800, 1801,
     1802, 1808, 1811, 1816, 1822,
     1823, 1835, 1828-1837, 1831,
     1837, 1839, 1841, 1850, 1853,
      (1975)
Slavery, Abolishment of, 1777,
     1827, 1829, 1834, 1836, 1838,
     1842, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1873,
     1880, 1888
   Anti-, 1700, 1774, 1785, 1787,
     1800, 1821, 1829, 1832, 1833,
     1835, 1839, 1870, 1880, 1926,
     1930, 1932
   Baptism, 1571, 1641, 1667,
      1735
    “Bleached and Unbleached
      Workers,” 1834
   Branding of, 1784
   Fear, 1514, 1735, 1741, 1788,
     1829, 1830, 1831, 1834
   Freedom, 1739, 1778, 1785,
     1787, 1862
   Fugitives, 1787, 1793, 1804,
     1816, 1820, 1835, 1838, 1842,
     1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1854,
     1858, 1861, 1863, 1864
   Hereditary Servitude, 1662
   Laws Against, 1655, 1695, 1865
   Manumission of, 1644, 1787
   Sanctioned, 1513, 1516, 1619,
     1641, 1787, 1857, 1860, 1930,
     1973
Slave Trade, 1442, 1482, 1492,
     1502, 1510, 1513, 1514, 1517,
     1562, 1588, 1618, 1619, 1638,
     1688, 1700, 1735, 1777, 1787,
     1788, 1808, 1814, 1816, 1817,
     1819, 1820, 1827, 1843, 1896
   South Africa, 1657, 1825, 1838
   White Slaves, 1501, 1670,
     (1979)
       (see also Peonage)
Smalls, Robert, 1839, 1862
Smallpox, 1713
Smith, A.J., 1864
Smith, Bessie, 1894, 1937
Smith, Denver, 1972
Smith, Gerrit, 1834
Smith, H.C., 1863
Smith, Ian, 1980
Smith, Joseph, 1897
Smith, Mamie, 1920
Smith, Otis M., 1961
Smith, Tommie, 1968
Smith, Jedediah, 1826
Smith, Wiley, III, 1966
SNCC (Student Non-Violent
     Coordinating Committee),
     1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966,
     1974
Socialism, 1835, 1948, 1974,
     1980
Socialist Workers Party, 1968,
      1972, 1976, 1980
Social Security Act, 1934
Society of Black Composers, 1969
Society of West India Planters &
     Merchants, 1758
“Society of Negroes,” 1693
Sociobiology, 1976
Soderini, Piero, 1512
Soldiers, Black, U.S., 1775, 1776,
     1777, 1778, 1779, 1783, 1785,
     1812, 1814, 1815, 1861, 1862,
     1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1876,
     1898, 1906, 1916, 1917, 1918,
     1923, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941,
     1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948,
    1959, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1973
Soledad Brother, 1972
Solidarity Against Imperialism,
     Racism, Zionism, Day of, 1973
Somalia, 1960, 1976, 1979, 1980
Sommerville, John, 1928
Somoza, Anastasio (see Debayle,
     Anastasio Somoza)
Songhay Empire, 600, 765, 1373,
     1460, 1591
Sonni Ali, 1460
Sontonga, Enoch, 1897
Sophocles, 495 BCE
Souls of Black Folk, The, 1895,
     1903
Sousa, Teixeira E., 1843
South Africa (Azania), 1487, 1497,
     1647, 1652, 1659, 1662, 1673,
     1687, 1688, 1702, 1713, 1770,
     1774, 1777, 1779, 1783, 1793,
     1795, 1798, 1803, 1806, 1808,
     1809, 1811, 1812, 1818, 1820,
     1824, 1828, 1830, 1834, 1836,
     1837, 1838, 1843, 1845, 1846,
     1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852,
     1854, 1856, 1858, 1860, 1865,
     1867, 1868, 1872, 1873, 1878,
     1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1884,
     1885, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1893,
     1897, 1898, 1906, 1910, 1912,
     1913, 1914, 1915, 1921, 1923,
     1924, 1927, 1933, 1935, 1946,
     1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958,
     1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964,
     1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973,
     1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980
   All-African National Convention,
     1935
   Anti-Pass Laws, 1906, 1918,
     1930, 1944, 1950, 1952, 1956,
     1958, 1960, 1967
   Apartheid, 1948, 1960, 1973,
     1974, 1979
   Black Consciousness Movement,
     1946
   Coalition Government, 1933
   Colour Bar Act, 1926
   Communist Party (see Commu-
     nist Party-South Africa)
   Epidemic in, 1687, 1713
   Exodus, 1879, 1923
   Freedom Charter, The,  1955,
   Gold Discovered, 1886
   Independence, 1961
   Miners, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1960,
     1973
   National Anthem, 1897
   National Liberation League,
     1935
   Nationalist Party, 1924, 1934,
     1953 
   Newspapers, Journals, 1884,
     1959
   Political Organizations, 1882,
     1902, 1915, 1935, 1947,
     1953, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1961
   Protests, 1930, 1944, 1950,
     1956, 1960, 1979, 1980
   Rivonia Trial, 1964
   Strikes, 1918, 1919, 1946, 1949,
     1950, 1973, 1975
   South Africa Party, 1924
   Student Organization (SASO),
     1969
   “Sullivan Principles, the,” 1971,
     1980
   SWAPO, 1966, 1975
      (see also Namibia)
   Trade Unionism, 1919, 1941,
     1955, 1964
   Treason Trial, 1956
   “Umkonto We Sizwe,” 1961
   United Party, 1934
   Voting, 1936, 1951
   Women, 1913, 1918, 1930,
     1943, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1967
       (see also ANC)
South America, 1975, 1978
    Africans in, 1532, 1534, 1550,
     1557, 1579, 1711, 1719, 1763,
     1772, 1784, 1788, 1798, 1862,
     1884, 1888, 1940
       (see also Emigration)
   Dutch in, 1615, 1626, 1831,
     1975
   Jesuit Missionaries, 1549
Southampton Slave Revolt of
     1831, The, 1831
South Carolina, 1526, 1670, 1739,
     1740, 1743, 1773, 1792, 1810,
     1822, 1829, 1830, 1832, 1834,
     1839, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863,
     1865, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1870,
     1871, 1872, 1873, 1876, 1881,
     1890, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1925,
     1944, 1951, 1961, 1968
   Blacks in Government, 1868,
     1870
   Constitution, 1868
   State College (University), 1896,
     1968
   White Rule, 1876
Southern Africa, 1629, 1836, 1837,
     1887, 1889, 1890, 1893, 1896,
     1923, 1924, 1964, 1965, 1966,
     1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973,
     1974, 1976, 1979
Southern Christian Advocate, 1800
Southern Conference for Human
      Welfare, 1938
Southern Regional Council, 1961
Southern Rhodesia (see Southern
      Africa)
Southern Syncopated Orchestra,
     1919
Southern University, 1880, 1960,
     1962, 1972
Southern Youth Negro Congress,
     1937
South West Africa (see Namibia)
Soviet Union (see Russia)
Sowande, Fela, Chief, (1809),
     1968
Space Travel, 1957, 1961, 1962
Spain, 379, 425, 711, 1198, 1415,
     1441, 1456, 1492, 1494, 1498,
     1500, 1501, 1502, 1510, 1511,
     1517, 1519, 1522, 1528, 1530,
     1538, 1539, 1546, 1557, 1559,
     1562, 1588, 1591, 1592, 1595,
     1609, 1626, 1655, 1670,
     1679fn, 1697, 1701, 1713,
     1769, 1801, 1811, 1816,
     1816-1823, 1819, 1820-1821,
     1830, 1838, 1854, 1868, 1876,
     1895-1898, 1898, 1912, 1924,
     1930, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1968,
     1976
Spanish Morocco, 1415, 1924
Spartacus, 73 BCE
Spaulding, E.C. 1898
Speke, John, 1862
Spingarn Medal Award, 1914,
     1915,   1945
Spellman College, 1883
Spinola, General, 1975
“Sputnik” (see Space Travel)
S.S. Falgout, 1962
S.S. Kearsage, 1864
S.S. Ontario, 1816
Stagecoach, First Route, 1732
Stalin, Joseph, 1953
Stamps, T.B., 1800
Standard Fruit Co., 1974
Steam Boiler Furnace, 1884
Steam Table, 1897
Stedman, J.G., Capt., 1795
Steinbeck, John, 1962
Stevens, Siaka, Pres., 1980
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1866,
     1868
Stevenson, Adlai, 1951
Still, William, 1872
Still, William Grant, 1895, 1927,
     1931, 1949
Stokes, Carl B., 1967
Stokes, Louis, 1975
Stoneman, George, 1864
“Stono Conspiracy, the” 1739
Storyville (New Orleans), 1897,
     1917
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1852
Street Sweeper, 1896
Strikes, 1863, 1882, 1894, 1895,
     1900, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1919,
     1926, 1927, 1937, 1946, 1949,
     1950, 1973, 1975, 1976
Sudan, 1650, 1859, 1885, 1898,
     1956, 1976, 1980
Suez Canal, 1859, 1869, 1875,
     1952, 1956, 1968, 1975
Sugar Refining, 1813, 1837, 1846,
     1850, 1882
Sugar Trade, 1456, 1500, 1510,
     1741, 1764, 1796, 1846, 1850,
     1854, 1903, 1937, 1962, 1974
Suleiman, 716
Suleiman I, 1520, 1529, 1566
Sullivan, Leon Howard, Rev.,
     1971
“Sullivan Principles, the”
   (see South Africa)
Sumner, Charles, 1849, 1867,
     1874, 1875
Sundiata, 1230
Sunstrom, Frank, 1980
Supreme Court, U.S., 1857, 1876,
     1883, 1896, 1906, 1915, 1917,
     1925, 1930, 1941, 1944, 1946,
     1948, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962,
     1965, 1966, 1972
   Education, 1938, 1948, 1950,
     1954, 1955
   Separate Facilities, 1941
   Voting Rights, 1876
Supreme Liberty Life Insurance
     Co., 1929
Supreme Life & Casualty Co.,
     1920, 1929
Surinam, 1715, 1763, 1772, 1795,
     1974, 1975
SWAPO (South West African
     Political Organization), 1959,
     1966, 1975, 1979
   (see also South Africa, Namibia)
Swazi Bantustan, 1976
Swaziland, 1968
Sweden, 1645, 1756, 1850, 1961,
     1980
Sweet, Ossian, 1925
Sweeting, J.A., 1897
Swing Band Era, Big, 1932, 1935
Switzerland, 1499
Sword of Truth, The, 1804
Sylvain, Benito, 1904
Syria, 192 BCE, 1958
Syphilis, “Treatment” of,
     1932-1972
T
Taft, William Howard, Pres., 1904,
     1909
Tai Tsung, 627, 635
Talladega College, 1867
Tambo, Oliver R., 1960, 1967,
     1980
Tamerlane, 1369, 1395, 1405
Tanganyika (see Tanzania)
Tanganyika African National
     Union (TANU), 1977
Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1897,
     1937
Tanzania, 1905, 1922, 1961,
     1966, 1967, 1869, 1969, 1972,
     1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980
Tanzama Pipeline, 1968
Tasmania, 1777, 1803
   Genocide, 1876, (1551)
Tate, John, 1979
Tatum, Art, 1910, 1956
Taylor, Clarice, 1973
Taylor, Zachary, Pres., 1849
“Ten Thousand Greeks,” 401 BCE
Telamon, Battle of, 225 BCE
Telephone, Invention of, 1876,
      1887
Television, Cross-Atlantic, 1962
Telestar Satellite, 1962
Tembu People, 1980
Tennessee, 1862, 1863, 1864,
      1865, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1870,
      1874, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1882,
      1912, 1884, 1887, 1894, 1901,
      1908, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1927,
      1940, 1946, 1952, 1956, 1957,
      1960, 1968, 1974, 1975  
Tennis, Women, Black, 1957
Tenochtitlán, 1325
Tentative (see Slave Ships)
Terrorism, (1879), 1892, 1926,
     1962
   (see also Lynchings, Ku Klux
     Klan, Race Riots)
Texas, 1829, 1840, 1845, 1865,
     1868, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1880,
     1881, 1890, 1893, 1898, 1890,
     1893, 1898, 1903, 1906, 1913,
     1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921,
     1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1941,
     1942, 1943, 1947, 1952, 1956,
     1960, 1976
Théâtre des Champs Élysées,
     1918
Theatre Guild, 1943
Thebes, 680 BCE
Theodore of Tarsus, 668
Theodoric the Ostrogoth, 493
Theodosius the Great, 379, 392
Theresa, Maria, 1740, 1780
Third World, 1972, 1973, 1974,
     1976, 1978, 1979
   Revolutionary Movements, 1966
Thirteenth Amendment, 1865
Thirty Years’ War, 1618, 1634,
     1648
Thomas Edison Films, 1903
Thomas, Franklin, 1979
Thomas, Gerald E., 1974
Thomas, Tony, 1972
Thompson, Charles R., 1864
Thotmes III, (1950)
Thompson, William, 1951
Thurman, Howard, 1953
Tiberius, 37
Tiglath-Pileser III, 745 BCE,
      738 BCE, 722 BCE
Tilahun, Taye, 1979
Till, Emmett, 1955
Timbuktu, 1373, 1591, 1650
Titanic (see H.M.S. Titanic)
Tito, Josip Broz, 1979
Titus, 79
Togo(land), 1900, 1960, 1975,
     1976, 1979
Tolan, Michael, 1973
Tolbert, William Pres., 1980
Tombalbaye, F., 1975
Torrijos, Omar, Gen., 1972, 1974,
     1975
Tougaloo University, 1869
Toumontaine, Julian, 1829
Toure, Kwame, 1942, 1966
   (see also Carmichael,
     Stokeley)
Touré, Sékou, Pres., 1922, 1978,
     1979
Tours, Battle, of, 732
Townsend, Williard S., 1955
Traffic Light, Invention of, 1923
Trajan, 98
TransAfrica, 1980
Transkei Bantustan, 1976, 1980
Traore, Moussa, Pres., 1980
Treaty of Alfred & Guthrum, 886
Treaty of Madrid, 1670
Treaty of Passau, 1552
Treaty of Paris (American Revolu-
     tion), 1783
Treaty of Ratisbon, 1680
Treaty of Ryswick, 1492fn, 1680,
     1697
Treaty of San Stefano, 1875
Treaty of Tilsit, 1807
Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494
Treaty of Utrecht, 1713
Treaty of Vereeniging, 1902
Treaty of Vienna, 1815
Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
Treemonisha, 1975  
Trent, Council of, 1545
Trent, William, Jr., 1944
Trilateral Commission, 1976
Trinidad, 1837, 1839, 1843, 1942,
     1959, 1962, 1968, 1970, 1972,
     1975, 1976
   Labor, 1894
   Oil in, 1866
   Oil Field Riots, 1937
   Spanish in, 1530
Tripoli, 1801
Trotter, Wm. Monroe, 1901, 1905,
     1914
Troupe, Quincy, 1975
True Whig Party, 1980
Trujillo, Rafael, 1975
   (see also Dominican Republic)
Truman, Harry S., 1911, 1945,
     1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1975
   “Truman Doctrine,” 1947
Truth, Sojourner, 1843, 1850,
     1852, 1883, 1942
Truxton (Virginia), 1914, 1919
Tsar Paul, 1762
Tshombe, Moïse, 1980
Tubman, Harriet, 1849, 1913
Tucker, Delores, 1971
Tucker, William, 1624
Tunis, 800 BCE
Tunisia, 1881, 1956, 1966
Tupac Amaru, 1780-1781
Turfloop University, 1969
Turkey  (Turks), 565, 1071, 1453,
     1481, 1512, 1517, 1683, 1875,
     1912, 1922
Turman, Glynn, 1973
Turner, Henry McNeal, Biship,
     1834, 1893,  1894, 1901, 1915
Turner, James E., 1976
Turner, Nat, 1800, 1831
Turner, Thomas Wyatt, (1979)
Tuskegee Civic Association, 1957
Tuskegee Institute, 1881, 1912,
     1924, 1925, 1927, 1928,
     1929, 1932, 1952
       (see also B.T. Washington)
   Flying School, 1941, 1942
Tutankhamen, Pharaoh, 1925
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936,
     1938
Twenty-fifth Corps, 1865
Tyler, John, Pres., 1841
Tyler, Wat, 1381
Tyner, Jarvis, 1972
Typewriter, 1868
Tyson, Cicely, 1968, 1969
U
Uganda, 1862, 1890, 1963, 1965,
     1966, 1967, 1972, 1975, 1976,
     1979, 1980
Umkonto We Sizwe (see South
     Africa)
Underground Railroad, The, 1872
UNCF (see United Negro College
     Fund)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852, 1903,
     1927
UNIA, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920,
     1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1928,
     1934, 1938, 1975
   (see also Garvey, Marcus)
UNITA, 1975, 1979
Union of South Africa, (see South
      Africa)
Union Leagues, 1867
Union Pacific Railroad, 1869
Unions, Black Labor, 1863, 1869,
     1871, 1879, 1882, 1886, 1889,
     1893, 1894, 1898, 1900, 1907,
     1912, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919,
     1925, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1937,
     1943, 1948, 1963
United Arab Republic, 1953, 1958
United Black Appeal, 1970
United Black Fund, 1970
United Colored Socialists of Amer-
     ica, 1929
United Farm Workers, 1973
United Fruit Co., 1885, 1974
United Nations, 1945, 1975
   Congo, 1961
   Palestine, 1948, 1950
   San Francisco, 1945
   South Africa, 1974
   UNESCO, 1979
   We Charge Genocide, 1951
United Negro College Fund
     (UNCF), 1944
U.S. and Congo National Emigra-
     tion Co., 1894
U.S. and Pass Laws, 1921, 1926
U.S. Armed Forces
   Black  Generals, 1940, 1959,
     1975
   Black Pilots, 1941, 1942, 1943,
     1944, 1974
U.S. Army Nurses, 1918, 1941,
     1948
U.S. Constitutional Amendments,
     1865, 1868, 1869, 1870
U.S. Intervention in Central Amer-
      ica & the Caribbean, 1823,
     1840, 1846, 1854, 1890, 1898,
     1903, 1904, 1914, 1916, 1917,
     1934, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964,
     1965
U.S. Merchant Ships, Black
     Captains, 1942
U.S. Naval Academy, 1845
U.S. Navy, 1942, 1944, 1974,
     1975
U.S. Payroll, 1946
U.S. Population, 1920
U.S. Senate, 1963
   Africans in, 1841
U.S. States Colored Troops
     (USCT), 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866
Universal Adult Suffrage
   Guyana, 1945
   Trinidad, 1945
Universal Association for the Im-
     provement of Mankind, 1904
Universal Negro Improvement
     Assoc. & African Communities
     League  (see UNIA)
University College of the West
     Indies, 1948
University of Akron, 1870
University of Cincinnati, 1819
University of Maryland, 1935
University of Toledo, 1872, 1938
Up From Slavery, 1881, 1895,
     1900, 1913
Upper Volta, 1960, 1976
Urban II, 1095
Urban League (see National Urban
     League)
Urban Rebellions (see Protest De-
     monstrations, Race Riots)
Uruguay, 1842, 1975
Utah, 1847, 1896
Uytgeest, Van, 1626
V
Valmy, Battle of, 1792
Van Buren, Martin, Pres., 1837
Vandals, 337, 425, 429, 439, 455
van Rensburg, 1836
van Riebeeck, Jan, 1652, 1659
Vasco de Gama, 1497
Vashon, George, 1821, 1850
Vásquez de Ayllón, Lucas, 1526
Vassa, Gustavus (see Equiano,
     Olaudah)
Velasco, Juan, 1972
Venda Bantustan, 1976
Venda People (see Wars of Resis-
     tance)
Venezuela, 1783, 1811, 1816,
     1821, 1830, 1972, 1973, 1974,
     1975
Vermont, 1775, 1777, 1791
Veronese, Paul, 1528
Verwoerd, Hendrik F., 1960
Vesey, Denmark, 1822
Vicksburg, 1863, 1865, 1874
Victor Recording Co., 1887
Vienna, 1529, 1683
Vietnam War, 1946, 1962, 1965,
     1966, 1970, 1974
Vigilance Committees, 1814,
     1835, 1838, 1904, 1929
   (see also UNIA, NAACP, SNCC,
     CORE, Nation of Islam, SCLC,
     Black Panthers, Urban League,
     NBIPP)
Vilakazi, Herbert, 1980
Villon, François, 1431
Virgin Islands, U.S., 1493, 1733,
     1870, 1916, 1917, 1972, 1973
   Black Governor, 1971
   Citizenship, 1927
   Civil Rights, 1924
   English in, 1625, 1865
Virginia, 1583, 1606, 1619, 1624,
     1640, 1662, 1667, 1792, 1800,
     1809, 1830, 1831, 1833, 1841,
     1847, 1858, 1859, 1861, 1864,
     1865, 1870, 1877, 1880, 1881,
     1882, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1889,
     1890, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897,
     1901, 1903, 1908, 1914, 1918,
     1919, 1926, 1948, 1951, 1959,
      (1962), (1971)
   Poll Tax, 1966
   White Slaves, 1670
   Slave Code, 1705
   State Song, 1940
Virginia State College, 1882
Virginia Union University, 1865
Visigoths, 410, 425
Voting and Voting Rights, 1865,
    1870, 1871, 1882, 1890, 1894,
    1908, 1913, 1915, 1923, 1927,
    1933, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1960,
    1964, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1975
W
Walden, A.T., 1964
Walid I, 721
Walid II, 743
Walker, C.J., Madam (see Walker,
    Sarah Breedlove)
Walker, David, 1785, 1866
Appeal, 1829
Walker, Edward G., 1866
Walker, Edwin A., Gen., 1962
Walker, Maggie Lena, 1942
Walker, Margaret, 1942
Walker, Sarah Breedlove, 1867, 1919
Wallace, George C., Gov., 1963
Wallenstein, Albrecht Von, 1634
Waller, Fats, 1904, 1943
Wanamaker, Rodman, Musical
     Competition, 1927
Wankie, Battle of, 1967
War Bonds & Stamps, Black
     Purchasers, 1918
Ward, Erskine, 1974
Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 1817, 1839,
     1843
Warders, Jessie, 1966
Warfield, William, 1920, 1951
Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1926
Warner Brothers, 1938
Warner, Thomas, Sir, 1624
War of Austrian Succession, 1741
War of Spanish Succession, 1701
Wars of Resistance in South Africa
   KhoiKhoi, 1662, 1673
   Venda, 1898
   Xhosa, 1779, 1793, 1803, 1811,
     1818, 1834, 1846, 1850
War on Whites, (1979)
Washington, Booker T., (1551),
     1853, 1858, 1872, 1881, 1895,
     1896, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903,
     1904, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1926,
     1942, 1966
   Atlanta Cotton Exposition
     Speech, 1895
Washington, E.E., Rabbi, 1979
Washington and Lee University,
     1800
Washington, D.C., 1754, 1789, 1800,
     1807, 1814, 1819, 1830, 1831,
     1833, 1847, 1850, 1865, 1894,
     1898, 1901, 1904, 1909, 1910,
     1921, 1922, 1926, 1941, 1943,
     1950,  (1950), 1951, 1957, 1963,
     1968, 1970, 1976
   Segregation, 1951
   Wormley Hotel, 1877
Washington, George, Pres., 1775,
    1789
Washington, Madison, (1975)
Watergate, 1972
Waters, Ethel, 1900, 1953, 1959,
     1977
Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi, 1979
Wattles, Augustus, 1842
Watts Insurrection (see Protest
    Demonstrations, Race Riots)
Watts, Isaac, 1707
Weaver, Robert, Dr., 1961, 1966
Webb, James Morris, 1910
Webster’s Dictionary, 1828
Welcher, Paul, 1966
Wellington, Duke of, 1852
Welsing, Frances Cress, 1970
Wesley, Charles, 1891
West Indies, 1492, 1493, 1498,
     1502, 1522, 1530, 1533, 1566,
     1585, 1600, 1741, 1768, 1813,
     1831, 1838, 1843, 1898, 1930,
     1968
   (see also other headings, e.g.,
     Slavery, Sugar Trade, Haiti,
     Bustamante, Caribbean, Guyana,
     Slave Codes, Lynch, etc.)
   Africans in, 1540
   Chinese Immigration, 1843
   English in, 1624, 1625
   Immigrant Laborers, 1959
   Labor Unrest, 1930
   Trade Unionism, Legality of, 1943
   Working Class Leaders, 1929
West Indies Federation, 1977
West Point, Blacks at, 1870, 1877
West Virginia, 1870, 1875, 1891,
     1895, 1913, 1927
Westphalia, 1648
Western Empire, 476
Western Reserve College (Univer-
     sity), 1826, 1854, 1892
Western University, 1864
Western Sudan, 1591, 1650
Wharton, Clifton R., 1958, 1961
Wheatley, Phillis, 1761, 1773,
     1784, 1905, 1911
White, George H., 1901, 1918
White, John T., 1896
White, Joseph, 1932
White, Josh, 1908
White League, 1874
White Power Restored in South,
     1870, 1874, 1875, 1876
White Secret Societies, Amnesty
     for, 1872
White, Walter F., 1895, 1945,
     1955
White, William, 1787
Whitney, Eli, 1793
Wicker, Tom, 1971
Wilberforce University, 1811, 1856,
     1896, 1926
Wild Cat, 1850
Willhelm, Sidney, 1971
Wilkins, Roy, 1901, 1931, 1934,
     1955
Willard, Jess, 1915
William I, 1871
William II, 1888
William, Duke of Normandy,
     1066
William and Mary, Reign of,
    1688
Williams, Bert, 1876, 1914, 1922
Williams, Billy Dee, 1973
Williams, Daniel Hale “Dr. Dan,”
     1859, 1891, 1893, 1931
Williams, Eric, Dr., 1962, 1970
Williams, Francis, 1758
Williams, George W., 1883
Williams, Henry Sylvester, 1900
   (see also Pan-African Con-
     gress)
Williams, John A., 1924
Williams, Robert F., 1959, 1962,
     1975
Williams, Yancy, 1941
Williamson, Fred, 1972
Willis, Frank, 1972
Willis, John, 1962
Wills, J. Walter, 1920
Wilson, Dooley, 1943
Wilson, Woodrow, Pres., 1913,
     1916
Willamette Valley, 1843
Windhoek, 1975
Windhoek Massacre (see
     Massacres)
Windom, William, Sen., 1879
Window Cleaner, 1892
Winfield, Paul, 1973
Winston-Salem State Univer-
     sity, 1892
Women, in Banking, 1867
   Lawyers, 1872, 1966
Women’s Day, International, 1972
Wood, Robert H., 1870
Woods, Granville T., 1884, 1885,
     1887, 1905
Woodson, Carter G., 1875, 1916,
     1926, 1933, 1950
Wooing and Wedding of a Coon, The,
     1905
Wooster College, 1921
Workingmen’s Association, 1894
World Black & African Festival of
     Arts & Culture, 1975
World Council of Churches, 1980
“World Peace Jubilee,” 1872
World’s Columbian Exhibition, 1893
World’s Fair, New York, 1939
World War I, 1914, 1917, 1918
World War II, 1939, 1943, 1944,
     1945
Wounded Knee, 1973
WPA (Working People’s Alliance),
     1979, 1980
WPA (Work Projects Administra-
     tion), 1933, 1935
Wretched of the Earth, The, 1961
Wright, Jonathon J., 1870
Wright, Orville, 1903
Wright, Richard, 1908, 1935, 1938,
     1940, 1945, 1951, 1955, 1960
Wright State University, 1964
Wright, Theodore, Rev., 1837
Wu-Ti, 100 BCE
Wyoming, School Segreation,
     1873
Wycliffe, 1384, 1398, 1415
X
Xavier University (New Orleans),
     1925
X-Ray, Invention of, 1895
Xerxes the Great, 465 BCE
Xuma, A.B., Dr., 1940
Xuma, Naicker, Dadoo Pact, the,
     1947
Y
Yale University, 1975
Yanga, 1607-1611
“Yankee Doodle,” 178
Yarmuk, Battle of, 636
Yerby, Frank, 1916
Yette, Samuel F., 1971
YMCA, African Youth, 1909
Young, Andrew, 1976, 1977
Young, Charles R., Col., 1916, 1923
Young, Lester “Prez,” 1959
Young, Robert Alexander, 1829
Youngstown State University, 1908
Yuan Chwang, 629, 645
Yueh-Chi, the, 149 BCE
Z
Zaire, 1960, 1964, 1979, 1980
   (see also Congo)
Zama, Battle of, 202 BCE
Zambesi River, 1967
Zambia, 1924, 1964, 1966, 1967,
     1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1976,
     1979, 1980
   Portuguese in, 1967, 1968, 1969
ZANU (Zimbabwe African National
     Union), 1972, 1974, 1979, 1980
Zanzibar, 1840, 1976, 1980
   (see also Tanzania)
ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s
     Union), 1974, 1980
Zayd bin Harith, (1890)
Zenobia, Queen, 267, 272
Zimbabwe, 1480, 1505, 1629,
     1830, 1869, 1896, 1967, 1968,
     1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979,
     1980
Zinjantropus, 1959
Zionism, 1973
   (see also Israel)
Zulu People, 1819, 1880, 1887,
     1906
   (see also South Africa)
“Zumbi and the Republic of Os
     Palmares,” 1695
Zuni Pueblo, 1539


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