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| January 22, 1800 |
Nat
Turner, leader of the Virgina slave revolt, born |
| May 9, 1800 |
John Brown,
abolitionist and martyr of the Harper's Ferry Insurrection, born |
| August 30, 1800 |
Gabriel Prosser's
VA slave revolt is betrayed |
| December 17, 1802 |
Henry Adams, teacher and minister, born |
| January 5, 1804 |
The Ohio legislature passed "Black Laws" designed
to restrict the legal rights of free blacks. These laws were part of the trend to
increasingly severe restrictions on all blacks in both North and South before the Civil
War |
| February 21, 1804 |
Lemuel
Haynes, first Black minister to serve for a White congregation, becomes the first
Black person to receive an honorary degree (an MA) from a White college (Middlebury
College) |
| March 28, 1804 |
Ohio passes law restricting the movement of Blacks |
| June 17, 1804 |
James Weldon Johnson,
co-author of the Black National
Anthem and the first Black person admitted to the Florida Bar, born |
| March 17, 1806 |
Norbert
Rillieux, inventor, born |
| September 9, 1806 |
Sarah Mapps Douglass,
abolitionist, born |
| October 26, 1806 |
Benjamin
Banneker, inventor, mathematician and one of the planners of what is now Washington
DC, dies |
| March 2, 1807 |
Congress declares importation of slaves into US jurisdiction
illegal as of the new year |
| May 11, 1807 |
Ira
Aldridge, actor, born |
| January 1, 1808 |
The African Benevolent Society for Education is found |
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| August 4, 1810 |
Robert
Purvis, abolitionist, born |
| February 24, 1811 |
Bishop Daniel A
Payne, reformer and educator of AME Church, born |
| June 14, 1811 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
White abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, born |
| May 6, 1812 |
Martin R Delaney,
ethnologist, army officer and Black nationalist, born |
| May 28, 1814 |
Daniel Reaves Goodloe, emancipatist, born |
| April 9, 1816 |
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized as the
first independent black denomination in the United States |
| September 9, 1816 |
John Gregg Fee, Kentucky abolitionist and founder of Berea
College, born |
| February 14, 1817 |
Frederick Douglass born |
| August 18, 1818 |
General Andrew Jackson defeated a force of Native Americans
and African-Americans to end the First Seminole War |
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| February 6, 1820 |
First organized emigration of U.S. Blacks back to Africa,
from New York to Sierra leone, takes place |
| May 15, 1820 |
US Congress declares foreign slave trade an act of piracy
punishable by death |
| March 3, 1821 |
Thomas Jennings becomes the fist Black American to receive a
patent, for a dry-cleaning process |
| March 14, 1821 |
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded |
| October 7, 1821 |
William
Still, chronicler of The Underground Railroad Records, born |
| May 30, 1822 |
The Denmark Vesey conspiracy
was betrayed in Charleston, South Carolina. It is claimed that some 5,000 blacks were
prepared to rise in July |
| June 18, 1822 |
Denmark Vesey, slave
revolt leader, arrested in Charleston, SC |
| July 15, 1822 |
Public schools for Blacks open in Philadelphia |
| August 15, 1824 |
Liberia established by freed American slaves |
| March 16, 1827 |
John
Russwurm and Samuel Cornish founded Freedom's Journal, the first Black newspaper |
| September 1829 |
David Walker's militant antislavery pamphlet, An Appeal to
the Colored People of the World, was in circulation in the South. This work was the first
of its kind by a black |
| Sept. 20-24, 1829 |
The first National Negro Convention met in Philadelphia |
| December 14, 1829 |
John Langston, Congressman, born |
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| June 2, 1830 |
James Augustine Healey, first Black Catholic Bishop in the
United States, born |
| August 20, 1830 |
Richard Allen chairs the
first National Negro Convention in Philadelphia |
| September 15, 1830 |
First National Negro Convention held in Philadelphia, PA |
| September 20, 1830 |
First Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott
slave-produced goods |
| January 2, 1831 |
William Lloyd Garrison
begins publishing The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper |
| January 6, 1831 |
The World Anti-Slavery Convention opens in London |
| March 26, 1831 |
Richard
Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies |
| May 28, 1831 |
Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railroad conductor, born |
| June 6, 1831 |
People of Color Convention held for the first time |
| August 21-22, 1831 |
Nat
Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton, VA that kills 55 Whites |
| November 11, 1831 |
Nat
Turner, leader of a Virginia slave revolt, hanged |
| March 17, 1833 |
The Phoenix Society founded |
| May 21, 1833 |
Black students enroll in classes at Oberlin College, Ohio |
| August 1, 1834 |
Slavery declared unlawful in British Empire |
| October 14, 1834 |
Henry Blair patents his corn-planting machine |
| December 20, 1834 |
Mother Matelda Beasley, nun, born |
| January 8, 1836 |
Fannie M Jackson, educator and first Black woman college
graduate in the US, born |
| March 3, 1836 |
Jefferson Franklin Long, congressman, born |
| March 26, 1836 |
George Alexander McGuire, bishop, born |
| November 5, 1836 |
Theo Wright becomes the first Black recipient of a Theology
Degree in the US |
| March 24, 1837 |
Canada legally recognizes Black suffrage |
| April 19, 1837 |
Cheyney State College, one of the oldest Black colleges in
the US, founded in its orignal form as a school for Black boys |
| May 10, 1837 |
PBS Pinchback,
first Black state governor, born |
| November 7, 1837 |
Elijah
Lovejoy, newspaperman, killed defending his newspaper from a pro-slavery mob |
| September 3, 1838 |
Frederick
Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor |
| July 1839 |
The slaves carried on the Spanish ship, Amistad, took over the
vessel and sailed it to Montauk on Long Island. They eventually won their freedom in a
case taken to the Supreme Court |
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| May 16, 1840 |
James Milton Turner, educator, born |
| June 1, 1843 |
Sojourner
Truth begins travel as an abolitionist speaker |
| May 2, 1844 |
Elijah
"The Real" McCoy, inventor and holder of over fifty patents, born |
| April 29, 1845 |
Macon B Allen and Robert Morris Jr, first Blacks to practice
law in the US, open practice |
| September 5, 1846 |
John W Cromwell, Secretary of the American Negro Academy,
born |
| January 20, 1847 |
WR Pettiford, founder of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, born |
| April 28, 1847 |
George B Vashon, first Black bachelor's from Oberlin, becomes
first Black American to enter the NY Bar |
| September 10, 1847 |
John R Lynch, first Black speaker at a Republican National
Convention, born |
| December 3, 1847 |
Frederick
Douglass, along with Martin R Delaney,
start The North Start, an anti-slavery paper |
| September 4, 1848 |
Louis
Latimer, inventor and engineer, born |
| September 16, 1848 |
Slavery abolished in all French territories |
| May 7, 1849 |
Blind Tom Bethune, pianist and composer, born |
| June 17, 1849 |
Thomas Ezekiel Miller, congressman, born |
| July 1849 |
Harriet Tubman escaped
from slavery. She would return South at least twenty times, leading over 300 slaves to
freedom |
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| February 27, 1850 |
Charlotte Ray, first Black female lawyer, born |
| September 18, 1850 |
Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of
the Compromise of 1850 |
| January 25, 1851 |
Sojourner
Truth addresses the first Black Women's Rights Convention |
| March 20, 1852 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
White abolitionist, publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| January 1, 1853 |
Lincoln University, the oldest Historically Black University
in the US, incorporated |
| February 10, 1853 |
Joseph Charles Rice, educator, born |
| March 10, 1853 |
Hallie Quinn Brown, women's right activist, born |
| April 20, 1853 |
Harriet Tubman
starts working on the Underground Railroad |
| January 1, 1854 |
Ashmum Institute, the precursor of Lincoln University, was
chartered at Oxford, Pennsylvania |
| January 18, 1856 |
Dr
Daniel Hale Williams, pioneer in surgery, born |
| April 5, 1856 |
Booker
T Washington, educator, born |
| April 23, 1856 |
Granville T Woods, inventor of over 40 products, born |
| August 20, 1856 |
Wilberforce University established in Ohio |
| February 16, 1857 |
Frederick
Douglass, orator and activist, elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust |
| March 6, 1857 |
The
Dred Scott decision, asserting that Blacks could not be citizens of the United States,
even if they were citizens of their states, handed down by the Supreme Court |
| January 30, 1858 |
William
Wells Brown, novelist and dramatist, publishes first Black drama, Leap to Freedom |
| June 21, 1859 |
Henry O Tanner,
artist, born |
| September 7, 1859 |
John Merrick, coorganizer of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, born |
| October 16, 1859 |
Harper's
Ferry Insurrection begins |
| October 19, 1859 |
Byrd Prillerman, co-founder of Virginia State College, born |
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| December 20, 1860 |
South Carolina secedes from the Union, beginning the rumbles
that would become the Civil War |
| April 12, 1861 |
Civil War begins at Fort
Sumter in Charleston, SC |
| July 22, 1861 |
Abraham Lincoln reads the first draft of Emancipation Proclamation to the
cabinet |
| August 23, 1861 |
James Stone of Ohio enlisted to become the first black to
fight for the Union during the Civil War. He was very light skinned and was married to a
white woman. His racial identity was revealed after his death in 1862 |
| September 17, 1861 |
American Missonary Association school established in Fortress
Monroe, VA |
| September 17, 1861 |
Hampton Institute founded |
| September 25, 1861 |
Secretary of Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves as Union
sailors |
| April 16, 1862 |
Slavery ended in Washington DC |
| May 9, 1862 |
Slaves in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina are freed |
| June 1, 1862 |
Slavery abolished in all United States possessions |
| June 3, 1862 |
Haiti recognized as a nation by the United States |
| June 3, 1862 |
Liberia recognized as a nation by the United States |
| July 16, 1862 |
Ida B Wells,
reformer who first gathered statistical records on lynchings in the US, born |
| July 17, 1862 |
Congress allowed the enlistment of blacks in the Union Army.
Some black units precede this date, but they were disbanded as unofficial. Some 186,000
blacks served; of these 38,000 died |
| January 1, 1863 |
The
Emancipation Proclamation |
| January 26, 1863 |
54th Regiment, a Black infantry unit, formed |
| June 2, 1863 |
Harriet Tubman
leads Union Army guerillas into Maryland and frees more than 700 slaves |
| September 22, 1863 |
Mary Church Terrell, first Black person to serve on the DC
board of education, born |
| January 10, 1864 |
George Washington Carver,
scientist and discoverer of over 300 products from the peanut and sweet potato, may have
been born (Carver was apparently born a slave, and we don't know even the year of his
birth;however, it seems to have been between 1858 and 1865) |
| February 4, 1864 |
The 24th
Amendment, abolishing the poll tax, ratified |
| April 16, 1864 |
Flora Batson, soprano-baritone singer, born |
| June 14, 1864 |
Black soldiers win Congressional approval for equal pay |
| June 25, 1864 |
Abraham Lincoln signs bill providing schools for Black
children |
| July 21, 1864 |
The New Orleans Tribune, first daily Black newspaper, is
published in English and French |
| March 2, 1865 |
Freedman's Bureau for Black Education founded |
| May 5, 1865 |
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr, activist, born |
| June 19, 1865 |
Juneteenth
begins when slaves in south Texas first hear about the Emancipation Proclamation, over two
years after the fact |
| August 8, 1865 |
Matthew A Henson,
explorer and first to reach the North Pole, born |
| September 19, 1865 |
Atlanta University founded |
| November 20, 1865 |
Howard University founded |
| November 21, 1854 |
Shaw University founded |
| December 18, 1865 |
The 13th
Amendment, abolishing slavery, ratified |
| 1866 |
Edward G. Walker and Charles L. Mitchell were the first
blacks to sit in an American legislature, that of Massachusetts |
| January 9, 1866 |
Fisk University founded |
| February 6, 1867 |
The Peabody Fund is established to promote Black education in
the South |
| February 14, 1867 |
Morehouse College founded as Augusta Institute |
| August 10, 1867 |
Ira Aldridge, actor, dies |
| September 1, 1867 |
Robert T Freeman becomes the first Black person to graduate
from Harvard Dental School |
| September 26, 1867 |
Maggie L Walker, business and civic leader, born |
| December 23, 1867 |
Madame C J Walker, probably the first Black millionare, born |
| February 23, 1868 |
WEB Dubois,
activist, born |
| June 13, 1868 |
Oscar J Dunn elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana |
| July 6, 1868 |
The South Carolina House became the first and only
legislature to have a black majority, 87 blacks to 40 whites. Whites did continue to
control the Senate and became a majority in the House in 1874 |
| July 28, 1868 |
The 14th
Amendment, making Blacks citizens, adopted |
| November 9, 1868 |
Medical School at Howard University opens with eight students |
| November 24, 1868 |
Scott Joplin,
composer and musician, born |
| December 8, 1868 |
Henry Hugh Proctor, writer, born |
| January 13, 1869 |
Convention of the Colored National Labor Union, the first
Black labor convention, held |
| February 12, 1869 |
Issac Burns Murphy, jockey, dies |
| June 24, 1869 |
Mary
Ellen Pleasant, abolitionist, officially becomes Voodoo Queen in San Francisco |
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| January 20, 1870 |
Hiram
Rhodes Revels elected senator (from Mississippi), becoming the first Black US Senator
in the US |
| February 3, 1870 |
The 15th
Amendment, providing for Black suffrage, ratified |
| March 30, 1870 |
The 15th
Amendment, giving Blacks (well, Black men) the right to vote adopted |
| March 31, 1870 |
Thomas Mundy Petersen, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, becomes
the first Black person to vote as a result of the adoption of the 15th amendment |
| May 31, 1870 |
Congress passes first Civil Rights Enforcement Act |
| December 25, 1870 |
Henry McKee Minton, physician, born |
| January 16, 1871 |
Jefferson
Franklin Long takes oath of office as first Black Congressman from Georgia |
| February 1, 1871 |
Jefferson
Franklin Long becomes first Black person to speak in the House of Representatives as a
congressman |
| May 12, 1871 |
Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, KY,
following sit-in staged by a Black teenager |
| January 29, 1872 |
Franics L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina |
| March 19, 1872 |
TJ Boyd patents an apparatus for detaching horses from
carriages |
| March 26, 1872 |
Thomas J Martin patents the fire extinguisher |
| April 7, 1872 |
William Monroe
Trotter, civil rights leader and editor of The Boston Guardian, born |
| April 23, 1872 |
Charlotte Ray, first Black
female lawyer, becomes the first Black woman admitted to practice before the District
Supreme Court |
| June 27, 1872 |
Paul
Laurence Dunbar, poet and novelist, born |
| October 1, 1872 |
Morgan State College founded in Maryland |
| October 5, 1872 |
Booker T Washington,
educator, leaves Malden, West VA to enter Hampton Institute |
| October 21, 1872 |
John H Conyers becomes first African American to enter the US
Naval Academy |
| December 9, 1872 |
PBS Pinchback
serves as governor of Louisana, becoming the first Black state governor |
| January 13, 1873 |
PBS Pinchback
ends service as governor of Louisana |
| March 8, 1873 |
PBS Pinchback,
first Black state governor, is denied his senate seat by the Senate |
| August 11, 1873 |
J Rosamond Johnson, actor and co-composer of Lift Every Voice
And Sing, born |
| November 16, 1873 |
WC
Handy, father of the Blues, born in Florence, AL |
| July 31, 1874 |
Father Patrick Francis Healey, first Black man to recieve a
PhD, named President of Georgetown University |
| August 1, 1874 |
Charles Clinton Spaulding, businessman, born |
| 1875 |
Tennessee passed a law requiring segregation in railroad
cars. By 1907 all Southern states had passed similar laws |
| March 1, 1875 |
Congress passed a Civil Rights Bill which banned
discrimination in places of public accommodation. The Supreme Court overturned the bill in
1883. |
| May 17, 1875 |
Oliver
Lewis wins first Kentucky Derby |
| June 10, 1875 |
James Augustine Healey becomes first Black Catholic Bishop in
the United States |
| July 10, 1875 |
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, born |
| December 19, 1875 |
Carter G
Woodson, the father of Black history, born |
| July 4, 1876 |
EM
Bannister, African painter, exhibits Under The Oaks at the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelpha and is awarded the gold medal |
| March 3, 1877 |
Garrett
T Morgan, invenor, born |
| March 17, 1877 |
Clark College granted charter |
| June 9, 1877 |
Meta-Vaux Warick Fuller, sculptor, born |
| June 15, 1877 |
Henry O Flipper
becomes first Black graduate of West Point |
| March 31, 1878 |
Jack Johnson, first Black
heavyweight champion, born |
| May 7, 1878 |
JR Winters patents the fire escape |
| May 25, 1878 |
Bill
"Bojangles" Robinson, dancer and entertainer, born |
| November 8, 1878 |
Marshall Walter
"Major" Taylor, the world's fastest bicycle racer for 12 years, born in
Indianapolis |
| December 1, 1878 |
Arthur Spingarn, founder of the NAACP, born |
| August 27, 1879 |
Robert Lee Van, publisher, born |
| November 4, 1879 |
T Elkins patents the refrigerating apparatus |
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| July 27, 1880 |
AP Abourne, inventor, awarded patent for refining coconut oil |
| August 10, 1880 |
Clarence C White, composer and violinist, dies |
| April 11, 1881 |
Spelman College founded |
| July 4, 1881 |
Tuskegee Institue opened by Booker T Washington |
| September 13, 1881 |
Louis Latimer patents an electric lamp with a carbon filament |
| July 16, 1882 |
V A Johnson, first Black female to argue before the US
Supreme Court, born |
| February 7, 1883 |
Eubie Blake, pianist, born in Baltimore |
| March 19, 1883 |
Jan Matzeliger invents the first machine to manufacture an
entire shoe |
| August 14, 1883 |
Ernest E Just, biologist and pioneer of cell divsion, born |
| November 26, 1883 |
Sojourner
Truth, abolitionist and orator, dies |
| December 22, 1883 |
Arthur Wergs Mitchell, politician, born |
| April 24, 1884 |
The Medico-Chirurgical Society, the oldest Black medical
association in the US, formed in Washington DC |
| September 9, 1884 |
John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention |
| November 6, 1884 |
William
Wells Brown, novelist and dramatist, dies |
| January 24, 1885 |
Martin R Delaney,
ethnologist, army officer and Black nationalist, dies |
| June 8, 1886 |
The First Civil Rights Act passed |
| June 29, 1886 |
James Van Der Zee, photographer, born in Lenox MA |
| September 13, 1886 |
Alain L Locke, philospher and first Black Rhodes Scholar,
born |
| September 25, 1886 |
Peter
"The Black Prince" Jackson wins the Australian heavyweight title, becoming
the first Black man to win a national boxing crown |
| August 17, 1887 |
Marcus
Garvey, Black Nationalist, born |
| October 7, 1887 |
Sargent
Johnson, sculptor, born |
| October 11, 1887 |
A Miles patents the elevator |
| November 15, 1887 |
Granville
T Woods patents this Synchronous Multiplier Railway Telgraph |
| May 14, 1888 |
Slavery abolished in Brazil |
| January 23, 1889 |
Dr Daniel
Hale Williams, pioneer in surgery, founds Provident Hospital in Chicago, IL |
| April 15, 1889 |
A
Philip Randolph, activist and labor leader, born |
| June 18, 1889 |
WH Richardson, inventor, patents children's carriage |
| September 16, 1889 |
Claude A Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press, born |
| September 16, 1889 |
William Foster, Negro Baseball League player, born |
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| January 7, 1890 |
WB Purvis, inventor, patents the fountain pen |
| January 12, 1890 |
Mordecai W Johnson, educator, born |
| March 31, 1890 |
George "Little Chocolate" Dixon, the first Black
world champion in boxing, knocks out Cal McCarthy to become the first Black man to hold an
American title in any sport |
| November 11, 1890 |
D McCree patents the portable fire escape |
| July 14, 1891 |
J Standard, inventor, awarded patent for his refrigerator |
| September 21, 1891 |
FW Leslie, inventor, patents the envelope seal |
| October 27, 1891 |
DB Downing, inventor, patents his street letter box |
| November 10, 1891 |
Granville T Woods patents the electric railway |
| December 2, 1891 |
Charles Wesley, historian, born |
| June 7, 1892 |
GJ Sampson receives patent for clothes dryer |
| June 7, 1892 |
Homer A
Plessy refuses to move to segregated railroad coach in New Orleans, initiating Plessy
v Ferguson |
| August 13, 1892 |
First issue of the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper |
| October 24, 1892 |
25,000 Black workers strike in New Orleans |
| December 1, 1892 |
Minnie Evans, painter, born |
| December 6, 1892 |
Theodore Lawless, medicine pioneer, born |
| December 27, 1892 |
Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith) defeats Livingstone
College, in first intercollegiate football game between historically Black colleges |
| December 30, 1892 |
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes the first Black medical
journal |
| January 26, 1893 |
Bessie
Coleman, first Black American woman aviator, born |
| May 4, 1893 |
Cowboy Bill Pickett earns his title as inventor of "bull
dogging" |
| July 9, 1893 |
Dr Daniel
Hale Williams performs first succesful open heart surgery without anesthesia at
Provident Hospital in Chicago |
| October 31, 1893 |
William Henry Lewis,
football player, named All-American |
| November 22, 1893 |
Alrutheus A Taylor, teacher and historian, born |
| June 20, 1894 |
Dr Lloyd A Hall, pioneer in food chemistry, born in Illinois |
| August 29, 1894 |
E Franklin Fraiser, sociologist, born |
| May 11, 1895 |
William Still, composer, born |
| July 29, 1895 |
First National Convention of Black Women held in Boston MA |
| August 1, 1895 |
Benjamin E Mays, renowed educator and former president of
Morehouse College, born |
| September 3, 1895 |
Charles Houston, NAACP leader, born |
| September 5, 1895 |
George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South
Carolina |
| September 18, 1895 |
Booker T. Washington delivered
the "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the Cotton States International Exposition in
Atlanta, Georgia |
| November 26, 1895 |
National Negro Medical Association founded |
| March 17, 1896 |
CB Scott, inventor, patents the street sweeper |
| April 15, 1896 |
Booker T Washington,
educator, receives an honorary degree from Harvard University |
| May 18, 1896 |
Supreme Court upholds the "Seperate But Equal"
doctrine in education and public accomodations in Plessy v Ferguson |
| July 21, 1896 |
Mary Church Terrell founds National Association of Colored
Women in Washington, DC |
| October 31, 1896 |
Ethel
Waters, actress and singer, born |
| November 3, 1896 |
JH Hunter patents the portable weighing scales |
| May 13, 1897 |
Sidney Bechet, jazz clarinetist, born |
| August 4, 1897 |
Henry Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for
Georgia |
| August 17, 1897 |
WB Purvis, inventor, patents the electric railway switch |
| October 10, 1887 |
Elijah Muhammad, activst and religious leader of the Nation
of Islam, born |
| November 23, 1897 |
Andrew J Beard patents the jerry coupler, still used today to
connect railroad cars |
| November 23, 1897 |
JL Love patents the pencil sharpener |
| April 9, 1898 |
Paul Robeson,
actor, singer, athelete and activist, born |
| May 27, 1898 |
Victoria E Matthews, educator, born |
| June 10, 1898 |
Hattie
McDaniel, first Black person to win an Oscar (for Best Supporting Actress in Gone With
The Wind, 1940), born |
| October 20, 1898 |
John Merrick organizes North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company |
| December 22, 1898 |
Dr Chancellor Williams, historian and author of Destruction
of Black Civilization, born |
| December 24, 1898 |
Irwin C Mollison, first Black judge of the Customs Court,
born |
| April 1, 1899 |
John Merrick opens North Carolina Mutual for business |
| April 11, 1899 |
Percy L Julian, chemist whose research helped create drugs
for treatment of arthritis, born |
| April 29, 1899 |
"Duke"
Ellington, musician and composer, born |
| May 9, 1899 |
AJ Burr patents the lawn mower |
| June 23, 1899 |
Pvt George Wanton cited for bravery at Tayabacoa Cuba in the
Spanish-American War |
| July 1, 1899 |
Thomas
Dorsey, the Father of Gospel Music, born in Villa Rica, GA |
| October 10, 1899 |
IR Johnson patents the bicycle frame |
| December 12, 1899 |
George F Grant, dentist, receives a patent for the wooden
golf tee |
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