Some posts I have done or want to do:
- Black American history in 200 words or less
- 1600
- 1600s: Racism in the 1600s, plantation
- 1610s: Juan Rodriguez, 1619, Angela of Jamestown, Mbundu, tobacco, American slavery
- 1620s: Simon Congo
- 1630s:
- 1640s:
- 1650s: slave auction, Free Blacks
- 1660s: How Africans became Black, Royal African Company, slave trade, Middle Passage
- 1670s: Bacon’s Rebellion
- 1680s:
- 1690s: African Burial Ground (New York), Melungeons
- 1700
- 1700s: Racism in the 1700s, slave patrols, White racial frame, stereotype, One Drop Rule
- 1710s:
- 1720s:
- 1730s: Stono Rebellion
- 1740s:
- 1750s: blackface
- 1760s:
- 1770s: American Revolution, George Washington, Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley
- 1780s: US Constitution, three-fifths, 4th Amendment, Free African Society, the N-word
- 1790s: cotton gin, cotton, Underground Railroad, du Sable
- 1800
- 1800s: Racism in the 1800s, Sally Hemings
- 1810s: Colonial Marines, The Star-Spangled Banner, AME Church, Back to Africa
- 1820s: Liberia, Denmark Vesey
- 1830s: Nat Turner, Walker’s “Appeal”, abolitionists
- 1840s: minstrel show, J. Marion Sims, North Star, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman
- 1850s: Fugitive Slave Act, Samuel George Morton, polygenism, drapetomania, Sojourner Truth, Dred Scott, John Brown
- 1860s: Lincoln, American Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Black Union soldiers, Draft Riots, Henry Garnet, 40 acres and a mule, Homestead Act, Ku Klux Klan, 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
- 1870s: Jim Crow, slavery by another name
- 1880s: Tuskegee Institute, lynching
- 1890s: The Nadir of American race relations, Anna Julia Cooper, Plessy v Ferguson, Ida B. Wells, Wilmington Riot
- 1900
- 1900s: Racism in the 1900s, scientific racism, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, NAACP, Madam C.J. Walker, Matthew Henson.
- 1910s: “The Birth of a Nation”, Great Migration, Red Summer, Great Migration
- 1920s: Tulsa Riot, The New Negro, Harlem Renaissance, blues, jazz, Josephine Baker, Arthur Schomburg, Marcus Garvey, Negro Doll Factory, Oscar Micheaux.
- 1930s: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis.
- 1940s: Double V, Tuskegee airmen, Tuskegee Experiment, R&B, GI Bill, FHA loans, Jackie Robinson, Pan-Africanism, Paul Robeson, White flight, redlining, Clark Doll Experiment.
- 1950s: Brown v Board, Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Civil Rights Movement, Dorothy Dandridge, Lorraine Hansberry, soul music.
- 1960s: Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, Medgar Evers, SNCC, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act, Selma, Voting Rights Act, Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, Afro, Black is beautiful, Afrocentricity, Black Panther Party, Loving v Virginia, Detroit Riot, Thurgood Marshall, Black Barbie, Southern Strategy, Cointelpro, Fred Hampton.
- 1970s: “Shaft”, blaxpoitation, Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm, heroin, busing, Boston Busing Riot, urban music, “Roots”, Louis Farrakhan, Combahee River Collective.
- 1980s: hip hop, “The Cosby Show”, gentrification, crack, War on Drugs, Spike Lee, Oprah, Toni Morrison, Flo Jo, Central Park 5.
- 1990s: Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, Crime Bill, mass incarceration, racial profiling.
- 2000
- 2000s: Racism in the 2000s, Condoleezza Rice, Katrina, Tyler Perry, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Great Black Depression.
- 2010s: misogynoir, Trayvon Martin, Shelby County v Holder, gerrymandering, voter suppression, school resegregation, Ferguson Riot, Charleston Massacre, Black Lives Matter, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Colin Kaepernick, NMAAHC, “Black Panther”, cannabis, racial wealth gap, reparations.
- 2020s: The coronavirus and Black Americans, Kamala Harris
- 2030s:
- 2040s: 2042
Suggestions welcomed!
– Abagond, 2021.
See also:
- The history of Black history
- Black History posts – an older version of this post
- US
- African Diaspora
- Black Brazil
- Black Canada
- Black France
- Black Britain
- Africa: the last 13,000 years
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Very helpful in getting an overview. I’m constantly trying to put black experience in the front of my mind to understand who we all are as Americans. I’m white and grew up in the south with African American nurses, housekeeper and cooks with that unspoken layer that I was better than they were. I knew I wasn’t. I learned instead I was them and if skin color made you a lesser human what sin would be revealed about me that I would become black. I’m referred to now as the family empath. See webpage.
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I learned instead I was them…
Hmmm. You are “them”, how exactly? Besides being made of blood, bone and sinew, what makes you believe you are them (us)?
if skin color made you a lesser human what sin would be revealed about me that I would become black
What does this even mean? Why on earth would your sin make you Black?
I’m referred to now as the family empath.
So, by you realizing you are no better than Black people, they’ve dubbed you the family empath? I’m curious to know how they see themselves since this distinction seems to be something they aren’t? With all of their ideas about being “better than” and perhaps even sin making one Black (I’m assuming here because I still don’t know what you meant by that) would they or you then admit they are racist? And, if so, how much of that racist upbringing lives on to this day in you?
By the way, I looked at your webpage and the link that took me to Shared History. Interesting.
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