This original, eight-part series documents Black Achievement in American history, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events
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BLA
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Settling the New World and the Founding of the United States
1619 - 1621 Blacks Arrive at Jamestown
1705 The Virginia General Assembly Passes the Slave Codes
1762 Entrepreneur Samuel Fraunces Opens New York City's Most cherished Revolutionary War Site: The F
1770 Crispus Attucks and the Black Patriots
BLA-001
$27.50/yr
Emergence of the Black Hero
1772 - Chicago is Settled by Jean DuSable
1776 - Lemuel Haynes Helps Lay the Foundation for Abolition
1791 - The First Black Man of Science, Benjamin Banneker, Surveys Washington, D.C.
1821 - African Grove Theatre Founded in New York
1822 - Denmark Vesey and the Slave Revolts
1823 - Legendary Mountain Man James Beckwourth Enters the Rockies
1849 - Harriet Tubman Uses Underground Railroad to Become Free
BLA-002
$27.50/yr
The Fight for Freedom
1851 - Sojourner Truth Delivers Famous "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech
1854 - First Black University Founded: Lincoln University
1855 - Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom
1857 - Dred Scott Decision Helps Trigger the Civil War
1863 - Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation
1863 - Black Regiment Storms Fort Wagner in the Civil War
1865 - 1869 - - 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Establish Civil Rights for All
BLA-003
$27.50/yr
Blacks Enter the Gilded Age
1875 - Robert Smalls, Former Slave, Elected to House
1878 - The Black Cowboy and George McJunkin
1881 - Booker T. Washington Opens Tuskegee Institute
1884 - T. Thomas Fortune Prophesies the Long and Bitter Struggle for Equality
1887 - Granville T. Woods, Called the "Black Edison," Patents the Induction Telegraph System
1893 - Ida B. Wells - Barnett Crusades Against Black Lynching in America
1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson Case Upholds Segregation
BLA-004
$27.50/yr
The Foundation for Equality
1904 - Scott Joplin and Ma Rainey Initiate the Merger of Two Cultures
1909 - Matthew Henson Discovers the North Pole
1909 - W.E.B. Du Bois Founds the NAACP
1924 - George Washington Carver, Renaissance Man
1925 - Alain Locke Leads Harlem Renaissance
1926 - Satchel Paige Stars in the National Negro Baseball League
BLA-005
$27.50/yr
Depression and War
1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune: American Woman of the 20th Century
1936 - 38 - Jesse Owens And Joe Louis debunk Hitler's Claim of Aryan superiority
1939 - Hattie McDaniel Wins the Oscar
1940 - First Black General, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., is Stepping Stone to Desegregation of U.S. Army
1943 - Duke Ellington's Band Performs "Black, Brown and Beige" at Carnegie Hall
BLA-006
$27.50/yr
Civil Rights
1950 - Ralph Bunche Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks Becomes the First Black Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
1955 - Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat to a White Passenger on a Montgomery Bus
1956 - Althea Gibson, First Black Woman To Win a Tennis Grand Slam Event
1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun is Produced
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His I have a Dream Speech
BLA-007
$27.50/yr
A New Age
1967 - Muhammad Ali Refuses Induction into the U.S. Army on Religious Grounds
1967 - Thurgood Marshall, First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1977 - Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of An American Family Appears on TV
2001 - Colin Powell Appointed Secretary of State
2004 - Neil deGrasse Tyson Becomes Astrophysics' Superstar
BLA-008
$27.50/yr
The Barack Obama Era
In the first two decades of the 21st Century a new Black identity was taking shape based not on slavery or the struggle for equal rights but on excellence, on African Americans’ growing role in American politics, on new forms of literature and on a rising Black entrepreneurial class that has found a home in Silicon Valley.
