*On this date in 1874, the Order of the Eastern Star was created. This is the oldest sorority-based Black women’s organization in America....
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Tue, 1874-12-01
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Mon, 1875-05-17
On this date in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run with a Black man as the winning jockey.
He (Oliver Lewis) rode three-year-old...
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Wed, 1875-09-01
*On this date in 1875, White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City, Mississippi. The riot happened because of the pressure on White...
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Tue, 1875-11-02
*On this date in 1875, The Mississippi Plan went into effect. Their state government was trying to prevent Black political participation using...
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Tue, 1875-11-16
On this date in 1875, Ethiopia won the Battle of Gundet over Egypt. This conflict was carefully observed in Black America due to a growing black...
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Wed, 1876-05-03
*On this date in 1876, a race riot happened in Indianapolis, Indiana over voting rights.
Long after the 15th Amendment to the...
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Thu, 1877-10-04
On this date in 1877, the Registry celebrates the town of Nicodemus, Kansas, a brief haven for many Blacks from the old confederacy long before...
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Wed, 1877-12-26
Jim Crow Laws are featured on this date. These were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the American South between the end of the...
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Sat, 1879-01-11
On this date in 1879 the Zulu-British War began.
The Zulu kingdom, centered on the southeast coast of southern Africa between the...
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Fri, 1879-02-28
*On this date in 1879, an exodus from slavery after reconstruction began in earnest. More than 900 Black families from Mississippi reached St....
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Wed, 1882-10-18
This date's Registry looks at the origins of the Chanteys in 1882. A Chantey is a style of choral singing associated with black slave labor in...
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Tue, 1883-03-20
*On this date in 1883, an African-American inventor patented the first shoe lasting machine.
Jan Matzeliger from Dutch Guiana...
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Thu, 1885-06-25
On this date in 1885, Samuel David Ferguson was consecrated as bishop on June 24, 1885 (Saint John the Baptist's Feast Day), at Grace Church, New...
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Sun, 1888-05-13
On this date in 1888, Brazil abolished slavery.
During the 19th century, Europe exported two dynasties across the Atlantic to America....
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Tue, 1890-08-12
*On this date in 1890, The Mississippi Constitutional Convention began systematic exclusion of Blacks from the politics of South.
The...
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Sat, 1892-02-13
*On this date in 1892 the first African-American performers appeared at Carnegie Hall.
The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with...
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Wed, 1892-03-09
*On this date in 1892, three Black businessmen were lynched in Memphis.
Following this incident, Black journalist Ida Wells wrote an...
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Wed, 1892-05-11
On this date in 1892, an African American became the youngest rider ever to win the Kentucky Derby.
Alonzo “Lonnie” Clayton, 15 years old...
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Thu, 1892-06-02
*On this date in 1892, a 30-year-old Black shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad...
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Sun, 1893-07-09
On this date in 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.
Dr....