MISGUIDED MAGAZINE SPRING 2020

BLACK HISTORY TIMELINE OF
Mar. 5, 1770
Mar. 13, 1773
June 17, 1775
Feb. 2, 1807
May 24, 1854
Sept. 22, 1862
Jan. 1, 1863
Jan 24, 1865
June 19, 1865
Jan 9, 1866
Mar. 2, 1867
Nov. 28, 1868
Mar. 30, 1870
July 2, 1872
Dec. 9, 1872
Feb. 14, 1879
Dec. 2, 1884
Apr. 7, 1885
Sept. 13, 1886
Crispus Attucks becomes one of the first casualties of the American
Revolution.
Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Black pioneer and explorer, founded the city
of Chicago.
Peter Salem, a Minuteman, fights in the battle of Bunker Hill.
Congress bans foreign slave trade.
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, the first Black college in the U. S. is
founded.
The Emancipation Proclamation is announced.
President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.
Congress passes 13th Amendment, which on ratification abolished slavery.
Blacks in Texas notified of Emancipation Proclamation; Juneteenth now
marks this event.
Fisk University is founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
U. S. Congress enacts charter to establish Howard University.
14th Amendment, granting Blacks full citizenship rights, becomes part of
the Constitution.
15th Amendment ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to African Americans.
Elijah McCoy patents his first self-lubricating locomotive engine.
The quality of his inventions helped coin the phrase “The Real McCoy.”
P.B.S. Pinchback from Louisiana becomes first African American governor
in U. S.
B. K. Bruce becomes first African American to preside over U. S. Senate.
Granville T. Woods patents telephone transmitter.
Granville T. Woods patents Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph.
Alain Locke, literary critic and first African American Rhodes Scholar, is
born.
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