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November 10 – Coup d'état begins in Wilmington, North Carolina, resulting in considerable loss of life and property in the African-American community and the installation of a white supremacist Democratic Party regime. [citation needed] 1899. September 18 – The "Maple Leaf Rag" is an early ragtime composition for piano by Scott Joplin.
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. May 1918 Erwin ...
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco , BART Police officers detained Grant and several other ...
The unarmed black teen shot dead August 9 by a white cop in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson is finally being laid to rest. Michael Brown 's killing by white police officer Darren Wilson , 28 ...
Hundreds of African-American gun owners from around the US marched in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to remember those murdered in the massacre on the eve of its 100th anniversary. The Elmer Geronimo Pratt Gun Club of Austin, Texas, and New Black Panther Party organized the event. Slogans of "Black Power" and "Black Lives Matter" were heard during the rally ...
McDuffie, an African-American, died from injuries sustained at the hands of four white officers trying to arrest him after a high-speed chase. Miami riot 1982, December 28, rioting broke out after police shot and killed a black man in video game arcade. Another man was killed in the riots, more than 25 people were injured and 40 arrested.
Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.
List of African-American pioneers in desegregation of higher education; List of African-American sports firsts; List of African-American arts firsts; List of African-American United States Cabinet members; List of African-American U.S. state firsts; List of black Academy Award winners and nominees; List of black Golden Globe Award winners and ...