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1865 - January 31
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1865 - February 12
Speaking before the ....
1865 - February 18
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1865 - March 3
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1865 - March 13
Jefferson Davis, “president” of the ....
1865 - April 2
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1865 - April 3
The Fifth Massachusetts ....
1865 - April 9
Confederate General Robert E. Lee ....
1865 - April 11
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1865 - April 14
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1865 - June 19
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1865 - July 26
Patrick Francis Healy passes ....
1865 - August
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1865 - October 19
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1865 - November 22-25
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1865 - December
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1865 - December 6
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1866 - January 9
Fisk University ....
1866 - April 9
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1866 - May 1-3
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1866 - July 30
White Democrats and police ....
1867 - January 8
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1867 - February 14
The Augusta Institute ....
1867 - March 2
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1867 March 2
Howard University ....
1867 - March 27
Protestors in Charleston ....
1867 - April 24
The first national meeting ....
1867 - May 1
Registration of black and white ....
1867 - August 1
African Americans vote ....
1867 - May 14
One black and one white person ....
1867 - May
A white supremacist militia ....
1867 - October 5
Monroe Baker, a wealthy African-American ....
1868 - February 24
The House of Representatives votes ....
1868 - April 1
Hampton Institute ....
1868 - May 16
President Johnson escapes ....
1868 - June 1
Solomon George Washington Dill ....
1868 - July 28
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1868 September 3
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1868 September 19
The Camilla Massacre ....
1868 Septemeber 28
The Opelousas Massacre ....
1868 October 26
Several African Americans ....
Benjamin Franklin Randolph ....
1868 November 3
John W. Menard becomes ....
Ulysses S. Grant is ....
1870 - January 20
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1870 - February 3
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1870 - July 1
A black man named James ....
1871 - October 17
President Grant suspends ....
1872 - February 7
Alcorn A&M College ....
1872 - April 23
Charlotte E. Ray ....
1872 - September 21
John H. Conyers becomes ....
1872 - December 9
Lieutenant Governor P.B.S. ....
1873 - April 13
As many as 150 African-Americans ....
1873 - April 14
The Supreme Court rules ....
1874 - February 3
A formerly-enslaved man named Blanche ....
1874 - July 31
Patrick Francis Healy becomes ....
1874 - August 26
Sixteen African Americans ....
1874 - September 14
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1874 - December 7
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1875 - January 5
President Grant sends ....
1875 - September 4-6
The Clinton Massacre ....
1875 - November 2
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1876 - July 8
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1876 - August 14
Alta Vista Agricultural and Mechanical ....
1876 - September 6
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1876 - September 15-20
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1876 - October 16
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1877 - February 26
The compromise of 1877 ....
1877 - June 15
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1881 - January 5
Morris Brown College ....
1881 - April 11
Spelman College ....
1881 - July 4
Tuskegee University ....
1881 - December
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1881 - December 24-31
The Edgefield Exodus ....
1883 - October 15
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1883 November 3
An altercation on the street ....
1884 - November 22
T. Thomas Fortune begins ....
Christopher J. Perry begins ....
1886 - March 17
In Mississippi, what we will be known as ....
1888 - October 17
Capital Savings Bank ....
1892 - August 13
The Baltimore Afro-American ....
1893 - July 9
Daniel Hale Williams ....
1895 - March 11-12
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