Timeline
Select a time period to begin.
2nd century AD-1789:
Old World to New
1790-1863:
The Enslavement of Africans
1864-c. 1916:
Reconstruction and the Great Migration
1917-34:
The Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance
1936-59:
The Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
1960-69:
Black Power and a Free Africa
1970-90:
Mayors, Congressmen, and Astronauts
1991-present:
The Spirit of the Millennium
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