1870 The 15th Amendment pases, granting the right to vote.
	1909 NAACP (National Advancement of Colored People) was founded.
	1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Gone with the Wind.
	1947 Jackie Robinson becomes first major league baseball player.
	1954 The U.S. Supreme Court outlaws public school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
	1955 NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus. 14 year old Emmett Till is kidnapped, beaten, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for whistling at a white woman.
	1956 Nat King Cole becomes the first black entertainer to host his own show on national TV.
	1957 Nine black students, escorted by the Arkansas National Guard, desegregate Central High School in Little Rock.
	1960 Four black college students hold a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
	1962 Jackie Robinson elected to the Baseball hall of fame.
	1963 March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. Four girls are killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Batist Church in Birmingham, a site of civil rights meethings. Thurgood Marshall appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
	1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination, is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
	1965 Malcom X is slain. Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed.
	1968 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated. Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed by President Johnson. First black woman elected to Congress from Brooklyn's 91st Congressional District.
	1975 First black man to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating Jimmy Connors in 1975.
	1983 President Ronald Reagan signs legislation establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
	1997 Tiger Woods wins the Masters tournament, becoming the first African American to win.
	2001 Robert Johnson, the owner of Black Entertainment TV became the first black billionaire. Colin Powell becomes first black secretary of state.
	2005 The U.S. Senate confirms Condoleeza Rice as secretary of state.
	2006 Keith Ellison, and African American Muslim, is elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota.
	2007 Oprah Winfrey endorses Barack Obama in the race for the White House.
	2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African American to head a major-party Presidential ticket.