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Timelines

From 1619 to 2026 — and beyond.

Eight tracks across history, music, business, sports, HBCUs, civil rights, and innovation.

  1. 1619

    First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia

    20 enslaved Africans arrive at Point Comfort, Virginia aboard the White Lion.

  2. 1816

    AME Church founded

    Richard Allen formally establishes the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

  3. 1910

    Great Migration begins

    Six million Black Americans begin leaving the rural South.

  4. 1921

    Tulsa Race Massacre

    White mob destroys the Greenwood District ('Black Wall Street').

  5. 1926

    Negro History Week

    Carter G. Woodson launches what becomes Black History Month.