In 1865, John S. Rock became the first Black person admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His practice was in this state.

In 1870, Elijah McCoy started this company in Detroit, Michigan.

In 1865, Fisk University was founded in this city.

In 1867, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond, Virginia to try the case of this former Confederate president.

In 1869, ex-slave Fannie Jackson Coppin established the Institute for Colored Youth in Pennsylvania and renamed to this.

In 1870, the third Black Methodist denomination was founded under this name that was later changed to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in America in 1954.