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

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

In 1888, this African American was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention.

In 1904, the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by this person.

In 1909, this Black explorer accompanied Admiral Robert Peary to the North Pole.

In 1865, Fisk University was founded in this city.

In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first Black person elected to this office.

In 1888, this great-uncle of writer Langston Hughes became the first Black American elected to Congress from Virginia.

In 1905, the first Black symphony was founded and was called this.

In 1910, about fifty percent of the Black labor force was employed in this industry.

In 1897, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond, Virginia to try the case of this former Confederacy president.

In 1871, this person became the first Black American governor.

In 1890, African American Lewis Latimer became the chief draftsman of this company.

In 1907, Jack Johnson defeated this person to win the heavyweight championship.

In 1910, William Monroe Trotter led a protest against this play.

In 1869, ex-slave Fannie Coppin established the Institute for Colored Youth in Pennsylvania. the school is known as this today.

In 1872, this inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horses from carriages.

In 1897, an organization called the American Negro Academy started under this person's leadership.

In 1908, this was the first Black sorority founded at Howard University.

In 1912, W.C. Handy, father of the Blues, published this song, one of the first to be published on sheet music.

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

In 1884, the "Medico-Chirurgical Society" was formed. It was this type of association.

In 1901, Garrett Morgan's first invention was a belt fastener for sewing machines which he sold for this amount of money.

In 1909, W.E.B. Dubois co-founded this national organization.

In 1913, Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at this university.