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Hush Harbors & Slave Quarters

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1619--> 1739

Influences of West African Religion bleed into Christian principles taught on the plantation. Salve quarters and hush harbors were used to hold worship ceremonies without the white plantation owners knowing.

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The First Great Awakening

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1739-->1750s

Baptist ministers from the North visit the South and Gospelize the black slaves. This led to a huge influx of African American Christians. The gap? 1619 to 1739 until the majority of Blacks were Christian.

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The Second Great Awakening

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1790-->1850s

Another set of Awakenings which took place in America, further strengthening the Black Christian experience.

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Baptist

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The first major exposure to Christianity experienced by African Americans. It is also the reason why most Blacks today serve in the denomination. The frist Black Baptist "church" was in Mecklenberg, VA on the Byrd plantation. This denomination was primarily accepted by Southern Blacks for its autonomous nature which went with the African American style of worship.

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National Baptist Convention

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Developed in 1875. It is the largest African American Denomination and a result of the Great Awakenings.

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National Baptist Convention of America

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1915

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Progressive National Baptist Convention

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1961

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National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

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1988

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Methodist

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Influential in the North as it allowed freed Blacks to participate in the priesthood. It's first development in the Black community was in 1797 with the "Free African Society" in Philadelphia.

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African Methodist Episcopal (AME)

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Founded by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones when they left the Methodist church because of racial discrimination. The church grew out of the "Free African Society." It was founded in 1816 in Philadelphia and was the FIRST separate African American denomination.

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Christian Methodist Episcopal

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Founded in 1870 in Tennessee.

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AME Zion Church

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Founded in 1821 in New York. Frederick Douglass and Soujurner Truth were active participants. Differed as it directed it's attention not only toward abolition, but also toward Women's Rights.

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"Third" Great Awakening

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The Azusa street revivals, which occurred in 1907 in Azusa CA, near L.A., led to the formation of the Holiness Pentecostal faith.

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Church of God in Christ

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A direct result of the Azusa Street revival. The church was appealing to many African Americans as the worship style closely matched that of their African ancestors and the style of "call and repeat" culture that existed in the community.

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1619

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First African American slaves arrive in Jamestown, VA.

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1793

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Cotton Gin Created

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1808

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Congress bans import of African Slaves. Slave Trade Act of 1807.

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1820

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Missouri Compromise

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1859

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Confederacy founded due to growing tensions surrounding slavery. The South secedes the union and the Civil War Begins.

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1863

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The Emancipation Proclamation.

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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Proclamation by president Lincoln declaring that all slaves in the South were free and would stay that way.

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Freedman's Bureau

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Bureau established by the North to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves of the South. (1865)

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1865

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Abe Lincoln is assassinated. The KKK is established. The Civil War Ends.

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June 19th, 1865

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Slavery officially ends when 250,000 slaves in Texas receive news that the North won the war. (1865)

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13th Amendment

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(1865) Prohibited Slavery.

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Black Codes

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(1865-1866) Legislation passed in the South after the 13th amendment which targeted the rights of newly freed slaves. Later transformed themselves into the Jim Crow Laws.

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The Reconstruction

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A series of Legislation that began getting passed in 1867 in response to the Civil War victory for the North and the Black Codes of the South. (began in 1867)

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14th Amendment

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Declares that all persons born on American soil were henceforth considered citizens.

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15th Amendment

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Gave voting rights to African American men.

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1877

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Reconstruction ends in the south.

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The Black Exodus

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A migration of newly freed black slaves to Kansas. Occurred in 1879

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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Upheld the South's right to segregation based on the principle of "separate but equal." Occurred in 1896. Paved the way for the Jim Crow laws.

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Dred Scott Case

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1857. Declared that Congress could not ban slavery in states.

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The Great Migration

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The first wave occurred in 1910-->1920s, mostly halted due to the First World War. Second wave occurred from 1929-->1939. The Migration was an attempt by free blacks in the South to Migrate North and West to escape the Jim Crow segregation and racism of the south.

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World War 1

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1914-1918

U.S. entered in 1917

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World War 2

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1939-1945

U.S. entered in 1941

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1842

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Holy Family Sisters a religious community of black women in New Orleans is formed.

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1854

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James Augustine Healy was the first African American Priest to be ordained into the Catholic priesthood. He was ordained in Paris.

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Rev. Hiram R. Revels

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Was a member of the AME church and the 1st African American member of the senate.

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Julia A. J. Foote

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Ordained into the AME Zion church. (1894)

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National Women's Convention

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Founded as an auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention. (1900)

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1903

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W.E.B. DuBois published the "Souls of Black Folks."

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W.E.B. DuBois

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Black politician and actvist that fought racism in America and African Colonies.

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The Souls of Black Folks

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Criticism of the Segregation, legislation, and injustice of the American racial system.

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1906

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The Azusa Street Revival.

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Marcus Garvey

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Organized the Universal Negro Imrovement Association and African Community League. (1914).

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Nation of Islam

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Founded in 1920 in Detroit by Wallace D. Fard. Appealed to the Black community as a way of keeping Black resources in Black communities. It also reached out to prisoners. Malcom X was an active participant.

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National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches

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Established in 1933 it facilitated the cooperation among African American denominations.

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1955

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Rosa Parks stays on da bus, gets arrested, starts Montgomery Bus Boycotts.

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Southern Christian Leadership Council

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Started in 1957 with MLK as president. Was used as a kick-starter for the Civil Rights Movement as African American ministers called on America's churched to live up to their moral code of conduct toward blacks.

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1963

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March on Washington

"I Have a Dream"

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1965

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Malcom X assassinated in New York and the Civil Rights Act becomes law (written in 1964).

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1968

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MLK assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Nat Turner

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Leads the largest and strongest slave revolt in South Hampton County, VA. (1831).

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1st National Negro Convention

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Meets in Philadelphia with Bishop Richard Allen (he died one year later). (1830).

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Denmark Vessey

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Planned "the rising" a slave revolt in Charleston, SC in 1822. He was also a member of the AME church.

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1664

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Maryland passes legislation affirming that baptism did not equal freedom.

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Andrew Bryan

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Organizes the first African Church of Savannah (1788).

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1794

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St. Thomas African Episcopal Church and Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Philadelphia.