African American History Calendar

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20 Africans brought to Jamestown as slaves - 1619

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August 21, 1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Virginia.

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Henry Highland Garnett calls for general slave strike in Buffalo, NY - 1843

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August 31, 1836 - Henry Blair patents cotton planter. Henry Blair was the second black inventor to receive a patent the first was Thomas Jennings who received a patent in 1821 for a dry cleaning process. He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States in 1807. Henry Blair was the only inventor to be identified in the Patent Office records as "a colored man."

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Federal Government arms 5,000 slaves - 1862

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August 25, 1908 - National Association of Colored Nurses founded.

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August 26, 1920 - 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified, giving women the right to vote.