Eras & Movements

The chapters of this history, from pre-colonial Africa through today's innovators.

• The Abolition Movement

  movement to end slavery in the United States

• The American Revolution and Black Patriots

  (no Wikidata description — needs a real one-line summary)

• Bantu Migration Era

  name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group

• The Black Arts Movement

  African American–led art movement, active between the 1960s and 1970s

• The Black Power Movement

  political and social movement and ideology

• The Harlem Renaissance

  African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s

• The Négritude Movement

  cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite

• The Negro Leagues Era

  former United States professional baseball leagues

• The Pan-Africanism Movement

  worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent

• Slavery in Colonial America

  slavery in the historic kingdoms of England's and Great Britain's American colonies prior to U.S. independence

• Swahili Coast Trade Era

  coast of Kenya, Tanzania, and northern Mozambique, located in southeastern Africa

• Trans-Saharan Trade Era

  trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

  slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean during the early modern period (late 15th century to the early 19th century)

• West African Kingdoms Era

  occurrences and people in West Africa throughout history

• The Underground Railroad Era

  network of secret routes & safehouses in 19th-century U.S. used by slaves to find freedom

• The Antebellum Era

  Historical period in the American South

• The Civil War and Emancipation

  1861–1865 civil war in the United States between the North and the South over the enslavement of African-Americans

• Reconstruction Era

  era after American Civil War (1865–1877)

• Buffalo Soldiers

  African American regiments of the US Army created 1866, the first black regulars in peacetime

• The Nadir / Jim Crow Era

  era between emancipation and the civil rights movement, characterized by the Jim Crow laws

• The Great Migration

  movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States

• The Great Depression and Black America

  severe economic crisis in the USA in the 1930s

• The Tuskegee Airmen

  African-American military pilots during World War II

• World War II and the Double V Campaign

  black American campaign to promote democracy and civil rights

• The Civil Rights Movement

  1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

• The Black Panther Party

  US black power organization (1966–1982)

• Hip-Hop Culture and Movement

  rhythmic music accompanied by rhyming speech

• The Black Lives Matter Movement / Contemporary Civil Rights

  social movement originating in the USA