A timeline tracing the history of Black travelers through the centuries
Mary Fields (1832–1914) also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary was the first African American woman employed as a stagecoach mail carrier in the United States. In 1895, she hitched a team of six horses faster than all the other job applicants and was hired on the spot. She.. Read More…
In 1859, Martin Robison Delany, physician, abolitionist, journalist, military officer, and the father of Black Nationalism, led an African American exploring party to Niger Valley in hopes to find a homeland for African American repatriation. Delany who was the only Black officer to receive the rank of Major during the.. Read More…
Paul Cuffee spearheaded the first Black ‘Back to Africa’ initiative in United States history. He was also the first free African American to visit the White House and have an audience with a sitting president. As a young man, he worked as a whaling ship captain. He eventually saved enough.. Read More…
Yanga is a municipality located in the southern area of the State of Veracruz. In 1932 it was renamed after Gaspar Yanga, the cimarron leader who in 1609 resisted an attack by Spanish forces trying to regain control of the area. Despite the enslaving and indentured labor of a high.. Read More…
On 22 June 1948, the former German cruise liner HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the United Kingdom at Tilbury Docks, Essex, carrying passengers from the West Indies. The following day, in what has become a landmark in the history of modern Britain, Caribbean migrants from countries including Jamaica, Bermuda, Trinidad,.. Read More…
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual revival of African American art and literature centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, in the early 20th-century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. At the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”, named after The New Negro, a.. Read More…
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from about 1916 to 1970. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many Black people headed north, where they.. Read More…
The Black Star Line was a steamship company completely owned, operated, and financed by people of African descent. Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), a Jamaican national and master propagandist, was the leader of this venture. He was a Black nationalist and a leader of the Pan-Africanism movement which sought to unify and.. Read More…
Allensworth is the first town in California to be founded, financed, and governed by Black people. The first group of settlers was a group of men led by Colonel Allen Allensworth who was the highest-ranking Black officer in the U.S. Army when he retired in 1906. The town fell on.. Read More…
Africville was an African-Canadian village located just north of Halifax and founded in the mid-18th century. The City of Halifax demolished the once-prosperous seaside community in the 1960s in what many said was an act of racism. The mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality apologized for the action in 2010… Read More…