This six-page chart includes the following timelines:

• The Colonial Period: 1500s-1776
• Slavery in Early America: 1777-1829
• Rise of the Abolitionist Movement: 1830-1859
• The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow Era: 1860-1899
• The "New Negro" and the Great Depression: 1900-1939
• Activism and the Civil Rights Era: 1940-1969
• Post-Civil-Rights Challenges: 1970-2004
• African Americans in Education
• African Americans in Sciences and Professional Fields
• African Americans in Politics
• African Americans in the Arts
• African Americans in Sports
• African Americans in Religion
• African Americans in the Military