These have included: W. T. Vernon School ( 1908 ), the Industrial Institute for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphans of the Colored Race ( 1909 ), Moton High School, and the State Training School for Negro Girls.

When Garnet was ten years old, his family reunited and moved to New York City, where from 1826 through 1833, Garnet attended the African Free School, and the Phoenix High School for Colored Youth.

The Houston Colored Junior College first held classes at Jack Yates High School during the evenings.

Boston Colored High School when he was in eighth grade and soon started skipping class attendance.

In 1911, the school was enlarged and named the Dallas Colored High School.

In 1939, Wilmer-Hutchins Colored High School of the Wilmer-Hutchins ISD burned down in a fire-Afterwards, African-American WHISD students were sent to DISD high schools for " colored " people such as Washington.

Coppin State University was founded in 1900 at what was then called Colored High School ( later named Douglass High School ) on Pennsylvania Avenue by the Baltimore City School Board who initiated a one-year training course for the preparation of African-American elementary school teachers.

The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers ' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers ' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High Plains, where the Granger movement had been strong, and the Colored Farmers ' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the African American farmers of the South.

Thomas W. Anderson, a native of Virginia, was educated at the Keystone-Eckman High School, Keystone, West Virginia, the Bluefield Colored Institute, Bluefield, West Virginia, and Walden University, Nashville, Tennessee.

He also organized a battalion of D. C. National Guardsmen and, in the 1880s, Washington, D. C .' s, Colored High School Cadet Corps.

Meanwhile, he and Major Charles B. Fisher, who had commanded the Fifth Battalion, were instrumental in organizing the Colored High School Cadet Corps of the District of Columbia in 1888.

Upon his graduation from Colored High School, June 1912, Frazier was awarded the school's annual scholarship to Howard University in Washington, DC, from where he graduated with honors in 1916.

* Liberty Colored High School, Liberty, South Carolina

Posey led Homestead High to the 1908 city championship, played basketball at Penn State for two years, did a stint at Pitt, and formed the famous Monticello Athletic Association team that won the Colored Basketball World ’ s Championship in 1912.

Lee, already dubious about slavery and respectful of the courage of the United States Colored Troops during the war, becomes convinced that continuing to enslave Negroes is both wrong and impracticable.

* February 25 – In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth ( ICY ) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States.

The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance.

The success of the Cubans led to the creation of the first recognized " Negro league " in 1887 – the National Colored Base Ball League.

At first, he played in other ensembles, and in late 1917 formed his first group, " The Duke ’ s Serenaders " (" Colored Syncopators ", his telephone directory advertising proclaimed ).

When the film was first released, Walter Francis White, the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) telegraphed major newspapers around the country with the following statement:

Johnson won his first title on February 3, 1903, beating Denver Ed Martin on points in a 20-round match for the World Colored Heavyweight Championship.

After Johnson became the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World on December 26, 1908, his World Colored Heavyweight Championship was vacated.

The League incorporated as the first rural chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1915.

With a strong ethnic community, Bluefield was the site of the 1895 founding of the Bluefield Colored Institute, the nation's first college with primarily black students.

The case represented the second appearance before the Court of Solicitor General John W. Davis and the first case in which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) filed a brief.

* The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones were the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall

Johns Hopkins ' bequest was used to posthumously found the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum first as he requested, in 1875 ; the Johns Hopkins University in 1876 ; the Johns Hopkins Press, the longest continuously operating academic press in America, in 1878 ; the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889 ; the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1893 ; and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1916.

While the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum was founded by the hospital trustees, the other institutions that carry the name of " Johns Hopkins " were founded under the administration of the first president of the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Daniel Coit Gilman and his successors.

As per Johns Hopkins ' instruction letter, the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum ( JHCCOA ) was founded first, in 1875, a year before Gilman's inauguration, now the founding date of the university.

He served in the Union Army during the Civil War as a first lieutenant in the Ninth Minnesota Infantry and later as colonel and commander of the Thirty-ninth U. S. Colored Infantry.

Second Baptist also opened the city's first school for black children in 1839, and in 1843 and 1865 hosted a " State Convention of Colored Citizens " to petition the Michigan government for Negro Suffrage.

Among numerous examples of these creations were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody ( the first off-Broadway play to win the Pulitzer Prize ), and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, A Chorus Line.

The Massachusetts General Colored Association -- David Walker among its founders -- opposed colonization, and was the first abolitionist organization in Boston committed to freeing African Americans from chattel slavery.

* The Eastern Colored League ( ECL ) plays its first season with six teams: Hilldale Daisies, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Cuban Stars ( East ), New York Lincoln Giants, Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox.

He has been most well known for his leadership in abolitionism ; a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with Frederick Douglass, he helped start the National Council of Colored People in 1853, the first permanent national organization for blacks.

He wrote The Origin and History of the Colored People in 1841, which has been called the first history of African Americans, and a slave narrative in 1849, The Fugitive Blacksmith.

In 1854, Watkins delivered her first anti-slavery speech on “ Education and the Elevation of Colored Race ”.

Trotter enlisted in the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War and was the first man of color to be promoted to lieutenant with the 55th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Colored.

In 1835 black leaders called upon black Americans to remove the title of " African " from their institutions and replace it with " Negro " or " Colored American ".

This was renamed the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, more commonly known as the A. U. M. P.

In 1908 a large race riot erupted in the city which culminated in the lynching of two African American residents and led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

In 1863, Clark helped organize Iowa's black regiment, the 60th United States Colored Infantry ( originally known as the 1st Iowa Infantry, African Descent ), though an injury prevented him from serving.

The African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, usually called " the A. U. M. P.

" It was usually called the " African Union Church " until a Maryland offshoot of the A. M. E. Church ( the " First Colored Methodist Protestant Church ") merged into it in 1866, when the denomination added that church's name to its own.

The following year, CORE, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) organized their Freedom Summer campaign-aimed principally ending the political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the Deep South.

Founded as the African Institute in February 1837 and renamed the Institute of Colored Youth ( ICY ) in April 1837, Cheyney University is the oldest African American institution of higher learning, though degrees were not granted from Cheyney until 1914, when it adopted the curriculum of a normal school ( teacher training ).

Founded as the African Institute, the school was soon renamed the Institute for Colored Youth.

Out of 200, 000 African American members in 1860 there in 1866 remained only 49, 000, and most of them split off on friendly terms in 1870 to form the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, taking with them $ 1. 5 million in buildings and properties.

The United States Colored Troops ( USCT ) were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American (" colored ") soldiers.

The Spingarn of Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) for outstanding achievement by an African American.

* Colored People's Time, an American expression concerning African American timekeeping

Stepping into an organizational vacuum, as the major African American leagues of the 1920s, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League, had fallen apart by late that year, Greenlee signed many of the top African-American stars, most notably Satchel Paige.

Colored is a term once widely used in the United States to describe black people ( i. e., persons of sub-Saharan African ancestry ; members of the " black race ") and Native Americans.

For his achievements, in 1916 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) awarded Young the Spingarn Medal, given annually to the African American demonstrating the highest achievement and contributions.

Clark, an outstanding citizen in the Baton Rouge African American community, presided over Baton Rouge College and the Louisiana Colored Teachers Association.

In the United States, the most extensive experimentation on bicycle units was carried out by a 1st Lieutenant Moss, of the 25th United States Infantry ( Colored ) ( an African American infantry regiment with white officers ).

* Yenser, Thomas ( editor ), Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, Who's Who in Colored America, Brooklyn, New York, 1930-1931-1932 ( Third Edition )