JANUARY 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation signed.
APRIL 9, 1865
Robert E, Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House.
APRIL 1877
Troops withdrawn from S.C. Reconstruction ends.
OCTOBER 8, 1878
John Allen born to Thomas and Mary Ann Hargrove McFall
AUGUST 27, 1886
Magnitude 7.6 eartquake hits Charleston.
MARCH 5, 1888
John goes with father to hear Fredirick Douglass speak.
AUGUST 27, 1893
Hurricane death toll nears 2000 in Charleston vicinity.
MAY 1896
The U.S Supreme Court decides Plessy v. Ferguson legalizing "separate but equal."
APRIL 1899
John graduates with honors from the Philadelphia College of Phamacy, a few month later he opens a pharmacy at corner of Smith and Morris Streets.
DECEMBER 1, 1901- JUNE 1, 1902
South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition opens, John is a member of the entertainment committee.
JANUARY 18, 1902
John marries Josephine Carr. John became friends with poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. John purchased first home at 70 Bogard Street. John mediated labor trouble of building tradesman.
1905
Separate seating installed at baseball park and auditorium. Efforts to increase voters' registration of Negroes.
BY 1907
John teaches Materia Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Hospital and Training School for Nurses as well as serves as its financial Secretary-Treasurer.
SPRING 1907
Richard T. Greener gives his analysis of propagandizing white supremacy.
FEBRUARY 27, 1914
John purchases store property at Smith and Morris Streets.
1918
John presides at meeting to support Food Conservation and Liberty bonds; he prepares a petition and presses for hiring Negro women at the Navy yard.
1919
John drives a petitions to allow Black teachers to teach in the city of Charleston.
1920
John charters and manages the Charleston Mutual saving bank until 1942.
1922
John petitions the S.C, state legislature about confiscating 150 Ashley Avenue.
1925
John drives incorporation of Avery Institute for training Negro teachers.
1942
John resigns from the Board of the Colored Hospital and Nurse Training School.
JULY 23, 1954
Death of John Allen McFall. U.S. Supreme Court decided on May 14 that state-sanctioned segregation in schools was unconstitutional.