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Elbert Frank Cox

Elbert Frank Cox was born on this day in Evansville, Indiana. He became the first Black to hold a doctorates degree in mathematics which he received from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1925.

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Dec

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1895

N.Y. against racial discrimination

New York became the first city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market with adoption of Fair Housing Practices Law.

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Dec

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1957

Spingarn Award: Mary Mcleod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune awarded Spingarn Medal for her work as founder-president of Bethune Cookman College and her national leadership.

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1935

Loren Miller: Legal Crusader in the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century

In the essay below, journalist and historian Amina Hassan describes her 2015 biography of Loren Miller, a significant but understudied figure in the long twentieth century campaign for civil rights and racial

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1945

Marcus Allen, tailback for the Univ of Southern California, wins the Heisman Tro

Marcus Allen, tailback for the Univ of Southern California, wins the Heisman Trophy

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1981

Spingarn Medal Given to Carl Murphy

Carl Murphy, publisher of the Baltimore Afro-American, awarded Spingarn Medal for his contributions as a publisher and civil rights leader.

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1955

Langston Hughess play, The Mulatto, began a long run on Broadway.

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1935

Historic bus boycott began in Montgomery

Historic bus boycott began in Montgomery. At a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president of the boycott organization. Asa Philip Randolph and Willard S. Townsend elected vice-president of the AFL-CIO.

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1955

Executive Order 9808

In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil

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1946

Shippen, John Matthew, Jr. (1879-1968)

John Matthew Shippen, Jr. was the first African American professional golfer and known as one of Americas golf pioneers. Shippen achieved this distinction when he competed in the US Open in

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Dec

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1879

Martin Luther King Jr. awarded Spingarn Medal for his leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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1957

President Truman created Committee on Civil Rights

President Truman created Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order No. 9808. Two Blacks Attorney Sadie M. Alexander and Channing H. Tobias were members of the committee.

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1946

Spingarn Medal presented to Thurgood Marshall, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, for his distinguished service as a lawyer before the Supreme Court.

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1946

National Negro Council of Women

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1935

Belle, Dido Elizabeth (1761-1804)

Dido Elizabeth Belle is best known for the 1779 painting of her alongside her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, the great-niece of William Murray, The First Earl of Mansfield. The Earl, also known as Lord Mansfield, was at the time the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the highest ranking

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Dec

5

1793

Phyllis Wheatley Dies

Phyllis Wheatley, the first African-American author to be published in book form, dies in poverty at the age of thirty-one. Wheatley astonished Bostonians with her ability to write poetry while yet being a slave.

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1784

National Council of Negro Women founded

National Council of Negro Women founded in New York City with Mary McLeod Bethune as president.

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1935

Singer, "Little Richard", born

Singer, Little Richard, born

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1932

Council of Negro Women

Educator, Mary McLeod Bethune, founds National Council of Negro Women, 1935

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1935

Rev James Cleveland, the King of Gospel, is born in Chicago, Illinois

Rev James Cleveland, the King of Gospel, is born in Chicago, Illinois

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1931

aLEXANDRE dUMAS(PERE), fRENCH NOVELIST AND DRAMATIST, DIES.

aLEXANDRE dUMAS(PERE), fRENCH NOVELIST AND DRAMATIST, DIES.

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Dec

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1870

Salem Poor was a Black hero of the Revoluntionary War. He distinguished himself so in battle that fourteen American officers praised him before Congress. On this day, a memorial was dedicated to him at Cambridge, Massachusetts which carried the citation that under our own observation, we declare

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Dec

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1775

Born on this day, Sarah Gorham was the first woman appointed by the AME Church in 1888, to serve as a missionary to any foreign country.

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1832

Bill Pickett, cowboy born

Born this day in Travis County, TX., only 57 and 145 pounds, Pickett was one of the toughest cowboys. Invented unique form of steer wrestling called bulldogging. Died Apr. 2, 1932.

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Dec

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1870

Born on this day in Chicago, Illinois, James Cleveland first sang gospel under the direction of Thomas Dorsey at the Pilgrim Baptist Church.

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Dec

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1932

(1955) Martin Luther King Jr., “The Montgomery Bus Boycott”

The Montgomery Bus Boycott speech reprinted below is one of the first major addresses of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King spoke to nearly 5,000 people at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery on December 5, 1955, just four days after Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish

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Dec

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1955

Swing Age began with the commercial success of big bands. The decade of the thirties was the heyday for big bands of Chick Webb, Andy Kirk, Cab Calloway, count Basis, Jimmie Lunceford and Duke Ellington.

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1935

Forty-seventh Congress (1881-83) Convened

Forty-seventh Congress (1881-83) convened. Two Black congressmen, Robert Smalls, South Carolina; John R. Lynch, Mississippi.

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1881

Born on this day, Charity Earley became the first Black commissioned officer in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942.

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1918

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