From the trenches to national honourees - Seven pastors given awards on Heroes Day

Al Sharpton

Al Sharpton is a religious leader and political activist. He was born on October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father left the family and Sharpton was raised by his mother. They had to move to the public housing projects, where his mother worked as a maid and supported the family on her

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Oct

3

1954

Dr

Dr. John E. W. Thompson, graduate of the Yale University Medical School, named minister to Haiti.

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May

7

1885

First Slave revolt in America

The first slave revolt in America actually occurred 93 years

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1526

March 24,1837 Canada gives Blacks the right to vote.1865 Black troops ar

March

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Jan

0

2001

Ashley, Maurice (1966- )

Maurice Ashley, the first African American chess grandmaster, was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica on March 6, 1966. At age 12, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where Ashley began to develop an interest in chess. Although he spent several hours a day playing and studying the game, he did not play

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Mar

6

1966

Clifton R

Clifton R. Wharton Sr. confirmed as minister to Rumania. Career diplomat was the first Black to head a U.S. embassy in Europe.

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Feb

5

1958

(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”

On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech appears

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Dec

10

1964

Jamiaca's Independence

Jamaica became an independent domininon within the British Commonwealth.

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Aug

6

1962

Death of actor Canada Lee (45), New York City

Death of actor Canada Lee (45), New York

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May

9

1952

Colin Powell

Born: 4/5/937 Harlem, New YorkColin Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 200 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During

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National Black convention met at Buffalo, New

National Black convention met at Buffalo, New York, with some seventy delegates from twelve states. The highlight of the convention was a stirring address by Henry Highland Garnet, a twenty-seven-year-old-Presbyterian pastor who called for a slave revolt and a general slave strike. Amos G. Beman of

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Aug

15

1843

Did You Know That In...

1778 - The Baptist church decides that marriages between slaves should be respected.

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Jan

0

1778

Stephen Bantu Biko

One of the greatest sons of Africa was brutaly mudered by then government of apatheird in South Africa.Biko was a thinker, intellect and a father.His philosophy was that blacks must be proud to be black and blacks must redifine themselves.We as South Africans this month we are mournibg his demise

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Sep

12

2002

Death of Richard Allen

Death of Richard Allen (71), who was nominated by author Vernon Loggins for the title Father of the

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Mar

26

1831

(1797) Prince Hall Speaks To The African Lodge, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Five years after his presentation at Charles Town, Prince Hall again addresses his fellow Masons. In an address delivered to the African Lodge at West Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 24, 1797, Hall challenges those Masons to work for the elimination of slavery and the establishment of full civil

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Jun

24

1797

Cote divoire

After several postponements by President Gbagbo, Côte dIvoire held its first presidential election in ten years in Oct. 2010. The first round of voting between incumbent Gbagbo and his historic rival Alassane Ouattara, a former IMF official who was excluded from the presidential 2000 race because

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Martin Luther King,Jr. Ordained

Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister

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Feb

25

1948

African Methodist Episcopal Conference

The African Methodist Zion and Asbury African Methodist churches, both of New York City, started their own separate African Methodist Episcopal Conference, still within the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Aug

11

1820

Denmark Vessey Hanged

In the same year of Gabriel Prossers death, 1800, a slave named Denmark Vesey gained his freedom in

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Jul

2

1822

Pam Grier

Pam Grier | FactMonster

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Marcus Garvey

Born: 8/17/1887 Saint Anns Bay, JamaicaDied: 6/10/1940 London, United KingdomMarcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro

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Henry Highland Garnet

Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presbyterian minister, named minister to Liberia. He died in Monrovia shortly after his arrival.

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Jun

30

1881

Saint Augustine

St. Augustine, (Aurelius Augustinus, A.B. 354-430 bishop of Hippo,(now Souk-Ahras in modern Algeria),wrote the City of God, setting forth the Christian view of the world and humanity, in A.D. 410.

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Jan

0

410

Lee, Jarena (1783–185?)

Lee moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a teenager and continued to work as a domestic servant. One afternoon, Lee attended a worship service at Bethel Church where Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the A.M.E. Church, was scheduled to preach. After hearing the powerful sermon delivered by

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Birthday of Eldridge Cleaver

Birthday of Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther Party minister of information.

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Aug

31

1935

La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual. Articles were written in both French, for the majority of African Americans in Louisiana, and English, in order

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J.H. Jackson

J.H. Jackson, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, elected president of the National Baptist Convention at Miami meeting.

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Sep

11

1953

St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, Omaha, Nebraska (1865- )

The St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (“St. John’s AME”) was first organized in 1865 in North Omaha, Nebraska Territory, with an initial membership of five people. Two years later, at about the time Nebraska was admitted to statehood, the congregation built its first

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Minister to Liberia

Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia.

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Jul

22

1848

Educator Joseph Charles Price was born

Few Individuals have made the impact on their times or left the legacy to their beneficiaries as did Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone

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Feb

10

1854

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