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Meet the 32 Ghanaians selected for 2022 Mandela Washington Fellows

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Thirty-two young Ghanaians have been selected as U.S. Department of State 2022 Mandela Washington Fellows.…

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Prison uprising, Washington, D.C., jail
Prison uprising, Washington, D.C., jail.
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Oct
11
1972
Black Women Unite
National Federation of Afro-American Women and the Colored Womens League merged and created the National Association of Colored Women. Mary Church Terrell was elected president at meeting at Washingtons Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
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Jul
21
1896
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date, held in Washington.
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Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
May
17
1957
African Heritage
All Caribbean stories are known as Ananse stories even if Ananse does not appear in them. Ananse is the god of joke and trickery from the Ashanti peoples of Ghana. He was the unseen passenger on the slave ships and played a very important function in keeping the dispossed Africans connected to the
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Sponsored by APEX Museum
Jan
0
1999
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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Dec
5
1946
Storm of 1928
The hurricane that hit Palm Beach County Florida, on September 16, 1928, has been identified as the third largest death total, caused by a natural disastor, in the United States.
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Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Sep
16
1928
Liberia
Minister Lott Cary left the United States leading a group of freed slaves, most of whom were members of the American Colonization Society, to colonize a small portion of West Africa. This area became known as the Republic of Liberia in 1847.
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Jan
23
1821
Alex Haley, renowned author, dies
American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in
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Feb
10
1992
Benjamin Banneker, inventor and scientist, dies
Benjamin Banneker, inventor and scientist, dies October 26, 1806 at the age of
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Oct
26
1806
National Baptist Convention
These Baptist groups, the Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, the American National Baptist Convention, the Baptist National Education Convention, Merged and established the National Baptist Convention at an Atlanta meeting.
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Sponsored by Eastern Bank
Sep
28
1895
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (46), thirty-fifth president of the United States, assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Nov
22
1963
Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director,
Whitney M. Young, Jr. was Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 until his tragic, untimely death in 1971. He worked tireless to bring the races together, and joined the tenets of social work, of which he was an outstanding practitioner, to the social activism that brought the
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Sponsored by NSBE Boston
Feb
11
1971
Anti-lynching Bill Proposed
African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Jan
20
1900
Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson
Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York
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Jul
2
1961
Sculptor Elizabeth Catlett born
Lithographer and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington, DC. Catlett was the first woman to teach sculpture at the School of Fine Arts, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Apr
15
1919
Death of Lincoln
Death of Abraham Lincoln, Washington.
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Apr
15
1865
Bert Williams--a Leading Comedian
At the turn of the century Bert Williams was one of Americas top comedians. Comedian Eddie Cantor called him a comic genius, W.C. Fields, a comic genius himself, once described Williams as the funniest man I ever
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Mar
4
1922
Cyber-Youth Network Launch
On Wednesday, February 3rd, for the first time in history, Americas urban students will have a Web site specifically designed to address their educational needs and interests. The site -- called the Cyber-Youth Network -- provides a model for online education by offering students and teachers
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Feb
3
1999
Booker Taliaferro Washington (Booker T. Washington)was born on this day.
Booker Taliaferro Washington (Booker T. Washington)was born on this day in Hales Ford, Virginia.
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Sponsored by Diversity In Action
Apr
5
1856
Duke Ellington Born
Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington, world famous musician, born in Washington, D.C.
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Apr
29
1899
Philips, 1st Black nominated president
Rev. Channing E. Philips of Washington, D.C., became first Black nominated for president by a major national party. Philips was nominated as favorite son candidate by District of Columbia delegation at Democratic convention in Chicago and received 671/2 votes.
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Aug
28
1968
Dorothy Height born
Birthday of Dorothy Irene Height in Richmond, Virginia. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than three decades, organized a successful drive to place a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in a District of Columbia park. Once erected, the statue became the first of an African
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Mar
24
1912
Independence Day, Ghana
Independence Day, Ghana
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Mar
6
0
Elijah Muhammad, born
Elijah Muhummad was born Elijah Poole in
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Oct
10
1897
Birth of William Seymour
William Seymour was born in Centerville, Louisiana. He is credited as being the inspirational force behind the birth of Pentecostalism in the United States.
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
May
2
1870
Reginald F. Lewis
Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpes & Lewis, the first black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International food Company, Lewis became the
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Feb
3
0
President Garfield shot in Washington, D.C
President Garfield shot in Washington, D.C. He died on September 19 and was succeeded by Vice-president Chester A. Arthur.
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Jul
2
1881
Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated at the first African American auxiliary bi
Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated at the first African American auxiliary bishop in the U.S. He is assigned to Washington, D.C.
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Sep
12
1974
Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first
Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first Black bank, opened in Washington, D.C. The Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers (Richmond, Va.) was chartered on March 2, 1888.
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Sponsored by BARBinc
Mar
2
1888
Anthony Burns, celebrated fugitive slave, arrested
Anthony Burns, celebrated fugitive slave, arrested by United States Deputy marshals in Boston. Two thousand United States troops escorted him through the streets of Boston when he was returned to the South on June 3.
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Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
May
24
1854

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