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Birthday - Dwight Gooden

Born on this day in Tampa, Florida, Dwight Gooden went on to become the youngest player selected as the National League Rookie of the Year in 1984, the youngest to be chosen for the All-Star Game, and the youngest to win the Cy Young Award.

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Nov

16

1964

Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, dies.

Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, dies. Born into slavery, she ran away form her owners after mistreatment by her masters wife. She petitioned successfully for her freedom, citing her knowledge of the Bill of Rights and the new constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in her argument that all men

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Dec

28

1829

football

Fritz Pollard becomes the first black to play Professional football for a major team, the Akron Indians. Pollard was also the first Black to play in the Rose Bowl.

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Sep

18

1919

Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were

Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were initiated into British Military Lodge No. 441 of the Masons at Fort Independence, Massachusetts. Hall was a leather-dresser and caterer. On July 3, 1775, African Lodge No.1 was organized in Boston by a group of Black Masons.

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Jul

3

1775

George Dixon's Birthday

George was born in Africville, (Halifax), Nova

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Jun

27

1890

Blaks Declare Segregation a Violation

A mass meeting of blacks in Boston adopted a resolution declaring that segregated public schools in that city violated the State Constitution. Their request was denied.

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Aug

22

1844

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Toms Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in Boston.

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Mar

20

1852

"Separate but Egual"

Massachusetts Supreme Court rejected the argument of Charles Sumner in the Boston school integration suit and established the separate but equal precedent.

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Mar

31

1850

Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the familys eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earls civil

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May

19

1925

Roy Campanella

Roy Camanella was major league baseballs first black catcher.

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Jan

0

2000

Captured Black Soliders

Surrounded by a superior rebel force, First Kansas Colored Volunteers smashed through rebel lines and sustained heavy casualties in an engagement at Poison Spring, Arkansas. Captured Black soldiers were murdered by the Confederate troops.

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Apr

18

1864

America's first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black

Americas first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black students were excluded from attending.

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Feb

13

1635

First Black To Lead Army Division

Maj. Gen. Frederic E. Davidson assumed command of the Eighth Infantry Division in Germany and became the first Black to lead an army division.

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Apr

19

1960

Elston Howard: dies

Elston Howard was a major League Baseball Player. Outstanding Catcher for the Yankees during the 1950s and 1960s. Nine time All-Star. First Black player to play for the Yankees.

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Dec

14

1980

Black Union Soliders

Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry and units of the Twenty-fifth Corps were in the vanguard of Union troops entering Richmond. Second Division of Twenty-Fifth Corps helped chase Robert E. Lees army from Petersburg to Appomattox Court House, April 3-10. The Black division and white Union soldiers

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Apr

3

1865

Massachusetts slaves petitioned the legislature

Massachusetts slaves petitioned the legislature for freedom. There is a record of eight freedom petitions during the Revolutionary War period.

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Jan

6

1773

Frank Robinson named manager of the Cleveland

Frank Robinson named manager of the Cleveland Indians and became the first Black manager in the major leagues.

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Oct

3

1974

First Black of graduate college in America

It is widely accepted that John Brown Russwurm was the first Black to graduate college in America on September 6, 1826 at Bowdoin College. However, just 14 days before Edward Jones graduated Amherst College in Massachusetts.

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Sep

6

1826

Killings in Civil Rights demonstrations

Jonathan M. Daniels, white Episcopal seminary student from Massachusetts, killed and Richard F. Morrisroe, white Roman Catholic priest from Chicago, seriously wounded by shotgun blasts fired by white special deputy sheriff in Hayneville, Alabama. They were participating in civil rights

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Aug

12

1965

Boston African Society was established

Boston African Society was established with forty-four members.

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Aug

8

1796

NAACP attacked issues concerning schools

NAACP began frontal attack on segregation and discrimination at elementary and high school levels, arguing that segregation was discrimination in cases before three-judged federal courts in South Carolina and Kansas. The South Carolina court, with a strong dissent from Judge E. Waites Warning, held

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Jun

30

1951

Willie Mays, born

Baseball great Willie Howard Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama. Mays played with both the New York and San Francisco Giants. He was National League batting champion four times and twice the leagues Most Valuable Player.

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May

6

1931

Levi Jackson

Levi Jackson became the first black football captain at Yale University.

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Jan

0

2000

Janet Jackson Born

Janet Jackson, of the famous Jackson family was born on this day in Gary, Indiana. Ms. Jackson will star in television shows such as Good Times, Different Strokes, and Fame. She will also become a celebrated songstress recording such albums as Rhythm Nation:1814, Janet, and the widely criticized

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May

16

1966

Denzel Washington Born

Actor Denzel Washington was born on this day in Mount Vernon, NY. Washington will star in such films as Malcolm X, Glory, Much Ado about Nothing, and A Soldiers Story. He will have a start in television in his role on popular show St. Elsewhere. He will win an Academy Award for best supporting

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Dec

28

1954

Basketball star Walt Frazier born

Basketball legend Walt Frazier was born in

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Mar

29

1945

Boston, MA, blacks led by Masonic organizer and abolitionistPrince Hall, petit

Boston, MA, blacks led by Masonic organizer and abolitionist Prince Hall, petition the legislature for equal school facilities for blacks.

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Jan

0

1787

Slavery Abolishment

Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery. By 1783 slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law in 1780. Connecticut and Rhode Island barred slavery in 1784 and were followed by New York (gradual emancipation) and New

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Jul

2

1777

A Day of Elections

Edward W. Brooke elected attorney general of Massachusetts. Gerald Lamb elected treasurer of Connecticut. Otis M. Smith elected to a full term on the Michigan Supreme Court. Five Blacks, including one newcomer, were elected to the House of Representatives. The newcomer, Augustus F. Hawkins, was

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Nov

6

1962

New England Anti-Slavery Society

New England Anti-Slavery Society organized at African Baptist Church on Bostons Beacon Hill.

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Jan

6

1832

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