Race riot, Paterson, New Jersey

O’Leary, Hazel Rollins Reid (1937- )

The first and only woman to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of Energy, Hazel Rollins Reid was born May 17, 1937 in Newport News, Virginia. During this time of public school segregation, Reid’s parents, hoping for better schooling opportunities, sent their daughter to live with an aunt in New

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1993

Race riot, Elizabeth, New Jersey

Race riot, Elizabeth, New Jersey. (8/12-13).

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Aug

12

1964

Race riot, Philadelphia

Race riot, Philadelphia. Three whites and one Black were killed.

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Jul

26

1918

African Americans in Atlanta

Atlanta has long been known as a center of black wealth, political power and culture; a cradle of the Civil Rights Movement [1] and home to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It has often been called a black

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Hosanna School Museum’s 4th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Commemorates 400 Years of Perseverance Through History, Culture and Achievement | Afro

Hosanna School Museum’s 4th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Commemorates 400 Years of Perseverance Through History, Culture and Achievement

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Coleman, Bonnie Watson (1945– )

Bonnie Watson Coleman has served as the U.S. House of Representatives for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District since January 3, 2015. The 12th District includes Princeton University and major parts of the Middlesex and Mercer Counties. Coleman is the first African American woman to represent

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Alicia Keys To Host Nickelodeon Special On Race In America

Nickelodeon plans to revive its acclaimed Nick News franchise with an hour-long special about race that will aim to promote the voices and experiences of Black children across the

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

African American History: Bibliography

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Patton, Lynne (1973- )

In June 2017, Lynne Patton, Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation and a senior assistant to Eric Trump, was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Region II office which manages the department’s activities in New York and New

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Cory Booker

Cory Booker | FactMonster

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Race riot, Beaumont, Texas

Race riot, Beaumont, Texas. Two killed.

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Jun

16

1943

Race, Family, and Real Estate: Beryl Satter's Family Properties

In her new book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, historian Beryl Satter puts a human face on the often told story of racial discrimination in urban housing by following the career of her father, Chicago attorney Mark J. Satter, who was both an

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Race riots in Omaha Nebraska

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Jul

3

1966

Alabama State University [Montgomery] (1867-- )

Alabama State University is a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded less than two years after the end of the Civil War as the Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama, it is one of the oldest HBCUs in the United States. Nine ex-slaves, Joey Pinch, Thomas

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Jun

30

1880

Taylor, George Edwin (1857-1925)

Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor would become the first African American selected by a political party to be its candidate for the presidency of the United

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Nov

20

1904

COVID-19 data sharing with law enforcement sparks concern

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Public health officials in at least two-thirds of U.S. states are sharing the addresses of people who have the coronavirus with first

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Black mecca

A black mecca, in the United States, is a city to which African Americans, particularly professionals,[1] are drawn to live, due to some or all of the following

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Coronavirus Update: Diabetics Are More Likely To Develop Severe Complications from COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) specifically lists people with diabetes as having a higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus than the general

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Virginia Becomes 1st Southern State To Outlaw Hair Discrimination | Afro

Virginia has officially become the first southern U.S. state to ban hair discrimination based on racial identifiers including hair texture and hair

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Race riot, Atlanta

Race riot, Atlanta.

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Sep

6

1966

African American History in the West Bibliography Authors & Editors

Abajian, James de T. Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings Through 1970 Yes

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African American History and Women Timeline 1980-1989

[Previous] [Next] Angela Davis ran for Vice President on the Communist Party ticket. She became Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, a position she held until 1984. Janie L. Mines graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. She was the first African American

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African America’s First Protest Meeting: Black Philadelphians Reject the American Colonization Society Plans for Their Resettlem

In the following account historian William L. Katz revisits an essay he first wrote in 1968 as the introduction to the reprinted volume of William Lloyd Garrison’s Thoughts on African Colonization which was first published in 1832. In the article below he describes the first mass protest meeting at

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Protests Erupt in Atlanta, Both Peaceful and Riots, In Response to Black American Deaths

Noted thus far in year 2020 are three renowned killings: Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and George Floyd in

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Source: Headlines - The Atlanta Inquirer

Easley v. Cromartie (2001)

* Governor Michael F. Easley is hereby substituted for former Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., pursuant to this Courts Rule

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Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Marvelous Marvin Hagler was a world middleweight boxing champion and is known as one of the greatest boxers of the 1970s and 1980s. He was born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler on May 23, 1954 in New Jersey. His family’s property was destroyed in the 1967 Newark Riots, after which they relocated to

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May

23

1954

From ‘defund the police’ to its obvious next step

The protests triggered by the recent murders of George Floyd and other African Americans have produced widespread demands to “defund the

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Identifying Race-Based Stereotypes and Myths

Race-based stereotypes and myths pose a great threat to racial equality. That’s because they can lead to prejudice and hatred, which, in turn, lead to discrimination against entire ethnic groups. The people who make up any given racial group are so unique that no generalization can capture who they

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COMMENTARY: Law And Order And White Supremacy

The rape of my African American great-grandmother by a white man was ignored by law enforcement authorities in the western North Carolina county where the crime was committed because it was not that unusual an

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Left of Black with Eric Deggans

Left of Black- Season 3, Episode 13

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Jul

24

2013

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