T&T Police Station Comes Under Attack

Estes, Simon (1938- )

Simon Lamont Estes is a prominent and critically acclaimed African American opera singer. He has made singing appearances before six US presidents, including Barack Obama, numerous other presidents and world leaders, and dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He has

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Katherine Dunham (1910-)

American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She was a pioneer in the use of folk and ethnic choreography, and considered one of the founders of the anthropological dance movement. With Aida in 1963, she became the first Black to choreograph for the Metropolitan Opera in New York city.

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6

2001

First Lutheran Baptism of African American

An African America man named Emmanuel was baptized April 13, 1669, (Palm Sunday) in a Lutheran congregation in New York.

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Apr

13

1669

First Scat Singing Ever Recorded

Don Redman performed the first recorded scat vocals while a member of Fletcher Hendersons Orchestra. Scat singing is an improvised vocal instrumentation composed of nonsense syllables. Don Redman scatted a few bars of My Papa Doesnt Two-Time No Time, recorded in New York by Columbia. Although Louis

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Apr

16

1924

Fort Pillow Massacre (1864)

On April 12, 1864, some 3,000 rebels under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest overran Fort Pillow, a former Confederate stronghold situated on a bluff on the Tennessee bank of the Mississippi, some 40 miles north of Memphis. The garrison consisted of about 600 Union soldiers, roughly evenly

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Apr

12

1864

Curtis Mayfield, singer born

Curtis Mayfield was born on the 3rd of june 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, where he quickly

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Jun

3

1942

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup a Violinist, married Anne Hampton on Christmas Day in 1828. In January of 1841 he was offered a job as a part-time violinist with a traveling band. This offer turned out to be a trick, where Solomon was sold into

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Jan

0

1841

Poet Countee Cullen wins Phi Beta Kappa award.

Poet Countee Cullen wins Phi Beta Kappa honors at New York University.

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Mar

28

1925

Documentary Films on Blackpast.org - African American History - Director

A&E Television Americas Black Warriors (on World War II) 1998

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Abbott, Anderson Ruffin (1837-1913)

Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Canada’s first black doctor, was born April 7, 1837 in Toronto, Ontario. He was the son of free black property owners William Ruffin Abbott and his wife Ellen (Toyer) Abbott who left Alabama after their store had been destroyed. They settled briefly in New York until

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Dec

29

1913

Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)

Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He is remembered as a lawyer who had one of the highest rates of success before the

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Satcher, David (1941- )

David Satcher, physician, educator, and administrator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941 to Wilmer and Anne Satcher. In 1963 Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He earned a M.D. and Ph.D. in cytogenetics from Case Western Reserve University in

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Mar

2

1941

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and former

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Jan

4

1958

Saddler, Joseph/Grandmaster Flash (1958 - )

Although he will more than likely be remembered best for releasing “The Message,” the first rap song to delve into social commentary about the plight of African Americans in the inner-city, Grandmaster Flash was also the original technological virtuoso of the early hip-hop movement to

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1712 - A New York act bans black mulatoos and Native Americans from home ownership.

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Jan

0

1712

Fort Lawton (Seattle) “Riot” and POW Lynching, 1944

On August 14, 1944, African American soldiers “rioted” against Italian prisoners of war at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, an Army staging area for combat in the Pacific. American officers and POWs under their guard were severely beaten. The next morning one of the POWs, Guglielmo Olivotto, was

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14

1944

William "Bill" Richmond is taken by General Earl Percy,commander of the Britis

William Bill Richmond is taken by General Earl Percy, commander of the British forces occupying New York, to England to box against British soldiers.

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Jan

0

1777

Arthur Ashe, the first winner of the U.S.Open

Arthur Ashe became the first winner of the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands at Forest Hills Stadium, New York.

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Sep

9

1968

(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”

Home

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NAACP Executive Director

Death of Roy Wilkins (80), longtime executive director of the NAACP, in New York.

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Sep

8

1981

Garrett Augustus Morgan

Born: 3/4/1877 Claysville Community, KentuckyDied: 7/27/1963 Cleveland, OhioGarrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an African-American inventor and community leader. An invention he worked on the development of a chemical for hair-straighteningAwards / Achievements:

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Ethiopia Invaded by Italy

Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior

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3

1935

New York Police Arrest 294 at Worlds Fair

New York police arrested 294 demonstrators at opening of World Fair.

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Apr

22

1964

Singer Leslie Uggams born

Singer Leslie Uggams, who made her singing debut with the Lawrence Welk Band, was born in New York city.

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May

25

1943

Did You Know That In...

1780 - Two blacks aid in the capture of British spy, Major John Andre, in New York.

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Jan

0

1780

Rebecca J. Cole--2nd Black Female Physician

Born: March 16, 1846

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Aug

14

1922

Slave conspiracies and fires cause Hysteria

Succession of suspicious fires and reports of slave conspiracies created hysteria in New York in March and April. Thirty-one slaves and five whites were executed.

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Mar

31

1741

(1838) James McCune Smith, “The Abolition Of Slavery And The Slave Trade In The French And British Colonies”

James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was a prominent physician and abolitionist. Smith was educated in the African Free School in New York City. When failing to be admitted to any American college, he enrolled in Glasgow University in Scotland in 1832 and earned three degrees including his medical

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9

1838

Colin L. Powell

Colin.L. Powell was born in 1937 in New York City,New York.

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Jan

0

1937

Fair Employment Practices Commission.

On March 12, 1945, New York was the first state to established a Fair Employment Practices Commission.

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Mar

12

1945

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