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How Your Actions May Be Unintentionally Racist
In the aftermath of the presidential election of 2016, many people have experienced relationship blowouts with friends, family, romantic partners, and colleagues over accusations of racism. Many of those who voted for Donald Trump have found themselves accused of being racist, as well as
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Bray, Keve (1925--1972)
Seattle businessman and political activist Keve Bray played an essential role in the local civil rights movement and is especially notable for his role in the black power movement in the Central District.  Bray was born on June 9, 1925.  Very little is known about his childhood background.  By the
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Source: Black Past
Nov
17
1972
Mae Jemison: Astronaut, Physician
Born: October 17, 1956
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Oct
17
1956
Alice Walker Quotes
Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, has written fiction about African American womens experience. Alice Walker has also been an activist on environmental, feminist, and womanist causes, as well as working for racial and economic
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Union Bethel AME Church, Great Falls, Montana (1890- )
The Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Great Falls, Montana, is one of the state’s oldest active
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(1900) W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World,”
W.E.B. Dubois would eventually emerge as a founder of the NAACP, a leading human rights activists and the most important African American intellectual of the 20th Century. However those developments lay in the future when the 32-year-old DuBois gave the closing address at the first Pan African
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Jul
25
1900
Ota Benga, African native kept in zoo, kills self
An African native once kept in a Bronx zoo, Ota Benga, commits suicide. In 1906 the crowds thronged the monkey house exhibit at the Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park). Here were mans evolutionary ancestors - monkeys, chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, an orangutan named Dohung and a African of
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Mar
20
1916
Gerrymandering - Congressional Districts on Census Data
Every decade, following the decennial census, the state legislatures of the United States are told how many representatives their state will send to the United States House of Representatives. Representation in the House is based on state population and there are a total of 435 representatives, so
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1
2011
Blayton, Jesse B., Sr. (1879-1977)
Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., was a pioneer African American radio station entrepreneur.  Blayton founded WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 1949 making him the first African American to own and operate a radio station in the United
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Oct
3
1949
Robert Pelham
Robert Pelham was born in January of 1859 in Petersburg, Virginia. His parents, Robert and Frances Pelham, moved the family to Detroit, Michigan in hopes of finding a more favorable atmosphere for their children to receive an education and opportunities for decent employment. While enrolled in
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Nov
26
2012
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was a prominent African American leader born on June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was brought up in a liberal environment where his parents encouraged him to acquire an education and pursue his dreams. His mother taught him and his brother the works of classical
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26
1938
Race and Color in A California Coastal Community: The Seaside Story
In the following article Dr. Carol Lynn McKibben, Director of the Seaside History Project, City of Seaside, California, and Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University, describes the subject of her research, Seaside, California, and specifically the unusual history of the African American
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Fair Count’s I Count Bus Tour: Remix for the 2020 Census arrives in East Georgia | Atlanta Daily World
Fair Count’s I Count Bus Tour: Remix for the 2020 Census arrives in East Georgia Atlanta, GA Fair Count’s virtual bus tour arrives in East Georgia this evening at 7pm for another stop of the I Count Bus Tour: Remix in an effort to increase participation in the 2020 Census. The tour began on June
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(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964.  On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam.  In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.  While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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Ruby Bridges
“I learned a very valuable lesson, and it is that we should not ever look up at a person or judge them by the color of their skin, that’s the lesson I have learned in first grade.” ~  Bridges
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Sep
8
1954
Black Panther Party Founder Born
Black Panther Party Founder Huey P. Newton born. An illiterate high-school graduate, Newton taught himself how to read before attending Merritt College in Oakland and the San Francisco School of Law, where he met Seale. In Oakland in 1966 they formed the Black Panther group in response to
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Feb
17
1942
Mark Dean
Born in Jefferson City, Tennessee on March 2, 1957, Mark Dean found that success ran in his bloodlines. His grandfather was a high school principal and his father worked as a supervisor for the Tennessee Valley Authority Dam. A bright and energetic child, he often endured questions from grade
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Toni Morrison
Born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison is an American author, editor and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature for being an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of
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Feb
18
1931
Black Panther Party
Founded in October of 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) became the most famous black power organization of the late 1960s.  Newton and Seale met in 1965 at Merritt College where they were exposed to a burgeoning wave of Black
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(1966) Stokely Carmichael, “Definitions of Black Power”
On July 31, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the newly appointed Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), describes black power to a mostly African American audience at Cobo Auditorium in Detroit.  Part of the address appears
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Jul
31
1966
The Great Migration
The Great Migration began. Approximately two million Southern Blacks moved to Northern industrial centers in the following
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Dec
4
1915
United Black Front (UBF) or Black United Front (BUF)
The United Black Front (also known as the Black United Front) was created in the late 1960s as a coalition of 50 black power organizations seeking to address four major objectives: the elimination of white oppression, increased economic and political power for blacks, better education and social
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11
1969
Congdon Street Baptist Church (1819- )
Congdon Street Baptist Church is the oldest African American church in Rhode Island. The church, located on College Hill, sprang from the effort of the black community in the city to provide a place for people of color to worship and a locale for a secular school for black children in the
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Mar
9
1819
Lynching in the South
171 Black People were lynched in the South in 1895
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0
1895
WGPR-TV (1975–1995)
WGPR-TV (Where God’s Presence Radiates) was the first television station in the United States owned and operated by African Americans. The station, located in Detroit, Michigan, was founded by William Venoid Banks. WGPR-TV marketed toward the urban audience in Detroit, Michigan, which in that
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Adams, Henry [Kentucky] (1802–1872)
Henry Adams was a prominent black Baptist minister and advocate for African American education who worked in Georgia and later in Louisville, Kentucky. Adams was born in Franklin County, Georgia in 1802.  He obtained a license to preach at the age of 18 and was ordained on October 29, 1825.  Adams
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29
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Important Cities in African-American History
African Americans have contributed tremendously to the culture of the United States. First brought to America hundreds of years ago to work as slaves, blacks won their freedom after the 19th century Civil War. However, many blacks remained very poor and moved throughout the country seeking better
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Botswana
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BlackPast.org - To Understand the Present, You Must Enter the Past
BlackPast.org is a one-stop shop for everything you want to know about African-American history. Chock full of robust, easy to use features and one of a kind facts and information, everyone will find something of value in this amazing website. Watch this brief video to learn more. Visit the
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