A Look Back On The Legacy Of Basketball Hall Of Famer Dikembe Mutombo

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A Look Back On The Legacy Of Basketball Hall Of Famer Dikembe Mutombo

Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who was known for his shot-blocking and famed finger wave, died Monday from brain cancer aged 58, according to the NBA.

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Leonard Randolph Wilkens was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 1937, son of an African American father and white mother. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, one of the toughest sections in the city, where he endured many hardships, including the loss of his father at a young

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In 2006, former president Taylor, in exile in Nigeria, was turned over to an international court in The Hague to face trial on charges of crimes against humanity for supporting rebel troops in Sierra Leones brutal civil war that claimed the lives of about 300,000 people in the 1990s. The rebels

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Michael Jeffery Jordan is an American basketball legend who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards for 15 seasons. Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. In high school he played baseball, football, and basketball. When he

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17

1963

April 3, 1944. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling declared that Blacks could not be barred form voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The high court repudiated the contention that political parties are private associations and held that discrimination aginst Blacks violated the 15th

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3

1944

Supreme Court Ruling for Separate and Equal

Supreme Court ruled in railroad Jim Crow case brought by Congressman Arthur Mitchell that separate facilities must be substantially equal.

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Apr

28

1941

The Dred Scott decision.

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6

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Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist

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Aug

31

1970

Supreme Court decision

Supreme Court decision (Nixon v. Herndon) struck down Texas law which barred Blacks from voting in white primary.

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Mar

7

1927

Butterfield, George Kenneth, Jr. (1947– )

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Apr

27

1947

The Fight For Meredith's Education

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Board of Higher Education of Mississippi to admit Meredith to the university or be held in contempt.

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Sep

24

1962

Gayton, John T. (1866-1954)

John T. Gayton, one of Seattle, Washington’s earliest black residents, a community leader, and patriarch of one of the city’s most outstanding black families, came to Seattle in 1889. He was born in Benton, Mississippi to former slaves. With little formal education, he moved to Yazoo

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In "Re Franck Negro," a Massachusetts court finds a black man not guilty of co

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Thurgood Marshall announces retirement

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28

1991

U.S. Supreme Court in landmark Brown v. Board of

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May

17

1954

Supreme Court in Baltimore case banned segregation

Supreme Court in Baltimore case banned segregation in public recreational facilities.

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Nov

7

1955

U.S. Supreme Court decision

U.S. Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v. Warley) struck down Louisville, Ky., ordinance which required Blacks and whites to live in separate residential areas.

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Nov

5

1917

Browder v. Gayle (1956)

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David Robinson is a retired professional basketball player who is colloquially known as ‘The Admiral’ thanks to his prior service to the United States

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1965

Dred Scott was a slave who lived during the early 19th century and was the first slave who sued his master for freedom in a court of law. He was born into slavery in Virginia and was the property of the Peter Blow family. His birth name was Sam, but he changed it to Dred after his dead brother. The

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Supreme Court reversed decision of lower court

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Jun

30

1958

Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago)

Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago), the first old-line legal reserve company organized by Blacks in the North, incorporated. U.S. Supreme Court (Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia) banned segregation in interstate bus travel.

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Jun

3

1919

Admittance of student to U of California Medical

U.S. Supreme Court ordered the University of California Medical School at Davis to admit Allan P. Bakke in so-called reverse discrimination suit.

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Jun

28

1978

California Supreme Court voided state statue

California Supreme Court voided state statue banning interracial marriages. Edward Dudley named ambassador to Liberia. Spingarn Medal Presented to Channing H. Tobias for his consistent role as a defender of fundamental American liberties.

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Oct

1

1948

First African American Before US Supreme Court

John Sweat Rock (1825-1866), a noted Boston lawyer, became in 1865 the first African-American to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black person to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Feb

1

1865

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

The Dred Scott v. Sandford case (1857) was the most important slavery-related decision in the United States Supreme Court’s history. Coming on the eve of the Civil War, and seven years after the Missouri Compromise of 1850, the decision affected the national political scene, impacted the rights of

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The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (2006)

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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Constitutional Clauses

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Apr

27

1903

Young, Coleman A. (1918-1997)

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Coleman Young arrived in Detroit, Michigan with his family when he was five. The Colemans settled in the working class neighborhood of Black Bottom (East Detroit), where his father operated a dry cleaning business and his mother was a schoolteacher. Early in his life

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William Hastie nominated for the U.S. Circuit

William Hastie nominated for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was the first Black to sit on the court.

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Oct

15

1949

Elgin Gay Baylor was a professional basketball player, who played for Los Angeles Lakers. He was born on September 16, 1934 and began playing basketball from an early age. Two of his older brothers were also basketball players, and Baylor took naturally to the game. He was already known to be

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