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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Alleged Murderer Was Allegedly Encouraged By Cops To Be A Vigilante
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Idi Amin
Idi Amin , in full Idi Amin Dada Oumee (born 1924/25, Koboko, Uganda—died August 16, 2003, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia), military officer and president (1971–79) of Uganda whose regime was noted for the sheer scale of its
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Mutodi’s firing was long overdue
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Blacks Protest Denial of Right to Vote
Blacks held a mass meeting in Philadelphia to protest the action of the Pennsylvania Reform Convention of 1837 which denied them the right to vote.
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14
1838
Overtime: Gatorade Hosting Livestream Watch Party of Michael Jordan’s Final Game On The Chicago Bulls
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George Grant
George F. Grant knew what most of us have come to recognize – the average golfer is a hacker, destroying grass courses and terrorizing other golfers, homeowners and passersby with wild, dangerous drives. Although he loved the game, he grew frustrated trying to keep the ball from rolling away from
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12
1899
Africa: COVID-19 Is a Health Crisis - but a Looming Food Catastrophe, Too
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Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action” - Birthday
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22
1924
Spingarn Medal: Robert R. Moton
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1932
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6
1935
Black patriots participated in the first
Black patriots participated in the first aggressive action of American forces, the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boy.
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10
1775
Jordan, Barbara (1936-1996)
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936. She received her education in public schools in Texas and graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956 with a B.A. in political science and history. Jordan then received her LL.B. from Boston University School
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1996
Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative 424 (2008)
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Bethune-Cookman University [Daytona Beach] (1904- )
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Africa: Harnessing Tech to Employ Last-Mile Tree Planters in a COVID-19 World
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(1968) Robert F. Kennedy, “On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
On April 4, 1968, during an Indianapolis, Indiana rally for his presidential campaign, attended by a large number of African Americans, Robert F. Kennedy, despite suggestions he shouldnt appear at all, decided to proceed and announce the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to a group unaware
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4
1968
Robert Smalls steals Confederate ship
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12
1862
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Dec
18
1859
Biography of Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
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Langston Hughes
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May
22
1967
(1836) Gag Rule/Pinckney Resolution 3
Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way or to any extent whatever to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be
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African Americans in Ghana
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NAJEE’S NOTES: Renaming a street in honor of Malcolm X
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Confounded: The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins
I am astounded.I cannot account for it, no one can.No one understands it, a St Louis man uttered after watching Blind Tomperform in concert in 1866. Hismystification was by no means isolated. Few other performers on thenineteenth century stage aroused as much curiosity as Blind Tom Wiggins. Borna
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