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Congress passed resolution readmitting the state
Congress passed resolution readmitting the state of Tennessee.
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24
1866
Louisiana legislature met in New Orleans
Louisiana legislature met in New Orleans. The temporary chairman of the house was a Black representative, R.H. Isabelle. Oscar J. Dunn presided over the senate. Seven of the thirty-six senators were Black. Thirty-five of the 101 representatives were Black.
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Jun
29
1868
Black state convention at Macon, Georgia,
Black state convention at Macon, Georgia, protested expulsion of Black politicians from Georgia legislature.
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Oct
6
1868
Johnson, Jack (1878-1946)
Jack Johnson, the first African American and first Texan to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world, was born the second of six children to Henry and Tiny Johnson in Galveston on March 31, 1878.  His parents were former slaves.  To help support his family, Jack Johnson left school in
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White conservatives suppressed Black vote
White conservatives suppressed Black vote and captured Tennessee legislative in election marred by assassinations and widespread violence. Campaign effectively ended Radical Reconstruction in North Carolina. The conservative legislature impeached Governor Holden on December 14.
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Aug
6
1870
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia sānt lo͞o´shə, –sēə [key], island nation (2005 est. pop. 166,000), 238 sq mi (616 sq km), West Indies, one of the Windward Islands. The capital is Castries . Morne Gimie (3,145 ft/959 m high) and the twin pyramidal cones known as the Pitons are the most imposing landmarks. The country
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1st Black to argue impeachment
Cheryl Mills, White House Deputy Counsel, becomes the first Black to argue a case before a U.S. Senate impeachment hearing in the case of Pres. William Clinton.
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Jan
20
1999
Mark Dean
Born: 3/2/1957 Jefferson City, TennesseeMark E. Dean is an American inventor and a computer engineer. He was part of the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of IBMs original nine PC patentsBusiness
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Death of Arna Bontemps
Death of Arna Bontemps (72), writer and educator, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Jun
4
1973
Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868).
Born in Danville, Vermont, in 1792, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1814, and moved to York, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Gettysburg, PA for fourteen
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Jul
4
1861
Republican Benjamin Harrison elected president
Republican Benjamin Harrison elected president.
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Nov
6
1888
Four national chain stores announced
Four national chain stores announced on October 17 that counters in about 150 stores in 112 cities in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Oklahoma had been integrated.
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Mar
1
1960
Lower house of Georgia legislature
Lower house of Georgia legislature, ruling that Blacks were ineligible to hold office, expelled twenty-eight representatives. Ten days later the senate expelled three Blacks. Congress refused to admit the state until the legislature seated the Black representatives.
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Sep
3
1868
Singer Johnny Ace born
R&B singer Johnny Ace was born John Marshall Alexander, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. His major hits include My Song and Pledging My Love.
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Jun
9
1929
Edward W. Brooke
Edward W. Brooke (Republican, Massachusetts) elected to U.S. Senate and became the first Black senator since the Reconstruction era and the first Black senator elected by popular vote. Racial violence was reported in forty-three cities in 1966, with eleven killed, more than four hundred injured and
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Nov
8
1966
Murray, George Washington (1853–1926)
South Carolina Congressman George Washington Murray was born near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina, on September 22, 1853 to slave parents. He attended public schools, the University of South Carolina, and the State Normal Institute at Columbia, where he graduated in 1876. After
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Martin Luther King Jr's Death
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated by white sniper in Memphis, Tennessee. Assassination precipitated a national crisis and rioting in more than one hundred cities. Forty-six persons were killed in major rebellions in Washington, Chicago and other cities. Twenty thousand federal troops and
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Apr
4
1968
U.S. Refuses to Seat P.B.S. Pinchback
U.S. Senate refuses to seat P.B.S. Pinchback, elected Senator from Louisiana in 1873, after three years of controversy.
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Mar
8
1876
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Born: 5/7/1905 Seattle, WashingtonLavizzo-Mourey heads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest healthcare foundation in the U.S. She became the CEO in 2003, a position which has her overseeing an estimated 800 grants, a $10 billion endowment and annual disbursements of more than $450
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P.B.S. Pinchback
P.B.S. Pinchback elected to the U. S. Senate. Since he had previously been elected to Congress, he went to Washington with the unique distinction of being both a senator-elect and a congressman-elect.
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Jan
14
1873
Riot, Memphis, National Guard mobilized
Riot, Memphis, National Guard mobilized.
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Jul
20
1967
Arkansas legislature required free Blacks to
Arkansas legislature required free Blacks to choose between exile and enslavement.
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Feb
28
1859
Lodge Bill
Lodge Bill, which called for federal supervision of U. elections, abandoned in the Senate after a Southern filibuster.
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Jan
22
1891
Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
Democratic governor elected in Tennessee.
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Nov
8
1870
Republican James A. Garfield
Republican James A. Garfield elected president.
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Nov
2
1880
Georgia legislature met
Georgia legislature (34 Black, 186 white) met in Atlanta.
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4
1868
Blacks voted for the first time in a state
Blacks voted for the first time in a state election in the South, contributing to Republican sweep in Tennessee.
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Aug
1
1867
Blacks Education Attempt Denied
The Blair Bill provided federal support for education and allocated funds to reduce illiteracy among the freedmen was defeated in the Senate, 37-31.
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Mar
20
1890
Fiftieth Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation
Black Americans celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation. Major celebrations were held at Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans and Nashville. Three states--Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey--appropriated money for official celebrations of the event.
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29
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