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Jack L. Cooper
The first public service programming aired on this day when Jack L. Cooper launched the Search for Missing Persons show.
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Dec
9
1938
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
Black Codes Issued in S.C.
South Carolina issues one of the first set of black codes to regulate the relations of persons of color. Among the codes included those of illegal interracial marriages, master apprentice relations and service contracts.
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Dec
21
1865
(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  His acceptance speech appears
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Dec
10
1964
Lynching in the South
171 Black People were lynched in the South in 1895
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Aug
0
1895
Trinidad and tobago
Prime Minister Manning called early elections in 2010 to prevent a no-confidence vote against him, and the Peoples Partnership coalition won 29 of 41 seats in the May vote. The ruling Peoples National Movement took 12 seats, bringing to an end four decades in power. Kamla Persad-Bissessar became
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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary
Nnamdi Azikiwe, by now the best know nationalist leader in Nigeria, addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its 50th anniversary celebration at the Polo Grounds, New York City, July 19, 1959. His speech appears
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Jul
19
1959
Bob Marley, reggae legend dies
Thursday, May 23,1981, the Honorable Robert Nesta
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May
23
1981
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker received the 1942 Yale Younger Poets Award for the collection, For My People.
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Jan
0
1942
Owens, Major Robert (1936- )
Former New York Congressman Major Robert Owens was born on June 28, 1936 in Collierville, Tennessee.  He graduated from Hamilton High School in Memphis in 1952 at the age of 16.  Owens received a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College in 1956, and an M.S. in Library Science from Atlanta
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Jun
28
1936
The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance
In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no visible African ancestry “pass” into the Caucasian race or other races to avoid the stigma associated with anti-black racial discrimination
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The first major conspiracy of people in Colonial America
The first major conspiracy of people in servitude was documented in Colonial America. A plot of black slaves and white servants was betrayed by a servant in Gloucester County, Virgina.
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Sep
13
1663
Turner, Nat
Turner, Nat, 1800–1831, American slave, leader of the Southampton Insurrection (1831), b. Southampton co., Va. Deeply religious from childhood, Turner was a natural preacher and possessed some influence among local slaves. Apparently believing himself divinely appointed to lead fellow slaves to
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Out of Control riots
Forty-three persons killed in rebellion in Detroit. Federal troops were called out for the first time since the Detroit riot of 1943 to quell the largest racial rebellion in a U.S. city in the twentieth century. More than two thousand persons were injured and some five thousand were
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Jul
23
1967
Black Lieutenant General
Maj. Gen. B.O. Davis Jr., assistant deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, named lieutenant general, the highest rank attained by a Black to date in the armed services.
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Apr
16
1965
Selma March begins
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads thousands of people on a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama to call for voting rights for African Americans.
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Mar
21
1965
The New Orleans Tribune
This was the date the first black daily newspaper was founded.
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Oct
4
1864
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in south-central Africa, is slightly smaller than California. It is bordered by Botswana on the west, Zambia on the north, Mozambique on the east, and South Africa on the
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Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
Fifty thousand demonstrators participated in Solidarity Day March of Poor Peoples Campaign. Marchers walked from Washington Monument to Lincoln Monument, where they were addressed by Vice-president Humphrey, presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, Coretta Scott King and Ralph Abernathy.
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Jun
19
1968
Black Civil War guerilla chief
Probably the Souths most noted guerilla chief was a Black man named
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Jan
0
1861
(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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(1905) Theodore Roosevelt, “Lincoln and the Race Problem”
On February 13, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech at the New York City Republican Club as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln.  The speech, which also allowed Roosevelt to expound on his contemporary views of race in the United States, appears
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Feb
13
1905
*Probable date of Prince Hall's birth
Prince Hall, Revolutionary War Veteran and founder of African Masonic Lodges, *may* have been born on this date. Though his accomplishments are well celebrated, little is known of Prince Halls early life.
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Feb
27
1788
abolition of slavery
On April 19, 1866, the African American citizensof Washington D.C. celebrated the abolition of slavery. 4,000 to 5,000 people assembled to the White House addressed by Andrew Johnson. Led by twoblack regiments the spectators, and the procession proceeded up the Pennsylvania Avenue to FranklinSquare
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Apr
19
1866
Progress In Africa
Africa is the worlds poorest nation plagued by aids. Since the outbreak of aids in the 1980s, almost 800,000 africans have died from the disease. the outlook is beginning to look better for Africa. Most of the children are living past the age of five. Africans think that everything is wonderful in
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Jan
0
1997
Windhoek, Namibia (1840- )
Windhoek, also known by its more traditional names—|Ai||Gams (in the Khoekhoe language) and Otjiomuise or Otjoherero, all of which mean “place by streams”—is the capital and largest city of Namibia, as well as its cultural and economic center.  Though likely named for the mountain
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Marjorie Joyner--patent for hair wave machine
Patent for a permanent wave machine which could
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Nov
27
1928
Samuel E. Cornish died on this date.
Samuel E. Cornish died on this date.
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Nov
6
1858
Courthouse shoot-out
Four persons, including the presiding judge, killed in courthouse shoot-out in San Rafael, Marin County, California. Police charged that activist Angela Davis helped provide the weapons used by the convicts and issued a nationwide warrant for her arrest. Davis went into hiding to avoid
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Jun
4
1972
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
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