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Black History Month: Clintel Hasan Wants to Create a Beloved Community | The Madison Times

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz During the Civil Rights Movement, leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and bell hooks, talked about creating a beloved community, a place based on justice and equity and where people seek understanding. Amidst the hurt and violence so often seen and depicted in the world, a beloved community can seem […]

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(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”

Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public

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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

Voter registration drive, led by Martin Luther

Voter registration drive, led by Martin Luther King Jr., started in Selma, Alabama.

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Jan

2

1965

Martin Luther King was denied freedom of speech!

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Jun

26

1967

Martin Luther King Jr gives his I Have A Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 1963

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Aug

28

1963

Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George “Sammy” Davis, Jr. simply known as Sammy Davis Jr., was an acclaimed American entertainer of the 20th century. Born in Harlem, New York on December 8, 1925, Davis spent the better half of his life enjoying the rare skill of making other people happy. While he was primarily

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Women's Auxiliary Volunteers for Emerge

The first African American women complete officer training for the WAVES (Womens Auxiliary Volunteers for Emergency Service). They had been admitted to the corps two months earlier.

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Dec

13

1944

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Running for President: George Edwin Taylor, 1904

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Martin Luther King Jr. jailed

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Jul

27

1962

Martin Luther King Jr

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Sep

20

1958

Executive Order 9981, to end segregation in US Armed Forces is signed by Preside

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Jan

26

1948

Stokely Carmichael

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Riot in Milwaukee

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Jul

30

1967

Martin Luther King Jr. arrested

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Jul

10

1962

Black History Week

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Feb

7

1926

Martin Luther King,Jr. Ordained

Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister

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Feb

25

1948

Nation Guard mobilized to protect marchers

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Aug

28

1966

Singer Al Jarreau born

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May

12

1940

Never has the sport of boxing seen such an exhaustive transformation as that in the career of George Edward Foreman, who started off as a world-renowned boxer and later became an ordained Christian minister. Born in Marshall, Texas on January 10, 1949, the 6 foot 3 inch tall American has a lot of

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Jan

10

1949

Evans, Melvin Herbert (1917–1984)

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Jan

3

1979

First Lt. Nancy C. Leftenant became the first Black accepted in the regular army nursing corps.

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Feb

12

1948

COINTELPRO Memorandum

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Mar

3

1968

Thelonious Monk

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Oct

10

1917

I've Been To The Mountaintop

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Apr

3

1968

Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation

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Nov

25

1955

Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago)

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3

1919

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Aug

7

1930

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2012

African American History: Bibliography

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