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Black Newborns Are Safest In The Hands Of Black Doctors, Study Finds - Blavity

A new study has found that newborn Black babies are more likely to survive if delivered by Black doctors.

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African Americans in Tampa, Florida rebelled after an African American man was killed by a white police officer while in custody.

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21

1987

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

First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born,

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Jul

18

1753

Chicago's first African American mayor, Harold Washington, was born.

Chicagos first African American mayor, Harold Washington, was born.

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Apr

15

1922

George H. White

Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ended at noon.

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Mar

4

1901

Daniel Hale Williams, 1st physician to perform open heart surgeryis born.

Daniel Hale Williams, 1st physician to perform open heart surgery is born.

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Jan

18

1858

W.E.B. Du Bois died

W.E.B. Du Bois (95), scholar, protest leader and a founder of the NAACP, died in

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Aug

27

1963

Chemist Percy Julian born

Chemist Percy Julian born in Montgomery, Alabama. Julian studied at DePauwm, Fisk, Harvard and Vienna (Germany) Universities. In his lifetime he discovered several synthetic substances including one that made paint water-tight, cortisone and a fire suppressing foam.

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Apr

11

1899

The 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all African American

The 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all African American unit is formed and the Tuskegee Training Program is established, the 99th will fly more than 500 missions and more than 3,700 sorties during one year of combat before being combined with the 332nd Fighter Group.

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Jan

16

1941

United States population: 5,308,483

United States population: 5,308,483. Black population 1,002,037 (18.9 per cent).

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Jan

30

1800

Violette Neatley Anderson

Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court

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Jan

29

1926

Col Frederick D Gregory becomes the first African American to lead a space missi

Col Frederick D Gregory becomes the first African American to lead a space mission.

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Nov

22

1989

Baseball Great Jackie Robinson born

In Cairo, Georgia on this date baseball great Jackie Robinson was born. The fifth African American to play major league baseball with a white team, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, ending five decades of segregated baseball. At the time of his retirement in October 1972, Robinson is

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Jan

31

1919

Congressman William H. Gray is elected chairman

Congressman William H. Gray is elected chairman of the House Budget Committee, the highest congressional post held by an African American.

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Jan

4

1985

Richard Parsons

Richard Parsons, CEO of Dime Savings Bank, the first African American CEO of a large non minority U.S. savings institution, born.

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Apr

4

1942

Prince Hall Masonry founded

Prince Hall founded Africa Lodge No. 1. It was the first Black Lodge of Free Masons in the United States.

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Jul

3

1775

Spingarn Medal: Clarence Mitchell Jr.

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Dec

4

1969

William D. Crum

William D. Crum (1859-1912), a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia.

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Jun

13

1910

Opera singer Marian Anderson born

Opera singer Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anderson was entered in the New York Philharmonic Competition at age 17 by her music teacher, and placed first over 299 other singers. Awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1930, Anderson went to Europe for a year of study. She

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Feb

27

1902

Max Robinson, first African American news anchor for a major television network

Max Robinson, first African American news anchor for a major television network died today.

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Dec

20

1988

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first African American to graduate from a nursing school, graduates from the nursing program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children

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Aug

1

1879

Rebellion After Suspicious Death During Arrest

In Tampa,Florida, a rebellion followed the suspicious death of Edgar Allen Price, a police suspect who died during an arrest. Police contended that Price hit his head on the ground several times.

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Feb

2

1989

Anti-Slavery Law

The provisional governor of Florida abolishes slavery by proclamation.

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Aug

3

1865

Pan-African Congress Meeting

Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met a Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen from the United States and fourteen from Africa form sixteen countries and colonies. Blaise Diagne of Senegal was elected president and Du Bois was named secretary.

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Feb

19

1919

Daniel Alexander Payne

On this date in 1893, Daniel A. Payne died. The sixth bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, Payne was the first African American ordained by the Lutheran Church in 1837. In 1856, he founded Wilberforce University, where he became the first Black president of a college in America. Payne

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Feb

24

1811

Lydia Holmes patents wood toys

Lydia M. Holmes St. Augustine, Florida Patent No. 2,529,692 on November 14, 1950 are the plans for several easily assembled wooden pull toys including a bird, a truck and dog.

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Nov

14

1950

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist, President of California State University, Fullerton, the first African American to hold such as position in the CSU system, born.

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Jan

17

1924

The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical

The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School (later Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science) is chartered in Los Angeles. It is the only African American focused medical school west of the Mississippi

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Aug

2

1966

U.S. Navy 1st Black Officer

In 1942, the U.S. Navy commissions its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

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Jun

18

1999

Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams

Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, the first African American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl game, is named MVP in Super Bowl XXII.

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Jan

31

1988

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