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A main thoroughfare in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood resembled a war zone Saturday, with protesters reportedly throwing rocks, bottles, liquid-filled balloons, fireworks and other explosives ...

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James Meredith is a 20th century eminent American Civil Rights Movement figure. He was involved in political advisory committee and also wrote about the social inequality issues. Besides, he was a war veteran and was the first black to be admitted in an all-white

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1933

Col. B. O.Davis Jr.

Col. B.O. Davis Jr. assumed command of Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio.The Tuskegee Airmen are the black pilots, bombardiers, navigators and support personnel trained during World War II. The fighter pilots of the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, led by

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1946

Central State University [Ohio] (1887- )

Central State University (CSU) was one of the first colleges in the United states to be administered by African Americans. It was also unique as a state-funded institution which for sixty years was part of a private college. The school’s beginnings can be traced back to 1856 and the establishment

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Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan in starring roles.

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1943

Ethiopia Invaded by Italy

Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior

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1935

Garcia And Fort Negro: After the War of 1812, over three hundred African Americans occupied an abandoned British fort on the banks of the Apalachicola River in what is now Florida. Known as Fort Negro, it was headed by an African American man named Garcia. The heavily armed fort became a symbol of

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1816

Many patents are developed in response to the frustration involved in having to perform a repetitive task in order to complete a more important one. For John L. Love, this repetitive task was having to stop writing notes or letters in able to pull out his knife to whittle his pencil down to a point

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The Great Migration

The Great Migration began. Approximately two million Southern Blacks moved to Northern industrial centers in the following

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Glenn Harrington, Carmel, California

Glenn Harrington, is a native of Massachusetts, who has lived in the Seattle area since 1968. He was educated at Gordon College and Suffolk University Law School, both in Massachusetts. His business career was primarily as an Insurance Executive, serving as Vice President of Marketing and

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Order alerting regular army units for possible riot duty in other Southern cities canceled by Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker.

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1957

William H. Hastie

William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigned to protest segregation and discrimination in armed forces.

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1943

Muhammad Ali, (born Cassius Clay) stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the US Army during the Vietnam War(Clay v- United States). He is asked How can you be a pacifist opposed to the idea of

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1970

Abbott, Anderson Ruffin (1837-1913)

Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Canada’s first black doctor, was born April 7, 1837 in Toronto, Ontario. He was the son of free black property owners William Ruffin Abbott and his wife Ellen (Toyer) Abbott who left Alabama after their store had been destroyed. They settled briefly in New York until

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1913

Agrippa Hull: Revolutionary Patriot

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1848

King, Marjorie Edwina Pitter (1921-1996)

Marjorie Edwina Pitter King, the youngest of the Pitter sisters, was born March 8, 1921, to Edward A. Pitter and Marjorie Allen Pitter, in Seattle, Washington. When she graduated from Garfield High School, she joined her sisters at the University of Washington to study for an accounting degree in

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Blacks in Battle

In one of the decisive battles of the war, two brigades of Black troops helped crush one of the Souths finest armies at the Battle of Nashville. Black troops opened the battle on the first day and successfully engaged the right of the rebel line. On the second day Col. Charles R. Thompsons Black

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Dec

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1864

Ray, Emma (1859-1930)

For nearly thirty years, Emma Ray, who was born into slavery and raised in poverty in Missouri, ministered to the poor and homeless in Seattle slums along with her husband, L.P. They came to Seattle following the 1889 fire in order for L.P. to find work as a stonemason. Shortly after, they were

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Barnett, Powell S. (1883-1971)

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1949

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1862

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1968

Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian (1898-1975) - In 1935, Dr. Julian synthesized the drug physotigmine which is used today in the treatment of glaucoma. He later headed the soybean research department of the Glidden Company and then formed Julian Laboratories in order to specialize in the production of sterols

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1935

Soldier & patriot James Robinson is born. When he won a medal for bravery at th

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(1895) John H. Smyth, “The African in Africa and the African in America”

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Namibia gains independence

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Taye Diggs was born on January 2, 1971 in Newark, New Jersey. He is the oldest of five children born to Marcia and Andre Young. Diggs grew up in Rochester, New York where he attended Allendale Columbia School. He later transferred to School of the Arts. He also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from

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1971

BLACK NAMED CHIEF SWEEPER

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1910

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1940

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1942

Black Panther Leaders Killed

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