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Breaking news: BBI Reggae stopped by High court, Handshake in ICU

A five-judge bench of the constitutional court on Thursday poked holes in the Building Bridges Initiative sponsored constitution amendment process. In a move seen to defend the constitution and sovereignty of the people of Kenya, the judges shredded the process to the extent of terming the BBI Steering Committee unconstitutional. Judges Prof Joel Ngugi, George […]

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24

1893

Walter E. Washington

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6

1967

Jefferson Davis Signed Bill

Jefferson Davis signed bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers in the Confederate army.

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Mar

13

1861

Social Movement

April 3, 1962. In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the Birmingham,AL, City Commission voted not to pay the citys $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP

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Apr

3

1962

Forty-fourth Congress (1875-77) Convened

Forty-fourth Congress (1875-77) convened with historic high of eight Blacks. One U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi. Seven Black congressmen: Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; John R. Lynch, Mississippi; John A. Hyman, North Carolina; Charles E. Nash, Louisiana; Joseph

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Dec

6

1875

J. Milton Turner

J. Milton Turner named minister to Liberia and became the first Black diplomat accredited to an African county. James W. Mason was named minister in March, 1870, but never traveled to his post.

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Mar

1

1871

South Africa's Pan Africanist Congress suspended its armed struggle against the

South Africas Pan Africanist Congress suspended its armed struggle against the government of President F.W. de Klerk.

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Jan

16

1994

Rebel Troops take Kisangani, Zaire

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1997

On this day in 1874, Congressman Robert Brown Elliot deliveredone of the most

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Jan

6

1874

President Johnson signed Economic Opportunity Act

President Johnson signed Economic Opportunity Act.

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Aug

20

1964

First Black Secretary of State: Colin L. Powell

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20

2001

Reconstruction program announced

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May

29

1865

First Abiocor recipient dies

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Nov

30

2001

California Fugitive Slave Law adopted

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Apr

15

1850

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the

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Aug

29

1957

Government: Washington state.

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7

2001

Arkansas legislature required free Blacks to

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Feb

28

1859

Adelbert H. Roberts was elected to the Illinois state legislature---the first bl

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Jan

10

1925

Ohio legislature passed the first of a succession

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Jan

5

1804

Political Upset

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Nov

7

1978

First Black Appointed To a Presidential Cabinet

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Jan

13

1966

Nomination of Judge John J. Parker

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Mar

31

1930

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

Spottiswood W. Robinson

Spottiswood W. Robinson, representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, dean of the Howard University Law School, member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Circuit Judge of the D.C. Circuit, born

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26

1916

Etta Moten sings for President

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Jan

31

1934

Slaves Petition for Freedom

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25

1773

Boston, MA, blacks led by Masonic organizer and abolitionistPrince Hall, petit

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Jan

0

1787

Protection of Black Voters

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Sep

8

1875

Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985).

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1924

Delegation urges suffrage for blacks

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