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NAACP began a coordinated attack on segregation
NAACP began a coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination, filing a suit against the University of North Carolina on behalf of Thomas Hocutt. Case was lost on a technicality after the president of a Black college refused to certify the records of the plaintiff.
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Mar
15
1933
Carter G. Woodson's Birth
Carter G.Woodson, founder of Black History Month, born in New Canton, Buckingham County, Virginia.
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Dec
19
1875
Booker T. Washington
Born: 4/5/856 Hales FordDied: /4/95 Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.Booker T. Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 890 and 95, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last
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(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”
Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans.  By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa.   One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister
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Jul
4
1830
Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting
Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting. One Black and one white were killed. Knights of White Camelia, a paramilitary white supremacist organization, founded in Louisiana.
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May
14
1867
African American History: Bibliography
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Askia Muhammad Toure
Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), established the Askia dynasty of
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Jan
0
0
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Founded
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first organization of black Greek sisterhood was founded on this date at Howard University in Washington, D. C. by Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle).
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Jan
15
1908
NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood
NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood told the NAACP convention that the Nixon administration was anti-Negro and was pressing a calculated Policy inimical to the needs and aspirations of the large majority of citizens.
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Jun
29
1970
Negro History Week Begins
What is now known as Black History Month, was first celebrated on this date as Negro History Week by Carter G. Woodson. It became a month long celebration in 1976.
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Feb
1
1926
Race riot, Springfield, Illinois
Race riot, Springfield, Illinois. Troops called out. Riot led to the founding of NAACP. (8/14-19).
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Aug
14
1908
John Mercer Langston, born
Congressman, attorney, diplomat, dean of the law school and president of Howard University, John Mercer Langston was born, 1829
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Dec
14
1829
March 24,1837 Canada gives Blacks the right to vote.1865 Black troops ar
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Jan
0
2001
Malcolm X
Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of
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Walter F. White honored by NAACP
Walter F. White, an Atlanta-born writer and civil rights leader, was honored by the NAACP in New York City for his work as the organizations Executive Secretary, his investigations of lynchings, and his lobbying for a federal anti-lynching law.
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Jul
2
1937
Charles Hamilton Houston was born on this day.
NAACP leader, Charles Hamilton Houston was born on this day.
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Sep
3
1895
Howard University was founded, 1865
Howard University was founded, 1865
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Nov
20
1865
Second Executive Director of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins was born, 1901
Second Executive Director of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins was born, 1901
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Aug
30
1901
(1856) Sara G. Stanley Addresses The Convention Of Disfranchised Citizens Of Ohio
In January 1856, Sara G. Stanley, representing the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Delaware, Ohio, addressed the all-male Convention of Disfranchised Citizens of Ohio who met at the Columbus City Hall. She called upon the forty delegates who included among their ranks John Mercer Langston, Peter
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Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. US
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Dec
18
1944
Death of Walter White
Death of Walter White (61), New York City. Roy Willkins succeeded him as NAACP executive, April 11.
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Mar
21
1970
Activist Kweisi Mfume born
Birthday of Rep. Kweisi Mfume who was born Frizzell Gray in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1996 Mfume became president of the NAACP.
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Oct
24
1948
Yancey Williams, a Howard University student
Yancey Williams, a Howard University student, asked a federal court to order the secretary of war and other government officials to consider his application for enlistment in the Army Air Corps as flying cadet.
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Jan
15
1941
Oldest Intergration Law Suit Settled
The oldest intergration law suit in the US was settled in 1989 when the St. Helena Parish schools were officially integrated. The suit was originally filed by a John Hall and the NAACP in 1952.
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Jan
8
1989
Martin Luther King
Born: 1/15/1929 Atlanta, GeorgiaDied: 4/4/1968 Memphis, TennesseeKing was a pivotal figure in the non-violent civil rights movement. During the 1950s and 1960s, he sought to improve race relations and overturn discrimination in American society. He is remembered for his powerful speeches which
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Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the
Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at
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Feb
12
1865
The New York newspaper Amsterdam News is founded.
The New York newspaper Amsterdam News is
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Dec
4
1909
Virginia Students Protest Segregated Schools
Students attending Moton High School, Prince Edward County, Virginia led a walk out to protest separate and unequal school
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Apr
23
1951
Senwosert I
Senwosert I was a 12th Dynasty King of Egypt (1897BC). Also
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Jan
0
0
Nomination of Judge John J. Parker
President Hoover nominated Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The NAACP launched a national campaign against the appointment. Parker was not confirmed by the Senate.
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Mar
31
1930
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