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A Black scientist helped save thousands of lives
A Black scientist helped save thousands of lives during World War II. Dr. Charles Richard Drew set up and ran the pioneer blood plasma bank in Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. This bank served as one of the models for the system of banks operated later by the American Red Cross. On October
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Oct
1
1940
Paul Robeson and Japanese Americans, 1942-1949
One hero and friend of Japanese Americans, both individuals and the community generally, was Paul Robeson. Robeson was (after Joe Louis) the most popular and visible African American of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a celebrated stage actor and movie star, an internationally famous folk
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(1964) George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”
By 1964 George C. Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, had become the national symbol of opposition to the civil rights movement and to federal governmental intervention to protect the rights of African Americans.  In the address below he denounces President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing into law the
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Jul
4
1776
Wilson, August
Wilson, August, 1945–2005, American playwright and poet, b. Pittsburgh as Frederick August Kittel. Largely self-educated, Wilson first attracted wide critical attention with his Broadway debut, Ma Raineys Black Bottom (1984), a play set in 1927 that dramatizes the clash between the blues diva
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(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”
On March 2, 1807 Congress enacted a law that banned the external slave trade beginning January 1, 1808. With that act enslaved persons could no longer be brought to the United States. Although the law would be frequently violated until the eve of the Civil War, many black and white anti-slavery
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Bullitt, Katherine Muller, Seattle, Washington
Katherine Muller (Kay) Bullitt was born and raised in Massachusetts.  She earned her B.A. (with honors) in Government from Radcliff College and taught in Cambridge, Massachusetts before heading west in 1953.  Shepicked Seattle as the place she wanted to
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Booker T. Washington
Born: 4/5/1856 Hales FordDied: 11/14/1915 Tuskegee, AlabamaBooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.Business
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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary
Nnamdi Azikiwe, by now the best know nationalist leader in Nigeria, addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its 50th anniversary celebration at the Polo Grounds, New York City, July 19, 1959. His speech appears
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19
1959
Barbados
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W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois also known as William Edward Burghardt (b. Feburary 23, 1868) was a an African-American historian, civil rights activist and the first sociologist to ever have an article published on the rights of African-Americans. His great-grandfather was French-American and his family had
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Charles Mitchell, Slavery, and Washington Territory in 1860
Few people connect Washington Territory with slavery.  However one incident in 1860 was a reminder that the peculiar institution reached the pre-Civil War Pacific Northwest.  In the account below, historian Lorraine McConaghy describes the saga of Charles Mitchell whose attempted escape from
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Sep
24
1860
Hotel Robinson (1897-1921)
The Hotel Robinson, built in 1897, was one of the first businesses in San Diego County, California to be owned and operated by an African American, and the oldest continuously operated hotel in Southern California. The hotel is now a part of the National Register of Historic Places and is a Point
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Jun
10
1915
(1904) Mary Church Terrell, “The Progress of Colored Women”
Mary Church Terrell, the daughter of former slaves, became by the beginning of the 20th century one of the most articulate spokespersons for womens rights including full suffrage.  In 1896 she was elected president of the National Association of Colored Women and by 1910 she was a charter member of
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Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Dolorez Griffith Joyner was an American athlete, who is considered to be one of the fastest women of all time. She was also known for being a trend setter on the field, with her fashionable outfits and long nails. She was born in Los Angeles, California on December 21, 1959 and raised in
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Dec
21
1959
(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”
In 1848 Benjamin Roberts filed a lawsuit against the city of Boston on behalf of his five year old daughter, Sarah, who was denied admission to schools in her neighborhood and instead assigned to the lone all-black school in the city.  Two attorneys, Robert Morris, one of the first black lawyers in
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Feb
15
1793
Henderson, George Washington (c. 1850-1936)
Born a slave in Clark County, Virginia, George Washington Henderson graduated from the University of Vermont in 1877 and became the first African American to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the highest academic honor society. He later received a bachelor’s degree in divinity from Yale
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Feb
3
1936
(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”
In 1972 Barbara Charline Jordan became the first black member of Congress elected from Texas. Two years later this freshman Representative became a national figure because of her prominent role as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard
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Merriwether, Raymond (1924–2011)
Raymond (Ray) Merriwether, prominent Seattle, Washington African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper owner, was born in Taylor, Texas on June 19, 1924 to Colie and Annie Merriwether.  After graduating from high school Merriwether attended barber school and served a short time
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May
23
2011
Barbados
Barbados bärbā´dōz [key], island state (2005 est. pop. 279,300), 166 sq mi (430 sq km), in the West Indies. The capital and largest city is Bridgetown . Sections in this article:
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Fuller, Margaret
Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer, lecturer, and public intellectual, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities in the American literary circles of her day. A precocious child, she was forced by her father, a Massachusetts
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Askia Muhammad Toure
Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), established the Askia dynasty of
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President Nixon rejected the sixty demands of the
President Nixon rejected the sixty demands of the Congressional Black Caucus, saying his administration would continue to support jobs, income and tangible benefits, the pledges that this society has made to the disadvantaged in the past decade. The caucus expressed deep disappointment with the
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May
18
1971
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
April 20, 1993, Argued
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Nicodemus, Kansas (1877- )
Nicodemus, Kansas was founded in 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction Period. It soon became one of the most famous mostly black communities in the country formed by freedpeople migrating west.  Nicodemus is located on the plains in the northwest corner of the state along the Solomon River in
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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS
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Jul
28
1967
Chica da Silva (1731/5-1796)
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, better known as Chica da Silva (or spelled Xica da Silva), was a Brazilian woman born into slavery, who went on to gain her freedom and become a powerful and well-known member of Brazilian
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day.  King, in Memphis to support a strike by garbage workers, gives a poignant vision of the victorious future of the
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Apr
3
1968
U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962
Many Americans are familiar with the now iconic images of James Meredith, the black student who desegregated the University of Mississippi in October 1962, surrounded by white U.S. marshals assigned to protect him and ensure that a U.S. Supreme Court desegregation order be enforced.  Few of us are
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Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama
In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, describes her ongoing research on the Birmingham (Alabama) World and its longtime editor, Emory O. Jackson. Mangun is writing a cultural biography of Jackson and the
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Two Families, Two Destinies: A Personal Perspective on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
From April to July 1994 Rwanda suffered through a period of government-sanctioned mass murder which resulted in the deaths of nearlyone million Tutsi men, women and children. Most observers point to myriad factors which caused the slaughter including government corruption, longstanding ethnic
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