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Dec
18
1859
Blacks fought in the battles of 1812
Blacks fought in the land and water battles of the War of 1812. A large number of Black sailors fought with Matthew Perry and Isaac Chauncey in the battles on the upper lakes and were particularly effective at the Battle of Lake Erie. Two battalions of Black soldiers were with Andrew Jackson when
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Dec
18
1814
Ralph J. Bunche
Ralph J. Bunche confirmed by United Nations Security Council as acting UN mediator in Palestine.
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Sep
18
1948
Sampson was named the 1st Black representative
Chicago Atty. Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative (alternate delegate) in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations.
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Aug
24
1950
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16
2002
Davis, Miles
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Charles Mahoney, first Black Americandelegate to the UN, dies
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Jan
29
1966
John James Audubon born in Haiti to an African Car
John James Audubon born in Haiti to an African Caribbean mother and a French father.
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Apr
26
1785
Blacks service overseas
The first Blacks to arrive in Europe after the US entered the war, June 1917, and among the first to reach the war zone, were the laborers and stevedores that were needed to assist in the tremendous task of providing the allies with materials of war.
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Jun
0
1917
Nationalists disrupted UN session on Congo
Nationalists disrupted UN session on Congo with demonstration for slain Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba.
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Feb
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1970
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1959
France enters the Atlantic slave trade
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1624
African Protests Disrupt UN
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Feb
15
1961
Ailey, Alvin (1931-1989)
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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May
8
1879
Emmitt Smith
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May
15
1969
President Joseph Jenkins Roberts
President Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a native of Virginia, declared Liberia an independent republic.
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Jul
26
1847
(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founds Chicago
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Jun
6
1790
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Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
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Oct
3
1935
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Nov
27
1895
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Jan
10
1915
First Woman Millionaire
Madame C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove on this day, starts a Black hair-care business in Denver, CO; she alters curling irons that were popularized by the French to suit the texture of Black womens hair. She is arguably ther first woman millionaire in the U.S.
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Dec
23
1867
General Jackson Reneges On His Promise
General Jackson Reneges On His Promise: General Jackson, on order to prepare to meet Packenham, the British General, in the contest at New Orleans, came into the plantation fields to enlist five hundred Negro slaves. These are General Jackson comments: Had you not as soon go into battle an
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2002
Richard Wright
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