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Blacks Protest Denial of Right to Vote
Blacks held a mass meeting in Philadelphia to protest the action of the Pennsylvania Reform Convention of 1837 which denied them the right to vote.
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Mar
14
1838
Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founds Chicago
Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
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Jun
6
1790
Newspaper Established
San Francisco Sun-Reporter established.
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Dec
15
1943
Jonathan A. Rodgers becomes president of CBS's television stations division, the
Jonathan A. Rodgers becomes president of CBSs television stations division, the highest ranking African American in network television. Rodgers had been general manager of WBBM-TV, CBSs Chicago Station
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Sep
3
1990
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1733 - Spanish decree promises escaped English slaves freedom in Florida.
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Jan
0
1733
Death of Rep. George Collins
Death of Rep. George Collins (47), in airplane crash, near Midway Airport, Chicago. Atty. Jewel Lafontant named deputy solicitor general.
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Dec
8
1972
Black Panther Party Founder Born
Black Panther Party Founder Huey P. Newton born. An illiterate high-school graduate, Newton taught himself how to read before attending Merritt College in Oakland and the San Francisco School of Law, where he met Seale. In Oakland in 1966 they formed the Black Panther group in response to
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Feb
17
1942
Florence Price, composer born
Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florences mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.She had her first recital by the age of four and had composed and published her first musical
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Apr
9
1888
Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, is born
Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, Born May 29, 1914 in Mexia, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science from Wiley College in 1934 and a Master of Science from Atlanta University in 1936. Henry McBay earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1945. McBay served as an Instructor
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May
29
1914
Race riot, Dixmoor, a Chicago suburb
Race riot, Dixmoor, a Chicago suburb. (8/15-16).
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Aug
15
1964
Quakers organize the Society for the Free Instruction ofOrderly Blacks and Peo
Quakers organize the Society for the Free Instruction of Orderly Blacks and People of Color, Philadelphia PA.
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Jan
0
1789
Quakers led by Anthony Benezer operns a school for blacks in Philadelphia, PA.
Quakers led by Anthony Benezer operns a school for blacks in Philadelphia, PA.
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Jan
0
1770
Actor Sherman Hemsley born
Actor Sherman Hemsley (All in The Family, Jeffersons, Amen) is born in Philadelphia.
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Mar
1
1938
Slavery
Great Britain enters the Atlantic slave trade after Sir John Hawkins carries enslaved Africans from Portugese Africa to Latin America and sells them to Spanish planters.
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Jan
0
1562
Birth of Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable was a black pioneer, trader and founder of the settlement that later became the city of Chicago.
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Nov
4
1750
Bobby Seale, Black Panther Co-founder, born
Birthday of Bobby Seale in Dallas, TX, co-founder and former chairman of the Black Panther Party.
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Oct
22
1936
Philips, 1st Black nominated president
Rev. Channing E. Philips of Washington, D.C., became first Black nominated for president by a major national party. Philips was nominated as favorite son candidate by District of Columbia delegation at Democratic convention in Chicago and received 671/2 votes.
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Aug
28
1968
Sam Cook, Father of Soul Music, born.
Singer Sam Cook, the son of a minister and believed by many to be the first father of soul music, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cook began his singing career with a gospel group known as the Singing Children. His fame came in 1965 with You and Me, Only 16, and his very famous Stand By Me and
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Jan
22
1931
1000 people from twenty five states gather in Philadelphia and form the National
1000 people from twenty five states gather in Philadelphia and form the National Black Independent Party, 1980
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Nov
23
1980
President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower named J. Earnest Wilkins of Chicago assistant secretary of labor.
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Mar
4
1954
First Black Head of Veterans Organization
W. Robert Ming, Chicago lawyer, elected chairman of American Veterans Committee. He was the first Black to head a major national veterans organization.
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Apr
28
1957
Chubby Checker born
Birthday of Singer Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans, in Philadelphia. Checker was best known for The Twist a hit song that soon became a style of dance.
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Oct
3
1941
Aborigines to be counted in census
Ninety per cent of white Australians voted in todays referendum for a proposal to count Aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them. Until now their affairs have been administered solely by the states. The other proposal, to break the nexus between the
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May
27
1967
Eleven People Arrested After Sit-In
Seven whites and four Blacks arrested after all-night sit-in at Englewood, N.J., city hall. Four Black mothers arrested after sit-in at Chicago elementary school. Mothers later received suspended $50 fines. Protests, picketing and demonstrations continued for several weeks against de facto
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Feb
2
1962
Patricia Louise Holte is born
Patricia Louise Holte is born in Philadelphia, Pa. She will be better known as Patti LaBelle, organizer and lead singer of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells in 1960. In the 1970s she will reconfigure the group and later reteam with Nona Hendryx and Sara Dash as LaBelle. In 1976, LaBelle will pursue
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May
24
1944
rock n roll
Rock Musician Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle, Washington.
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Nov
27
1942
Antislavery petition from free Blacks
Antislavery petition from free Blacks of Philadelphia presented to Congress.
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Jan
2
1800
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
Charles Edward Anderson--Meteorologist
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Aug
13
1919
Killings in Civil Rights demonstrations
Jonathan M. Daniels, white Episcopal seminary student from Massachusetts, killed and Richard F. Morrisroe, white Roman Catholic priest from Chicago, seriously wounded by shotgun blasts fired by white special deputy sheriff in Hayneville, Alabama. They were participating in civil rights
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Aug
12
1965
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