Distrust of the Minneapolis Police, and Also the Effort to Defund Them

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Distrust of the Minneapolis Police, and Also the Effort to Defund Them

… support from 70 percent of Black Americans, according to a Gallup poll … Chief Medaria Arradondo, the first African-American to hold the position, saying …

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Harriet Tubman born

*Possible* date of Harriet Tubmans birth. Born into slavery in Maryland, Tubman escaped to the North only to return in over 80 trips to help other blacks escape their bondage. As part of the Underground Railroad, Tubman helped more than 300 African Americans escape slavery.

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1999

People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) founded at

People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) founded at Chicago meeting by Rev Jesse Jackson.

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18

1971

The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem by Lois Alexander to highlight the

The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem by Lois Alexander to highlight the achievements and contributions of African Americans to fashion.

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21

1979

Quincy Jones was born

Quincy Jones, Music Impresario, Born March 14, 1933 in Chicago’s South

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14

1933

Daniel A. P. Murray born

Born in Baltimore on March 3. Murray, an African-American, was assistant librarian of Congress, and a collector of books and pamphlets by and about black Americans.

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Mar

3

1852

Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in the police forc

Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in the police forces 165 year history.

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Sep

6

1988

The first Kentucky Derby

The first Kentucky Derby is won by African American jockey Oliver Lewis riding the horse Aristides. 14 of the 15 jockeys in the race are African Americans.

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May

17

1875

Inquest over Negro Killing

An inquest was held by Justice of the Peace T.M. Richards on September 24, 1928 over the killing of :Coote Simpsons, Negro, Twenty-second street, who was killed by the rifle of a Florida National Guardsman on special detail duty at noon on September 23, 1928 for refusing to leave his bicycle and go

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1999

John Mercer Langston (1829-97).

In October, 1868, John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University, the first in a black school. He headed the department when classes formally began on January 6, 1869, and was its dean from 1870 to 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he was vice-president and acting

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Jan

6

1869

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

The Reverend Emmanuel Cleaver

The Reverend Emmanuel Cleaver becomes the first African American mayor of Kansas City, Mo.

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26

1991

Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born on this day in 1868 in Texarkana, Te

Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born on this day in 1868 in Texarkana, Texas. A skilled pianist and composer, Joplin started a 20-year ragtime craze with the release of his composition Maple Leaf Rag in 1897, during the Gay Nineties. Ragtime-scored piano music-at the time was considered

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Pioneer in surgery, Dr Daniel Hale Williams, found

Pioneer in surgery, Dr Daniel Hale Williams, founds Provident Hospital in Chicago, IL . At the same time, he founded Provident Hospital School of Nursing because Emma Reynolds, African America, had been denied admission to every school of nursing in Chicago

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23

1891

Civil Rights Movement

On this day the African American community of Montgomery, Alabama voted unanimously to end its 385 day bus-boycott.

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1956

Arthur Ashe is born

Arthur Ashe, Born July 10, 1943 in

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10

1943

Bernard Harris, astronaut

Bernard Harris, African-American astronaut, takes space walk.

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1995

Benjamin Banneker commissioned to lay out D.C.

Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles LEnfant, are commissioned to lay out the District of Columbia.

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12

1791

'This Far By Faith'

On this date in 1999, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released This Far By Faith: An African American Resource for Worship, which compiles hymns of liturgies of Lutheran African Americans.

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1999

Leontine T.C. Kelly born

Leontine T.C. Kelly, the first African-American woman to become a bishop within the Methodist denomination.

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1920

National Urban League presented one-hour program

National Urban League presented one-hour program over a national radio network and urged equal participation for Blacks in national defense program.

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Mar

30

1941

Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight

Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight boxing champion, in Chicago.

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27

1975

Death of Anthony Overton

Death of Anthony Overton (81), publisher, cosmetics manufacturer and banker, Chicago.

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1946

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

Andre Ware of the University of Houston becomes the first African American quart

Andre Ware of the University of Houston becomes the first African American quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy.

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1989

Storm of '28 Heros

In an effort to pay honor where it is due, West Palm Beach, Florida, City Manager A.E. Parker yesterday paid tribute to two laborers who served throughout the trying period of intern here as volunteer workers. W.A. Watts, he said, worked 18 hours a day making coffins, and M.W. Stark supervised the

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1999

Washington D.C.'s Anacostia Museum dedicated to informing the community of contr

Washington D.C.s Anacostia Museum dedicated to informing the community of contributions by African Americans to U.S. political, social, and cultural history, opens

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27

1967

Howard Beach Incident

White teens in Howard Beach chased Michael Griffith, an African-American youth, onto a freeway where he was hit by a motorist. Griffith died from his injuries setting off a wave of protests and racial tensions in New York.

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1986

African-American term is coined

Jesse Jackson urges the use of the term African-American

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1988

the Bronze Muse

On this day, the Bronze Muse died in

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1911

Birth of Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable

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