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Nationwide - Onovu Otitigbe-Dangerfield, a senior at Albany High School in upstate New York, has made history as the school's first Black valedictorian since 1868.'I think that just being able […]

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Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr., 1932–, African-American leader, clergyman, and public official, b. New Orleans. He was a leading civil-rights activist in the 1960s and, as a Democrat from Georgia, served (1973–77) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Under President Carter , Young was permanent

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Smith, E. June (1900-1982)

E. June Smith, a prominent leader in Seattle’s civil rights movement, was born in Cairo, Illinois in 1900 and worked as a secretary in St. Louis. Smith came to Seattle with her husband Roscoe O. Smith, a railroad porter, in 1941. Soon after her arrival, she worked as an insurance agent and, in

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Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presbyterian minister, named minister to Liberia. He died in Monrovia shortly after his arrival.

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Marcus Garvey , in full Marcus Moziah Garvey (born August 17, 1887, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica—died June 10, 1940, London, England), charismatic black leader who organized the first important American black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York

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As leader of the multination peacekeeping force ECOMOG, Nigeria established itself as West Africas superpower, intervening militarily in the civil wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone. But Nigerias costly war efforts were unpopular with its own people, who felt Nigerias limited economic resources were

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During the 1950s and 1960s, a number of important civil rights activities occurred that helped position the Civil Rights movement for greater recognition. They also led either directly or indirectly the passage of key legislation. Following is an overview of the major legislation, Supreme Court

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1963

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Denmark Vesey was a free slave born in St. Thomas, which at that time was a colony of Denmark. His birth name was Telemaque and he was born in 1767. He was purchased by a slave merchant named Joseph Vesey when he was 14 years old. Vesey sold his slave to a farmer in St. Domingue, but he was later

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Oakwood University [Huntsville] (1896- )

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