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U.S. Supreme Court Reversed Conviction
U.S. Supreme Court reversed conviction of sixteen sit-in students who had been arrested in Baton Rouge.
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Dec
11
1961
Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South Ameri
Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South American countries, Australia, and the U.S. meet in Atlanta for the first Congress of African People.
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Sep
3
1970
Troops Played a Role in battle
Unions troops, with First Kansas volunteers playing leading role, routed rebels at Honey Springs, Indian Territory. Black troops captured colors of a Texas regiment.
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Jul
17
1863
Dorothy Dandridge, actress born
Dorothy Dandrige
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Nov
9
1922
The first African American nursing school
The first African American nursing school opens at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.
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Aug
13
1881
The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.
In 1983, Doctors Elmer and Joanne Martin opened a wax museum, the first of its kind in the nation, as well as, Baltimore, Maryland of African Americans leaders that were made of
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Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Jan
0
1983
Beyonce Knowles
Born: 9/4/2016 Houston, TexasBeyonce Knowles is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child, and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destinys Child.Awards
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Barbara Jordan: Elected to Congress
When Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 she became the first African-American woman to represent a previously Confederate state in Congress.
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Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
Nov
7
1972
Actress Phylicia Rashad born
Actress Phylicia Rashad was born in Houston, Texas.
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Jun
17
1948
Racially Motivated Slayings
Buffalo, N.Y., grand jury indicted Pvt. Joseph G. Christopher of the U.S. Army on murder charges stemming from the racially motivated slayings of three Blacks in September, 1980.
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Apr
29
1981
Carl B. Stokes
Carl B. Stokes elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana. Stokes was sworn in on November 13, and became the first Black to serve as mayor of a major American city.
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Sponsored by Diversity In Action
Nov
7
1967
Maynard Jackson elected mayor of Atlanta
Maynard Jackson elected mayor of Atlanta.
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Oct
16
1973
Zina Garrison born
Zina Garrison is born in Houston, Texas. She will win 37 professional tennis title, an Olympic gold medal and in 1990 finish runner-up at Wimbledon.
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Nov
16
1963
Helene Gayle
Born: 8/16/1955 Buffalo, New YorkCEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global and social challenges. McKinsey Social Initiatives first program, Generation, addresses the problem of youth
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Negro History Week Begins
What is now known as Black History Month, was first celebrated on this date as Negro History Week by Carter G. Woodson. It became a month long celebration in 1976.
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Feb
1
1926
Thurgood Marshall
Born: 7/2/908 Baltimore, MarylandDied: /24/993 Bethesda, MarylandThurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 967 until October 99. Marshall was the Courts 96th justice and its first African-American justice.Business
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Harvey B. Gantt born
Harve B. Gantt, the first African American student to enroll at Clemson University in Charleston, South Carolina. Gantt became mayor pro tem of Charleston in 1983 and later served as mayor of Charlotte from 1983 to 1987.
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Jan
14
1943
Elijah Poole, aka The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, born
Elijah Poole, aka The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, born
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Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Oct
7
1897
Death of Horace Mann Bond
Death of Horace Mann Bond (70), former president of Lincoln University (Pa.), in Atlanta.
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
Dec
21
1972
Twenty Million Dollar Gift to Spelman College
Bill and Camille Cosby gave an unprecedented gift of $20 million to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Nov
4
1988
Henry McNeal Turner Born
Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age
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Feb
1
1834
Kurt Schmoke becomes the first African American mayor of Baltimore, Md
Kurt Schmoke becomes the first African American mayor of Baltimore, Md
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Sponsored by BARBinc
Dec
8
1987
National Afro-American Council
National Afro-American Council founded in Rochester, New York. Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church was elected president. The organization proposed a program of assertion and protest.
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Sep
15
1898
Texas As a Slave State
President John Tyler signed the joint resolution of Congress to admit Texas as a slave state.
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Mar
5
1845
Inventor of the gas mask, Garrett T Morgan, rescues six from gas-filled tunnel i
Inventor of the gas mask, Garrett T Morgan, rescues six from gas-filled tunnel in Cleveland, Ohio, 1916
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Jul
25
1916
Louis Stokes born
Louis Stokes, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and member of the US House of Representatives, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Stokes was the first African American elected to the House from Ohio.
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Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Feb
23
1925
Watch Night
Residents of Rochester, N.Y., joined Frederick Douglass in a vigil in anticipation of the Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect at midnight.
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Dec
31
1862
San Antonio, Texas, became first major Southern
San Antonio, Texas, became first major Southern city to integrate lunch counters.
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Mar
1
1960
First Black radiso station, WERD, begins operating in Atlanta, GA, 1949
First Black radio station, WERD, begins operating in Atlanta, GA, 1949
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Oct
3
1949
First Black Mayor of Houston, Texas
Lee Brown became Houstons first black mayor narrowly defeating businessman Rob Mosbacher.
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Dec
6
1997
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