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Admittance of student to U of California Medical
U.S. Supreme Court ordered the University of California Medical School at Davis to admit Allan P. Bakke in so-called reverse discrimination suit.
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Jun
28
1978
Cyber-Youth Network Launch
On Wednesday, February 3rd, for the first time in history, Americas urban students will have a Web site specifically designed to address their educational needs and interests. The site -- called the Cyber-Youth Network -- provides a model for online education by offering students and teachers
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Feb
3
1999
Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama
In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, describes her ongoing research on the Birmingham (Alabama) World and its longtime editor, Emory O. Jackson. Mangun is writing a cultural biography of Jackson and the
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Reginald F. Lewis
Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first Black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holding Inc. With TLCs leverage
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Dec
7
1942
Church Of God In Christ, Memphis (1907- )
The Church of God In Christ (COGIC) with over six million members worldwide is one the largest Pentecostal churches in the world.  It was founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in
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Zhou Enlai's African "Safari" (1963-1964)
Zhou Enlai’s first tour of Africa, popularly known as Zhou’s “Safari,” was a series of state visits to ten independent African countries, undertaken between December 1963 and February 1964 by the Chinese Premier. These visits, which occurred during a period when many countries were
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Abolitionist and writer of "Appeal" David Walker was born, 1785
Abolitionist and writer of Appeal David Walker was born free in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Sep
28
1785
Jackie Robinson
Born: 1/31/1919 Cairo, GeorgiaDied: 10/24/1972 Stamford, ConnecticutJackie Robinson was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Apr
15
1947
Patrick Francis Healy, first Black awarded Ph.D
Patrick Francis Healy, first Black awarded Ph.D. degree, passed final examination at Louvain in Belgium.
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Jul
26
1865
(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1878), was one of the earliest black abolitionist speakers. Born in Salem, Massachusetts to free black parents, John and Nancy Remond, Charles became an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1838 and traveled with William Lloyd Garrison to the World
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Jul
9
1841
Foster, Abigail Kelley
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Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise
Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and entrepreneur, born
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Jan
9
1935
Evelyn Boyd Granville is born
Evelyn Boyd Granville, Born May 1, 1924 in Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar High School, a segregated high school at the time. Her interest in mathematics was encouraged by two mathematics teachers. Granville worked with Einar Hille, a distinguished mathematician in the field of functional
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May
1
1924
Andrew Jackson issued Proclamation
Andrew Jackson issued Proclamation at Mobile, Ala., urging free Blacks to rally around the standard of the eagle in the War of 1812.
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Sep
21
1814
Johnson, Gregory Lee (1945- )
On August 5, 1999 President William Clinton appointed Gregory Lee Johnson U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland.  He served in that post from November 16, 1999 to October 18, 2001. Johnson began his career in the Foreign Service in 1968 and has served in Vietnam (1968-1971).  His next posts were in Japan
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Willie Lee McCovey born
Baseball great Willie Lee McCovey born in Mobile, Alabama. McCovey joined the San Francisco Geiants in 1953 and played with the team for 14 years before moving to the San Diego Padres in 1974. He was Rookie of the Year in 1959 and led the National League in home runs in 1963, 1968 and 1969. McCovey
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Jan
10
1938
Cornel West
Cornel West is an American philosopher, activist, academic and intellectual; he is also the first African-American to have graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in
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Jun
2
1963
Lionel Hampton
Best Known
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Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity
Singler, Joan, et al, Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity
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Daniel Hale Williams, 1st physician to perform open heart surgeryis born.
Daniel Hale Williams, 1st physician to perform open heart surgery is born.
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Jan
18
1858
Belizean Kriols
By the 1500s, black slaves had been distributed through much of the Caribbean. Slavery, however, began much later in Central America. By 1724 the British were transporting slaves from Jamaica to Belize to cut logwood, particularly Mahogany. These slaves became known as
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Charles Drew, born
Dr. Charles Drew was born in Washington DC. Drew attended medical schools in Montreal, Canada. After much research and study, Drew discovered a way to preserve blood in the form of plasma so it could be stored for long periods of time.
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Jul
3
1904
Phillips Chapel CME Church, Las Cruces, New Mexico (1911- )
In 1911 a group of African Americans and Hispanics joined to build a small chapel, one of the first for the town of Las Cruces, New Mexico Territory. Their church, Phillips Chapel Colored Methodist Episcopal (now Christian Methodist Episcopal) CME Church is located in the Mesquite Historic District
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May
10
2013
The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the
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Frederick McKinley Jones
Born: 5/17/1893 Cincinnati, OhioDied: 2/21/1961 Minneapolis, MinnesotaFrederick McKinley Jones was an African-American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement
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Satcher, David (1941- )
David Satcher, physician, educator, and administrator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941 to Wilmer and Anne Satcher.   In 1963 Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta.  He earned a M.D. and Ph.D. in cytogenetics from Case Western Reserve University in
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Mar
2
1941
Maxine Waters
Elected to the House of Representatives by Californias 29th District.
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Jan
0
1999
NAACP Elects Kweisi Mfume
Kweisi Mfume is unanimously elected President and CEO of the NAACP.
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Dec
9
1995
Death of Captain Paul Cuffe
Death of Captain Paul Cuffe (58), entrepreneur and activist, in Westport, Massachusetts.
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Sep
9
1817
Martin Delany
Born: Charles Town, West VirginiaDied: 1/24/1885 Wilberforce, OhioMartin Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. He was one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School.Awards
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