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Bertram M. Lee and Peter C.B. Bynoe sign an agreement to purchase the National B
Bertram M. Lee and Peter C.B. Bynoe sign an agreement to purchase the National Basketball Associations Denver Nuggets for $54 million. They become the first African American owners of a professional basketball team.
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Oct
21
1989
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson appears on the cover of Life magazine; first time an African American is featured on the cover in the magazines 13 year history
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May
10
1950
New York and New Jersey legally recognize the institutionof slavery.
New York and New Jersey legally recognize the institution of slavery.
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Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Jan
0
1664
James Augustine Healy
James Augustine Healy, first Black American Roman Catholic bishop, ordained a priest in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
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Jun
10
1854
Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson,
Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belfonte and A. Phillip Randolph, participated in the Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington. Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, and the nine students who integrated Little Rockss Central High School were awarded
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Oct
25
1958
Ernie Davis became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Ernie Davis became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Nov
28
1961
Founder of Pro-Line
Comer Cottrell, founder and president of Pro-Line Corporation (1970), the largest African American owned business in the Southwest and the first African American to be part owner of a major league baseball team (1989), the Texas Rangers, born
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Dec
7
1931
Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I
Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and former
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Jan
4
1958
Black Orphanage Destroyed by Angry Whites
Working class Irish in New York City, angered by the Conscription Act that allowed exemptions from military service for $300, burned a provost marshals office and the Colored Orphan Asylum. The act triggered a three-day anti-black race riot.
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Jul
13
1863
Dan McClellan
Dan mcClellan was the first black baseball player to pitch a perfect game.
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Jan
0
2000
Anti-lynching Bill Proposed
African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Jan
20
1900
Segregation is morally wrong said Kennedy
President Kennedy told nation in radio-TV address that segregation was morally wrong and that it was time to act in the Congress, in your state and local legislature body, and...in all of our daily lives.
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Jun
11
1963
Dancer Bojangles dies
Tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson dies in New York city.
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Nov
28
1949
Officers killed three students during
Officers killed three students during demonstration on the campus of South Carolina State in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Students were protesting segregation at an Orangeburg bowling alley.
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Feb
8
1968
Death of George Washington Williams
Death of George Washington Williams (41), Blackpool, England. Williams served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1880 to 1881, during the 64th session of the General Assembly. He was the first African-American to serve in the Ohio Legislature.
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Aug
4
1891
The movie, Green Pastures, premieres in New York's
The movie, Green Pastures, premieres in New Yorks Radio City Music Hall.
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Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Jul
16
1936
Roy Campanella
Roy Camanella was major league baseballs first black catcher.
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Sponsored by New York University
Jan
0
2000
Black Youths Urged to Resit Induction
A. Phillip Randolph told Senate Armed Services Committee that unless segregation and discrimination were banned in draft programs he would urge Black youths to resist induction by civil disobedience.
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Mar
31
1948
Harry Belafonte born
Singer/Actor Harry Belafonte is born in New York.
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Mar
1
1927
Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted temporary
Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted temporary injunction restraining city officials from interfering with integration of Tallahassee, Fla., city buses and said every segregation act of every state or city is as dead as a doornail.
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Sponsored by Eastern Bank
Dec
27
1956
US Champion
Debi Thomas wins the gold medal at the United States Figure Skating Championships in Hicksville, Long Island, New York
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Sponsored by Intellitech
Jan
0
1986
Willie Mays, born
Baseball great Willie Howard Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama. Mays played with both the New York and San Francisco Giants. He was National League batting champion four times and twice the leagues Most Valuable Player.
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
May
6
1931
Baseball team
The first black professional baseball team, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1895 by a group of New York waiters.
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Jan
0
1895
Kwame Nkrumah ousted in military coup
Elected leader and first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, ousted in military coup while he is away on a peace mission to Vietnam.
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Sponsored by Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Boston Professional Chapter
Feb
24
1966
Basketball star Moses "The Mailman" Malone born
National Basketball Association star, Moses The Mailman Malone is born in Petersburg, Virginia.
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Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Mar
23
1954
Opera singer Marian Anderson born
Opera singer Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anderson was entered in the New York Philharmonic Competition at age 17 by her music teacher, and placed first over 299 other singers. Awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1930, Anderson went to Europe for a year of study. She
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Sponsored by National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAP) Boston Chapter
Feb
27
1902
Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation
Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in buses and waiting rooms involved in interstate travel.
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Sponsored by National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAP) Boston Chapter
Nov
25
1955
Charles Cooper joins the NBA and becomes one of the first Blacks to play in an N
Charles Cooper joins the NBA and becomes one of the first Blacks to play in an NBA game, 1950
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Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Oct
22
1950
The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urgesits members to educat
The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urges its members to educate their slaves.
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Jan
0
1787
Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and
Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned by segregationists outside Anniston, Alabama. Group was attacked in Anniston and Birmingham.
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May
14
1961
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