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Africans accompany Spanish explorer Hernando de Sotos on a expedition and settles among Native Americans in the territory of present-day Alabama.
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Jan
0
1539
Coretta Scott is born
Coretta Scott is born in Marion, Ala. She will marry Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1953 and be an integral part of his civil rights activities. After his assassination in 1968, she will continue her civil rights activities, founding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change in
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Apr
27
1927
storm of 28
More than 3000 African Americans died when Lake Okeechobee fooded Western Palm Beach County, Florida, with a 10-15 foot tidal wave. There are at least 3 mass graves containing the bodies of negroes interned without coffins or identification
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Sep
16
1928
Black Economist and Dean
Death of Brailsford Reese Brazeal (76), economist and former dean of Morehouse College, in Atlanta.
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Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Apr
22
1981
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in
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Jan
1
1863
Mae Jemison: Astronaut, Physician
Born: October 17, 1956
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Oct
17
1956
Mississippi Constitutional Convention began
Mississippi Constitutional Convention began systematic exclusion of Blacks from political life of South, August 12-November 1. The Mississippi Plan (Literacy and understanding tests) was later adopted with embellishments by other states: South Carolina (1895), Louisiana (1898), North Carolina
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Aug
12
1890
Black Troops
William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta. In series of battles around Chaffins Farm in suburb of Richmond, Black troops captured entrenchments at New Market Heights, made gallant but unsuccessful assault on Fort Gilmer and helped repulse Confederate counterattack on Fort Harrison. Thirty-ninth
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Sep
2
1864
283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores
On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The
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Jul
18
1827
Aborigines to be counted in census
Ninety per cent of white Australians voted in todays referendum for a proposal to count Aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them. Until now their affairs have been administered solely by the states. The other proposal, to break the nexus between the
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May
27
1967
Edward W. Brooke
Edward W. Brooke (Republican, Massachusetts) elected to U.S. Senate and became the first Black senator since the Reconstruction era and the first Black senator elected by popular vote. Racial violence was reported in forty-three cities in 1966, with eleven killed, more than four hundred injured and
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Nov
8
1966
Unita Blackwell
Unita Blackwell was the first black woman mayor elected in the state of Mississippi. She was elected mayor of Mayersville in 1976.
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Jan
0
1976
Demonstrations for housing, school and jobs
Civil rights group demonstrated at Harlem construction sites to Protest discrimination in building trades unions. Demonstrations and marches were held in metropolitan areas in June, July and August to dramatize discontent over housing, school and job discrimination.
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Jun
12
1963
Blues artist John Lee Hooker born
Blues singer, songwriter and guitarist John Lee Hooker was born in Clarkdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his 50 years as a musician at age 14, when he sang with religious groups and studied guitar with Will Moore. By age 73, Hooker had received the 1968-69 Best Blues Album award from Jazz and Pop
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Aug
22
1917
Race riots, Longview and Gregg counties
Race riots, Longview and Gregg counties, Texas. Martial law declared. There were twenty-six riots during the Red Summer of 1919.
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Jul
13
1919
1907 Civil rights activist and politician Grace Towns Hamilton was born inAt
1907 Civil rights activist and politician Grace Towns Hamilton was born in
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Feb
10
1907
Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator.
Blanche Kelso Bruce was a US Senator from Mississippi; the first black man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate. While serving in the senate, he was an advocate for civil rights for blacks, native Americans, Chinese immigrants and
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May
21
1881
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
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
Lucius D
Lucius D. Amerson, first Black sheriff in the South in the twentieth century, sworn in at Tuskegee (Macon County), Alabama. First Black government installed in the Bahamas.
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Jan
16
1967
Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church
Atlantas Ebenezer Baptist Church , the nearby crypt containing the remains of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his boyhood home are dedicated as part of a memorial to be known as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change.
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Jan
15
1970
The first Black person admitted to the University of Mississippi, James Meredith
The first Black person admitted to the University of Mississippi, James Meredith, graduates from University of Mississippi, 1963
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Aug
18
1963
More than 160 activists jailed after demonstration
More than 160 activists jailed after demonstration in Albany. By August almost one thousand demonstrators had been arrested in the Georgia city.
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Jul
21
1962
Civil Rights
April 3, 1944. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling declared that Blacks could not be barred form voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The high court repudiated the contention that political parties are private associations and held that discrimination aginst Blacks violated the 15th
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Apr
3
1944
Government: local (Mississippi).
In Fayette, Mississippi on May 13,1969; James Charles Evers (1922-) was elected the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town. In June 1971, he became the first black in this century to seek the governors office.
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May
13
1969
Brook Benton, holder of 16 gold records including "A Rainy Night in Georgia" , b
Brook Benton, holder of 16 gold records including A Rainy Night in Georgia , born
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Sep
19
1931
Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County
Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County. Florida.
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Oct
12
1945
Anti-Lynching Bill proposed
Black Congressman George H. White, North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. One report contends that in 1900, 105 Africans were lynched in the United States.
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Jan
20
1773
Lodge Bill
Lodge Bill, which called for federal supervision of U. elections, abandoned in the Senate after a Southern filibuster.
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Jan
22
1891
James Meredith starts school. He is the first Black student at University of Mi
James Meredith starts school. He is the first Black student at University of Mississippi... after 3000 federal troops quelled riots over his admission, 1962
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Oct
1
1962
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