Gone But Not Forgotten: The First Day of Black History Month is Also National Freedom Day

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Gone But Not Forgotten: The First Day of Black History Month is Also National Freedom Day

Photo credits: The Chicago Defender February 1 is most notably recognized as the first day of Black History Month. However, the day's significance is defined by more than that. It starts in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. But Lincoln knew that a proclamation wouldn't be enough - leading to the creation […]

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Writer, Richard Wright

Richard Wrights Black Boy reached first place on the National Best Seller Book List.

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Apr

29

1945

Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932

In the following account writer Irene Brown recalls through her fathers photo the visit of Ada Wright, mother to Roy and Andy Wright, two of the nine Scottsboro Boys accused of rape in 1931. Her account appears

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Jonathan Jasper Wright

Jonathan Jasper Wright was the first Black state supreme court justice. He resigned on this day from the state supreme court in South Carolina after the overthrow of the Reconstruction government, and died in obscurity of tuberculosis.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

1

1877

Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell (1898-1989)

Born two decades before American women won the right to vote, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander overcame obstacles as a female and also as an African American in the elite profession of law. In 1927 she became the first black woman to gain admission to the Pennsylvania Bar, beginning a long career

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Source: Black Past

Jan

2

1898

The United States Colored Troops (1863-1865)

The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was the designation given to the approximately 175 regiments of non-white soldiers that served during the Civil War. The troops were primarily African American, but Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders were all included within the

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Source: Black Past

Jan

1

1863

Baldwin, James (1924-1987)

James Arthur Baldwin, fiction writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet, was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York during the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1942, he began his formal career as a writer. Baldwin was inspired by Richard

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Source: Black Past

Aug

2

1924

Fighting for Racial Justice in the Pacific Northwest: Lillian Walker and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights

In the following account John C. Hughes, chief oral historian for the Washington State Legacy Project, discusses the life and legacy of Lillian Walker, who has been a civil rights activist in Bremerton, Washington, since World War II. Established in 2008 by Washington Secretary of State Sam

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Source: Black Past

Gibbs, Jonathan (1827-1874)

Born a freeman in Pennsylvania in 1827, Jonathan Gibbs was the son of Maria Jackson and the Methodist minister, Jonathan

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Source: Black Past

Popcorn with Zenger: No One to Root For in ‘All Day and a Night’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

“All Day and a Night,” the latest film from Netflix, tells the story of a young black man dealing with the reality of his

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Pharrell Teams Up With The Governor of Virginia To Announce Plan To Make Juneteenth a State Holiday

On Tuesday (Jun 16), Pharrell joined Gov. Northam for his press conference in Richmond where he unveiled plans that Virginia will recognize Juneteenth as a paid state

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NFL Will Observe Juneteenth as Official League Holiday

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in an internal memo to staff, announced that the league will observe Juneteenth on Friday, June 19, as an official holiday and the league’s offices will be closed that

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Organization of Afro-American Unity

The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was modeled on the Organisation of African Unity, which had impressed Malcolm X during his visit to Africa in April and May 1964. The purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the

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Nike joins the companies making Juneteenth an annual paid holiday | The Atlanta Voice

Nike is adding June 19, a holiday called Juneteenth, to its list of official, paid company

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Ransome’s ‘Everyday People’ on display at Children’s Museum of Houston

HOUSTON – The Children’s Museum Houston has unveiled a brand-new art exhibit which celebrates people, places and defining moments in African American history, just in time for

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The Music Industry Mourns | The Crusader Newspaper Group

We did our first little party in the Clinton projects in the community

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Black America’s Conflicted History with the Insurrection Act

Cotton appeared on Fox News where he offered, “[I]f necessary, the president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement and ensure that this violence ends tonight . . .not one more

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John Cheatham: One of Minneapolis’ First African-American Firefighters

John Cheatham: One of Minneapolis’ First African-American Firefighters

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 [4] – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Feb

20

1895

Madame C.J. Walker

Sarah Breedlove also known as Madam C.J. Walker was born in Delta, Louisana on the 23rd December 1867. Under the company she founded, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, she launched a line of hair products and beauty creams that propelled her to success. She was well known as

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Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas, and more generally the emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the former Confederacy of

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Richard Wright wins the Spingarn Medal for "Native Son"

Richard Wright wins the Spingarn Medal for Native Son

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Jan

23

1941

Richard Wright - Birthday

He was born on September 4, 1908 in Mississippi and raised by his mother, as his father had left the family when Wright was 6 years old.

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Source: Black History Resources

Sep

4

1908

After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada

The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned? In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African

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President Donald Trump Reschedules Tulsa Campaign Rally ‘Out of Respect’ for Juneteenth

President Donald Trump has decided to reschedule his first rally since the coronavirus emerged from the original date of June 19th to the next day, June 20th, “out of respect” for the Juneteenth holiday according to

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Abbott, Anderson Ruffin (1837-1913)

Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Canada’s first black doctor, was born April 7, 1837 in Toronto, Ontario. He was the son of free black property owners William Ruffin Abbott and his wife Ellen (Toyer) Abbott who left Alabama after their store had been destroyed. They settled briefly in New York until

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Source: Black Past

Dec

29

1913

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Following the Union Army victory at Antietam, Maryland on September 17, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation. This document gave the states of the Confederacy until January 1, 1863 to lay down their arms and peaceably reenter the Union; if these states

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Source: Black Past

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore (1875-1935)

Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was born on July 19, 1875 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Patricia (Wright) Moore and Monroe Moore. She attended public school in New Orleans and enrolled in the teacher training program at Straight University in that city in 1890. Two years

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Mar

6

1898

First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, Nashville, Tennessee (1835- )

First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill lays claim to the designation as the oldest continuously operating African American church in Tennessee because it traces its origin back to First Baptist Colored Mission which first met to hold prayer services in 1835. Up to that point Nashville’s black

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What is Juneteenth?

The homegrown holiday’s Southern beginnings have evolved into a day of recognition for freedom and legacy in African American

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In United States history, a free negro or free black was the legal status, in the geographic area of the United States, of blacks who were not

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