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A Day of Elections
Edward W. Brooke elected attorney general of Massachusetts. Gerald Lamb elected treasurer of Connecticut. Otis M. Smith elected to a full term on the Michigan Supreme Court. Five Blacks, including one newcomer, were elected to the House of Representatives. The newcomer, Augustus F. Hawkins, was
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6
1962
Sean Bell shooting incident
Sean Bells murder took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States, on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot a total of 50 times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers. Sean Bell was killed on the morning before his wedding, and two of his
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Bullen, Roland Wentworth Boniface (1944- )
Roland Wentworth Bullen was born on Carriacou, one of the six islands that comprise the nation of Grenada. The product of a prominent family that owned several businesses, including the popular restaurant “Callaloo,” Bullen arrived in the United States in 1966. After obtaining his
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2003
Earl Warren
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The Moynihan Report (1965)
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4
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City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989)
? APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 87-998. Argued October 5, 1988 Decided January 23, 1989 Appellant city adopted a Minority Business Utilization Plan (Plan) requiring prime contractors awarded city construction contracts to subcontract at least 30%
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N. Cornell Boggs
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Tennessee Voices, Episode 32: Steven Lewis, curator, National Museum of African American Music
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Assistant Attorney General
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Bussa Rebellion (1816)
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Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) (1986- )
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Lynch, Loretta Elizabeth (1959- )
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Annan, Kofi A. (1938-- )
Kofi Atta Annan, born on 8 April 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana, served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) between 1997 and 2007.  As a young man, Annan finished his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961.  He then completed his
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Clarence Thomas
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(1867) Thaddeus Stevens, “Reconstruction”
In 1867 Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner led the campaign for full voting rights for African Americans across the nation.  In the speech below which Stevens gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 1867 supporting the Reconstruction
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3
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N.A.A.C.P. v. Alabama Ex Rel Patterson (1958)
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30
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Holder, Eric H. (1951- )
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Tina Knowles Lawson, Beyoncé launch Houston campaign to fight COVID-19
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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1968
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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Attorney General George Williams
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Edward Brooke
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