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Emmett W. Chappelle: Biochemist
Born: October 25, 1925
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Oct
25
1925
Col.B.O. Davis Jr.
Col. B.O. Davis Jr. Named commander of Godman Field (Ky.) and became the first Black to head an Army Air Force base in the United States.
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Jun
21
1945
Denzel Washington Born
Actor Denzel Washington was born on this day in Mount Vernon, NY. Washington will star in such films as Malcolm X, Glory, Much Ado about Nothing, and A Soldiers Story. He will have a start in television in his role on popular show St. Elsewhere. He will win an Academy Award for best supporting
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Dec
28
1954
Japanese Prime Minister Insults Blacks
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said the United States intelligence levels are lower than those in Japan because of African Americans, Hispanics and Puerto Ricans. Nakasone later apologized saying his remarks were misinterpreted.
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Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
Sep
24
1986
Prince Hall Masonry founded
Prince Hall founded Africa Lodge No. 1. It was the first Black Lodge of Free Masons in the United States.
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Jul
3
1775
Activist Faye Wattleton
Faye Wattleton, a rgeistered nurse and New York activist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Wattleton served as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992.
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Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Jul
8
1943
Grover Cleveland Wins Election
Grover Cleveland won election and became the first Democratic president of the United States since the Civil War.
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Sponsored by Eastern Bank
Nov
4
1884
More than 4,000 delegates from one hundred
More than 4,000 delegates from one hundred national organizations attended National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington.
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Jan
15
1950
Pulitzer Prize and Spingarn Medal given
Charles Gordone awarded Pulitzer Prize for his play, No Place To Go. Painter Jacob Lawrence awarded Spingarn Medal in tribute to the compelling power of his work which has opened to the world...a window on the Negros condition in the United States and in salute to his unswerving commitment to the
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Nov
26
1970
Black Paul Revere
1781 - Nicholas, a free black patriot, rides to Dover, Delaware to alert United States troops that The British are coming!
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Jan
0
1781
Longshoremen Strike
Black Longshoremen struck for higher wages in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Apr
21
1892
Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was born in this day in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1938 he became the first boxer to hold three titles after winning the boxing lighweight championship.
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Dec
12
1912
Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard born
Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1965, Howard signed a $70,000 contract with the NY Yankees and became the highest paid player in the history of baseball at the time.
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Feb
23
1929
Congress bans the slave trade
Congress banned the slave trade, prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States or the territories thereof after January 1, 1808.
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Jan
1
1808
The First U.S. Merchant Ship
Booker T. Washington, the first U.S. merchant ship commanded by a Black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington, Delaware.
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Sep
29
1940
COINTELPRO Memorandum
A memorandum sent to field offices of the FBI set goals for what was termed as a new counterintelligence program against African American Nationalist groups. The objective was to block attempts by targeted groups to coalesce, grow and exist. The agencey believed unity was the first step toward
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Mar
3
1968
U.S. Marines landed in Haiti
U.S. Marines landed in Haiti and the country became a de facto protectorate of the United States.
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Jul
28
1915
Musician Miles Davis receives award
In Paris, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was named a Knight in the (French) Legion of Honor, one of that nations highest cultural honors.
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Jul
16
1991
Poor People's Campaign
Martin Luther King, Jr. announced plans for Poor Peoples Campaign in Washington. He said he would lead a massive civil disobedience campaign in the capital to pressure the government to provide jobs and income for all Americans. He told a press conference that an army of poor white, poor Blacks and
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Mar
4
1968
Liberia
Minister Lott Cary left the United States leading a group of freed slaves, most of whom were members of the American Colonization Society, to colonize a small portion of West Africa. This area became known as the Republic of Liberia in 1847.
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Jan
23
1821
March on Washington
More than 250,000 persons participated in March on Washington demonstration, the largest single demonstration in US History at the time, begins, 1963
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Aug
28
1963
Alexandre Dumas is born
Alexandre Dumas is born in Villiers-Cotterets to a Haitian mulatto, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Labouret Dumas, a French woman. He will become an acclaimed author of the French classics The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Corsican
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Jul
24
1802
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date, held in Washington.
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May
17
1957
Executive Order 9808
In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil
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Dec
5
1946
Institutions of Higher Learning Established
Booker T. Washington established Tuskegee Institute. Also founded in 1881 were Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and Bishop College.
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Jul
4
1881
Nine Caravans of poor people arrived in Washington
Nine Caravans of poor people arrived in Washington for first phase of Poor Peoples Campaign. Caravans started from different sections of country on May 2 and picked up demonstrators along the way. In Washington, demonstrators erected camp called Resurrection City on sixteen-acre site near Lincoln
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May
11
1967
Governor Barnett Found Guilty
Governor Barnett found guilty of civil contempt of the federal court. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered Barnett to purge himself of contempt or face arrest and a fine of $10,000 a day.
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Sep
28
1962
Frances Watkins Harper, writer born
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Sep
24
1825
United States population: 131,669,275
United States population: 131,669,275. Black population: 12,865,518 (9.8 per cent). Richard Wrights Native Son published.
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Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Feb
28
1940
Birth of William Seymour
William Seymour was born in Centerville, Louisiana. He is credited as being the inspirational force behind the birth of Pentecostalism in the United States.
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
May
2
1870
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