Hulu Set to Release Docuseries on 'The 1619 Project'

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Hulu Set to Release Docuseries on 'The 1619 Project'

Streaming platform Hulu is helping more households become educated on "The 1619 Project" through an upcoming docuseries on the controversial essay.

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1778 - The Baptist church decides that marriages between slaves should be respected.

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South Carolina constitutional convention

South Carolina constitutional convention, the first official assembly in the West with a Black majority, met in the Charleston Clubhouse with seventy-six Black delegates and forty-eight white delegates. Two-thirds of the Black delegates were former slaves. A New York Herald reporter wrote: Here in

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1868

Harriet Tubman born

*Possible* date of Harriet Tubmans birth. Born into slavery in Maryland, Tubman escaped to the North only to return in over 80 trips to help other blacks escape their bondage. As part of the Underground Railroad, Tubman helped more than 300 African Americans escape slavery.

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Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director,

Whitney M. Young, Jr. was Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 until his tragic, untimely death in 1971. He worked tireless to bring the races together, and joined the tenets of social work, of which he was an outstanding practitioner, to the social activism that brought the

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1971

William A. Harper

William A. Harper, student of Henry O. Tanner at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most gifted African American artist of the early 20th century, born

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1873

Passing of Civil Rights Bill

U.S. Congress pass Civil Rights Bill banning racial discrimination in sale or rental of approximately 80 per cent of the nations housing.

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1968

South Carolina was declared "independent

South Carolina was declared an independent commonwealth. BLACKS IN CONFEDERACY: Confederacy was the first to recognize that Blacks were major factors in the war. South impressed slaves to work in mines, repair railroads and build fortifications, thereby releasing a disproportionately large

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1859

Elijah Muhammad, born

Elijah Muhummad was born Elijah Poole in

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1897

Death of Emperor Haile Selassie

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia died in 1975 at the age of 83. During his reign, Selassies main ambitions included the modernization of Ethiopia, international recognition for his nation, the abolishment of slavery, expanded eduacation and the elimination of foreign intervention. In 1936, a year

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1975

William L. Dawson

William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago. Black and white advocates of direct, nonviolent action organizing the Sleeping Car Porters under the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and securing recognition for them; and because of his fearless, determined mobilization of mass opinion that

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1942

Frederick Douglass

Born: 2/1/1818 Maryland, United StatesDied: 2/20/1895 Washington, D.C., United StatesA former slave, Douglass became a leading figurehead in the anti-slavery movement. One of the most prominent African American leaders of the Nineteenth Century. His autobiography of life as a slave, and his

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Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker writes letter to then secretary of state Thomas Jefferson. The letter showed the hypocrisy of slavery. Banneker challenged the idea of freedom for whites as the ascribed it to be the same freedom that should be granted to Africans.

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1791

First serious slave conspiracy in colonial America

First serious slave conspiracy in colonial America. Plot of white servants and slaves in Gloucester County, Va., was betrayed by an indentured servant.

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1663

Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of

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Volunteer African American army units, including the 3rd Alabama, 3rd North Caro

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1898

"Nubian Monarchy Called Oldest," New York Times

New York Times comments on findings of archaeologist Bruce Williams finds at Qutsul. Evidence leads many to believe that Ta-Seti (most ancient Nubia) developed the worlds first divine kingship, monarchy, which then travelled up the Nile to Egypt.

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Continental Congress

The Continental Congress will no longer allow the importation of slaves.

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1774

President Lincoln issued "eye-for-eye" order

President Lincoln issued eye-for-eye order, warning Confederacy that the Union would shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot, and would condemn a rebel prisoner to a life of hard labor for every Black prisoner sold into slavery. Order had restraining influence on Confederate

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1863

Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on

Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on ratification, abolished slavery in America. The vote in the House was 121 to 24.

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1865

North American Slave Narratives

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Slave Revolt in Long Island

Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island (N.Y.). Seven whites killed. Two Black male slaves and an Indian slave were hanged, and a Black woman was burned alive.

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1708

Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise and opened Northern territory to slavery.

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1854

President Lincoln's Promise

President Lincoln, in preliminary Emancipation Proclamation warned South that he would free slaves in all states in rebellion on January 1, 1863.

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1863

Congress Fight For Blacks Freedom

Congress authorized president to accept Blacks for military service. Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, which freed the slaves of all rebels.

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1862

The First Black Psychic!

Shirley Ajayi was the first African American given a part on a television show as a psychic! The show lasted for about one year[actually six months] in Chicago, Illinois since the show was seasonal! Shirley started her career the minute her predictions came true! She was renamed Aura and hired to

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1986

White supremacist John King sentenced to death

White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black

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abolition of slavery

On April 19, 1866, the African American citizensof Washington D.C. celebrated the abolition of slavery. 4,000 to 5,000 people assembled to the White House addressed by Andrew Johnson. Led by twoblack regiments the spectators, and the procession proceeded up the Pennsylvania Avenue to FranklinSquare

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1866

Death of Prince Hall

Death of Prince Hall, activist and Masonic leader, in

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4

1807

Confederate Congress Meeting

Confederate Congress, meeting in Montgomery, Ala., adopted constitution which declared that the passage of any law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves was prohibited.

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