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The new Museum of African American History opens in Detroit.It is the largest
The new Museum of African American History opens in Detroit. It is the largest of its kind in the world.
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Apr
11
1997
Z. Alexander Looby
Z. Alexander Looby the first African American to serve on the Nashville City Council dies
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Mar
24
1972
African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites
African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites: By 1777, losses on the field of battle and rising White desertions had reduced the Continental Armys ranks of men. Northern colonies began to accept African Americans, free and slave, because these colonies could not fill their quotas with White man. In
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Oct
5
2002
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father was the first African American general in the U.S. Army
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May
22
1959
Founder of Pro-Line
Comer Cottrell, founder and president of Pro-Line Corporation (1970), the largest African American owned business in the Southwest and the first African American to be part owner of a major league baseball team (1989), the Texas Rangers, born
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Dec
7
1931
Charlotte Ray graduates from Howard Law School.
Charlotte Ray graduates from Howard Law School. She is the first African American lawyer in the U.S.
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Feb
27
1872
Rebellion Collapsed/People Killed in the Struggles
White Democrats seized statehouse in Louisiana coup detat. President Grant ordered the revolutionaries to disperse, and the rebellion collapsed. Twenty-seven persons (sixteen whites and eleven Blacks) were killed in battles between Democrats and Republicans.
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Sep
14
1874
First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born,
First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born, 1753
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Jul
18
1753
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
John B. McLendon
John B. McLendon becomes the first African American coach in the ABA when he signs a two year contract with the Denver Nuggets.
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Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
May
14
1969
Civil Rights Movement
On this day the African American community of Montgomery, Alabama voted unanimously to end its 385 day bus-boycott.
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Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Dec
20
1956
The first African American magazine, Mirror of Freedom, begins publication in Ne
The first African American magazine, Mirror of Freedom, begins publication in New York City.
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Aug
30
1838
John Lee, becomes first black commissioned officer
John Lee, first black commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy is assigned to
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Mar
13
1957
William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor
William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to hold a Cabinet level position
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Jan
14
1975
Network news anchor
Max Robinson is the first African American to anchor network news. The network is ABC.
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Apr
19
1978
First African American, William Tucker, born
First African American, William Tucker, born
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Jan
3
1621
Percy Julian, developer of drugs to combat glaucom
Percy Julian, developer of drugs to combat glaucoma and methods to mass produce cortisone and George Washington Carver are the first African American Inventors admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the halls 17-year history.
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Apr
8
1990
Arthur Ashe
22 year old Arthur Ashe becomes the first African American to make the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team.
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May
14
1963
John Mercer Langston, considered the first African
John Mercer Langston, considered the first African American to be elected to public office is elected clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio township
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Apr
2
1855
War of Independence
Militia Integrated in the War of Independence: The first integrated army in American history was the colonial militia that fought the early battles of the War of Independence. African American minutemen fought on the front lines in the first battles against British authority: African Americans
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Apr
19
1775
52 nurses lead by Martha M. Franklin
52 nurses lead by Martha M. Franklin form the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, to improve the status of African American nurses
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Aug
23
1908
Jimmy Winkfield wins his second Kentucky Derby
Jimmy Winkfield wins his second Kentucky Derby in a row. African American jockeys have won 15 of 28 Derby races.
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Sponsored by Eastern Bank
May
1
1902
Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago
Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet Margaret T. Burroughs in 1961, the DuSable is one of the oldest African American museums in the U.S.
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Sep
17
1991
Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor win American Book Awa
Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor win American Book Awards for fiction
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Sponsored by Intellitech
Apr
28
1983
Dorothy Dandridge, actress born
Dorothy Dandrige
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Nov
9
1922
MaliVai Washington
Former tennis pro MaliVai Washington was born on June 20, 1969 in Glen Cove, New
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Jun
20
1969
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexanderbecomes the first African American to earn a P
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander becomes the first African American to earn a Ph.D in economics is born in Philadelphia ,PA.
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Jan
2
1898
African American Captures British General
African American Captures British General Prescott: African Americans continued to serve in the colonial militias, and some, like Prince, an African American man in Lieutenant Colonel Bartons Rhode island army, showed great daring and bravery. Early in August 1777, Colonel Barton conceived a plan
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Aug
3
2002
The first African American to enter the US Naval Academy, John H Conyers, 1872
The first African American to enter the US Naval Academy, John H Conyers, 1872
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Oct
21
1872
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first African American to graduate from a nursing school, graduates from the nursing program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Aug
1
1879
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