Kamala Harris Delivers First Speech As Madame Vice President

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Kamala Harris Delivers First Speech As Madame Vice President

The nation's first Black Vice President echoed earlier calls for unity and reverence by the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool.

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1621

Texas As a Slave State

President John Tyler signed the joint resolution of Congress to admit Texas as a slave state.

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1845

Black Woman named "American Mother of the Year."

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1946

Carol Mosely Braun

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1992

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Jan

11

1985

For a Lincoln birthday celebration, James Weldon Johnson writes the lyrics for

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1900

Angela Davis arrested in New York City and charged

Angela Davis arrested in New York City and charged with unlawful flight to avoid persecution for her alleged role in California courthouse shoot-out.

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1970

Churches Burned

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1962

Elected to the House of Representatives by Californias 29th District.

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1999

Campbell, Clive/DJ Kool Herc (1955- )

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Congress authorized President Lincoln to accept blacks in Union Army.

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1862

Georgia legislature reconvened and admitted Black

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Jan

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1870

(1905) Theodore Roosevelt, “Lincoln and the Race Problem”

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1905

Georgia constitutional convention

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1867

Saint James AME Church, Helena, Montana (1888- )

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13

1862

Julian Bond, communications director of the

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Jan

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1966

Remembering Sara Dunlap Jackson (1919-1991)

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Bullard, Eugene James ["Jacques"] (1895-1961)

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Oct

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1895

John H. Johnson, Editor and Publisher of JET

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1918

Andrew Brimmer appointed to Fed. Reserve Bd.

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Feb

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1966

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2001

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1855

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1934

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(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”

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Bond, Julian (Horace Julian Bond), 1940–2015, U.S. civil-rights leader, b. Nashville, Tenn. As a student at Morehouse College, he participated in sit-ins at segregated Atlanta restaurants. He was a founder (1960) of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, serving (1961–65) as its

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