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Thomas Hit Man Hearns wins the WBA Welterweight title. This is one of five weight classes that he has won a boxing title making him the first Black to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

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Aug

2

1980

Logan, Rayford W. (1897-1982)

Leading 20th Century black historian Rayford Whittingham Logan was born on January 7, 1897 in Washington, D.C. to working class parents, Arthur C. and Martha Whittingham Logan. Rayford Logan spent his formative years in Washington, D.C. While in high school, he was taught by Carter

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Nov

4

1982

Definition of Boycott

The word boycott entered the English language because of a dispute between a man named Boycott and the Irish Land League in

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Tunisia

Tunisian Republic

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Franklin, John Hope (1915--2009)

John Hope Franklin, one of the nations leading historians, is the only African American who has served as president of both the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians

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Mar

25

2009

John W. "Bud" Fowler

John W. Bud Fowler becomes the first black salaried player in organized baseball and possibly the first black player in the major leagues when he joins a white team in New Castle, PA.

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Jan

0

1872

USBA Welterweight Title

Thomas Hit Man Hearns wins the vacant USBA Welterweight title. This is one of five weight classes that he has won a boxing title making him the first Black to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

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Mar

2

1980

First black CPA

Jesse B. Blayton became the first black certified public accountant in the United States.

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Jan

0

2000

First Black Appointed To a Presidential Cabinet

Robert Weaver became the first Black appointed to a presidential cabinet when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to head the newly created Departmentof Housing and Urban Development.

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Jan

13

1966

W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Dec

22

1943

Cory Booker

Cory Booker | FactMonster

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(1893) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law In All Its Phases,”

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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding

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Djibouti

National name: Jumhouriyya Djibouti

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Naval Medal of Honor

Robert Blake, powder boy aboard the USS Marbelhead, was the first Black awarded the Naval Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry, extraordinary heroism, and intrepidity at the risk of his own life. The heroic action ocurred during a victorious battle off the coast of South Carolina on this day.

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Dec

23

1863

One of the 1st Black Elected Officals

William A. Leidesdorf elected to San Francisco town council receiving the third highest vote. Leidesdorf, who was one of the first Black elected officials, became the town treasurer in 1848.

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Sep

20

1847

First Black Secretary of Agriculture

The position of Secretary of Agriculture was awarded to Alphonso Michael Mike Espy, making him the first Black to hold this position.

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Dec

24

1992

St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )

St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830s a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural

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Oct

9

1842

Spingarn Medal: Charles W. Chestnutt

Spingarn Medal presented to Charles W. Chestnutt, the first Black to receive widespread critical recognition as a novelist. He was cited for his pioneer work as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of Americans of Negro descent.

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Nov

6

1928

Macon B. Allen, first black lawyer

Macon B. Allen was elected judge of the Inferior Court of Charleston. Allen, the first Black lawyer, thus became the second Black to hold a major judicial position and the first Black with a major judicial position on the municipal level.

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Nov

26

1872

Patrick Francis Healy, Pres. of Georetown Univer.

Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., first Black man to recieve a PhD, inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in America, and became the first Black to head a predominantly white university.

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Jul

31

1874

W.E.B. Du Bois died

W.E.B. Du Bois (95), scholar, protest leader and a founder of the NAACP, died in

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Aug

27

1963

Miller, Heather

Heather earned a PhD in comparative women’s history, Latin American history, and the history of sexuality at the Ohio State University in 2002, where she completed her dissertation, “The Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United States, 1870–1990.” She has

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Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Professor Arthur Lewis of Princeton. He was the first Black cited in a category other than peace.

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Nov

15

1979

James B. Parsons

James B. Parsons named chief judge of the Federal District Court in Chicago and became the first Black to hold that position.

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Apr

18

1955

Organized Labor in the 21st Century: The Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226

In February 2008, the Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 emerged on the national political scene with their high profile endorsement of presidential candidate Barack Obama. The union itself has a much older history that goes back to the late 1940s and is tied to the aspirations of

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Liberia

Current government officials

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Barbados

Current government officials

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DNA HOAX. African Americans Ain't African

SAVE YOUR MONEY. DNA ANCESTRY HOAX EXPOSED

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