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(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”
Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s.  Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of  segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial
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How Colin Kaepernick's Critics Missed the Mark
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Alaska Airlines and Seattle Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson Launch '12th Fan Rescue' Contest
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Jackson, Joseph Sylvester
Joseph Sylvester Jackson became the first executive secretary of the newly founded Seattle Urban League when it received its charter from the national headquarters in New York in 1930.  Little is known about Jackson before 1928.  That year he graduated from Livingston College in Salisbury, North
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10
1938
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, ET
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Barr, Roberta Byrd (1919-1993)
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actress, librarian, and television personality. She was a talented, multifaceted personality with a calm presence, thoughtful demeanor, and a darkly melodious voice which served her well in the many roles she played in the
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Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity founded
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1911
Barney L. Ford, Gold Miner, born
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LeBron Teams Up With Travis Scott For Official #GraduateTogether2020 T-Shirt — Cop Yours Now
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(1874) John Mercer Langston, “Equality Before the Law”
John Mercer Langston, a prominent abolitionist and civil rights activist, was one of the earliest African American officeholders in the United States when in 1855 he was elected town clerk of Brownhelm, Township, Ohio.  During the Civil War he recruited soldiers for the Massachusetts 54th Infantry
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Sep
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1841
The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Trailer" | PBS
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Rwanda: Banks Comfort Distressed Clients With Special Products
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Senegal
The capital of Senegal, Dakar, is the westernmost point in Africa. The country, slightly smaller than South Dakota, surrounds Gambia on three sides and is bordered on the north by Mauritania, on the east by Mali, and on the south by Guinea and
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Edwin C. Berry
Edwin C. Berry was born on this day in Oberlin, Ohio. He errected a 22-room hotel, Hotel Berry, in Athens, Ohio; at the time of his retirement in 1921, he had a reputation as the most successful black small-city hotel operator in the U.S.(1892).
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Dec
10
1854
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Africa: Lessons in Explaining Viruses to the Public - Rely On the Science
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Constantine, Learie (1901-1971)
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, was an international cricketer, journalist, politician, and lawyer. Constantine was the first person of African/Caribbean ancestry to be invested as a life peer in the United Kingdom. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1901 he was the son of a plantation
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1971
How to put on and take off a face mask
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Obama, Michelle Robinson (1964- )
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Nicodemus, Kansas (1877- )
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