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Proclamation on Violence
President Grant issued proclamation on violence in Mississippi.
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Dec
21
1874
Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003)
Idi Amin was the Ugandan military dictator and President from 1971 to 1979.  During his reign Amin’s military forces are estimated to have killed 500,000 people and exiled roughly 70,000 non-Ugandan nationals (mostly Indians) from
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FIRST REPUBLIC SET UP BY FREED SLAVES
After departing New York Port in 1820 the first group of freed blacks landed first in Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone and later moved on to Bushrod Island in what is today in Monrovia and established a state. By the 1847 the country declared its independence.
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Jul
27
1847
1st Black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall, U.S. solicitor general, named to the Supreme Court by President Johnson. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 30 and became the first Black Supreme Court justice.
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Jun
13
1967
Condoleezza Rice
Born: /4/954 Birmingham, AlabamaCondoleezza Condi Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. BushBusiness / Schooling:
  • University of
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Republic Day
Republic Day in Sierra Leone.
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Apr
19
1989
Florence Griffith Joyner, track legend born
Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner
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Dec
21
1959
President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act
President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act which outlawed discrimination in the sale, rental or leasing of housing. This bill also made it a crime to interfere with civil rights workers and to cross state lines to incite a riot.
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Apr
11
1968
Young, Andrew (1932 - )
Andrew Young, Jr., came into prominence as a civil rights activist and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the modern civil rights movement in the United States.  Young worked with various organizations early in the movement, but his civil rights work was largely done with the
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Mar
12
1932
United States population: 9,638,453
United States population: 9,638,453. Black population: 1,771,656 (18.4 per cent). Mayflower of Liberia sailed from New York City with eighty-six Blacks. Ship arrived in Sierra Leone, March 9.
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Feb
6
1820
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign for President of the U.S.
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Jan
25
1972
Delegation urges suffrage for blacks
A delegation of blacks, led by Frederick Douglass, visited President Johnson and urged that suffrage be given to all qualified blacks.
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Jan
0
2000
President Lincoln received first group of Blacks
President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks.
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Aug
14
1862
Rosalind Brewer
Born: 962 President and CEO, Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.ABrewer became CEO of discount membership club and retailer Sam’s club in 202, becoming the first woman and first African-American to head a Wal-Mart subsidiary. The $56 billion (revenues) division of Wal-Mart has operations in the
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1st Black chariman of P.C.G.E.P.
Archibald J. Carey, Chicago minister and attorney, appointed first Black chairman of Presidents Committee on Government Employment Policy.
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Aug
3
1957
Cote divoire
After several postponements by President Gbagbo, Côte dIvoire held its first presidential election in ten years in Oct. 2010. The first round of voting between incumbent Gbagbo and his historic rival Alassane Ouattara, a former IMF official who was excluded from the presidential 2000 race because
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Vernon E
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President of the National Urban League, critically injured in attempted assassination in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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May
29
1980
The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the
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President sent federal troops to South Carolina
President sent federal troops to South Carolina.
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Oct
26
1876
Stephen Bantu Biko
One of the greatest sons of Africa was brutaly mudered by then government of apatheird in South Africa.Biko was a thinker, intellect and a father.His philosophy was that blacks must be proud to be black and blacks must redifine themselves.We as South Africans this month we are mournibg his demise
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Sep
12
2002
First Black Secretary of State: Colin L. Powell
Colin Luther Powell is sworn in by President George W. Bush as Secretary of State. He is the first black secretary of state in U.S. history.
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Jan
20
2001
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Born: 0/29/938 Monrovia, LiberiaAfrica’s first female head of state won the 20 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting Liberian reconciliation and in atoning for Liberia’s history of civil war. She was re-elected for a second term the same year, reneging on an earlier promise to run for only
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Marcus Garvey
Born: 8/17/1887 Saint Anns Bay, JamaicaDied: 6/10/1940 London, United KingdomMarcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro
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Free Africa Society organized
January 28, 1787 - Free Africa Society organized in Philadelphia.
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Jan
28
1787
Slavery
King Charles II of england charters the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa to supply 3,000 enslaved Africans annually to the West Indies.
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Jan
0
1662
Survivors returned to Africa
Thirty-five Amistad survivors returned to Africa.
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Nov
25
1841
The Freeman's Bureau.
The Freemans Bureau was established by Congress on March 3, 1865. The bureau was designed to protect the interests of former slaves. This included helping them to find new employment and to improve educational and health facilities. In the year that followed the bureau spent $17,000,000
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Mar
3
1865
the Mayflower of Liberia
The first organized emigration back to Africa begins when 86 free African Americans leave New York Harbor aboard the Mayflower of Liberia. They are bound for the British colony of Sierra Leone, which welcomes free African Americans as well as fugitive slaves.
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Feb
6
1820
African American Women College Presidents
On July 1, 1987, for the first time in history, there were three African American women serving as Presidents of Four Year Colleges and Universities in America.They were - Dr. Niara Sudarkasa- President of Lincoln University in Pennslyvania; Dr. Johnetta Cole, President of Spelman College in
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Jul
1
1987
Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca, one of the greatest military leaders of all time was born in Carthage, which is located in todays Tunisia, a northern country in Africa.
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