Meet the Visionaries Working to Keep Dirty Air From Making You Sick

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Meet the Visionaries Working to Keep Dirty Air From Making You Sick

By Alexa Spencer | Word In Black (WIB) - Black folks are more likely than others to live in polluted environments and experience poor respiratory health in the United States. As urgent […]

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Thomas Bradley was born on this day in Calvert, Texas and went on to become mayor of Los Angeles by winning 56% of the vote.

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29

1917

Percy Lavon Julian

Born: 4/11/1899 Montgomery, AlabamaDied: 4/19/1975 Waukegan, IllinoisPercy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial

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Born: 1/26/1892 Atlanta, Texas, United StatesDied: 4/30/1926 Jacksonville, FloridaBessie Coleman was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descent and is also the first Native American woman to hold a pilot license.She is also the first person of African

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Joycelyn Elders

Born: 8/13/1933 Schaal, ArkansasMinnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States.Business / Schooling: Awards

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Death of pianist Art Tatum

Death of pianist Art Tatum (46), Los Angeles.

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Nov

5

1956

United States Population: 23,191,876

United States Population: 23,191,876. Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7 per cent).

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Mar

31

1850

Muhammad Ali convicted in Houston, Texas, federal

Muhammad Ali convicted in Houston, Texas, in federal courts for violating Selective Service Act by refusing induction into the armed services. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. Ali, an opponent of the Vietnam War, had refused to report for service on grounds that he was

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Jun

20

1967

Bernard W. Robinson

Bernard W. Robinson, Harvard Medical student, made ensign in U.S. Naval Reserve and became first Black to win a commission in the U.S. Navy.

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Jun

18

1942

Mansa Musa I was considered the Mandingo Empire of Malis greatest king. Ruling an area at one time comparable in size to all of Western Europe, Mansa Musas empire was one of considerable wealth. Along with natural resources such as silver, gold, copper, and salt, it cultivated crops such as

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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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Josephine Baker

Born: 6/3/1906 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 4/12/1975 Paris, FranceJosephine Baker was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the Black Pearl, Bronze Venus and even the Creole Goddess. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri,Baker was

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Sam Cook, Father of Soul Music, born.

Singer Sam Cook, the son of a minister and believed by many to be the first father of soul music, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cook began his singing career with a gospel group known as the Singing Children. His fame came in 1965 with You and Me, Only 16, and his very famous Stand By Me and

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Jan

22

1931

Spingarn Medal: Damon J. Keith

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Nov

5

1974

First Slave revolt in America

The first slave revolt in America actually occurred 93 years

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1526

Anti-lynching Bill Proposed

African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.

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20

1900

Born: 7/1/1961 Birmingham, AlabamaUS, athletics Nine time Olympic gold medallist, Carl Lewis won gold over three Olympics and was the great star of 1980s track and field.Business / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:

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Jul

1

1961

A Day of Elections

Edward W. Brooke elected attorney general of Massachusetts. Gerald Lamb elected treasurer of Connecticut. Otis M. Smith elected to a full term on the Michigan Supreme Court. Five Blacks, including one newcomer, were elected to the House of Representatives. The newcomer, Augustus F. Hawkins, was

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Nov

6

1962

Leontyne Price has achieved heights in the music world that many aspire to but that very few reach. As a singer she became famous all around the world. Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927. As a youth, she sang in church choirs. Later, she attended Central State

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10

1927

Shirley Chisholm

Born: /30/924 Brooklyn, New YorkDied: //2005 Ormond Beach, FloridaShirley Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 968, she became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress, and represented New Yorks 2th Congressional District for seven terms from

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Born: 8/16/1955 Buffalo, New YorkCEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global and social challenges. McKinsey Social Initiatives first program, Generation, addresses the problem of youth

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Executive Order 9808

In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil

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Dec

5

1946

Frederick Douglass

Born: 2/1/1818 Maryland, United StatesDied: 2/20/1895 Washington, D.C., United StatesA former slave, Douglass became a leading figurehead in the anti-slavery movement. One of the most prominent African American leaders of the Nineteenth Century. His autobiography of life as a slave, and his

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The Black Settlers

Los Angeles, California, founded by forty-four settlers of whom at least twenty-six were descendants of Africans. Among the Black settlers, according to H.H. Bancrofts authoritative History of California, were Joseph Moreno, Mulatto, 22 years old, wife a Mulattress, five children; Manuel

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1781

J.H. Jackson, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, elected president of the National Baptist Convention at Miami meeting.

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1953

Rev. George Leile

Rev. George Leile was the first African American to be ordained a Baptist minister in America. He was an early pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Silver Bluf, South Carolina. Curiously, he supported the British during the American Revolutionary war because of the Britishs promise to free

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Jan

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1770

Minister Lott Cary left the United States leading a group of freed slaves, most of whom were members of the American Colonization Society, to colonize a small portion of West Africa. This area became known as the Republic of Liberia in 1847.

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Jan

23

1821

Spingarn Medal Awarded: Anthony Overton

Spingarn Medal awarded to Anthony Overton, publisher, insurance executive and cosmetics manufacturer, for his achievements as

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Dec

4

1927

First Black Mayor of Houston, Texas

Lee Brown became Houstons first black mayor narrowly defeating businessman Rob Mosbacher.

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Dec

6

1997

United States population: 131,669,275

United States population: 131,669,275. Black population: 12,865,518 (9.8 per cent). Richard Wrights Native Son published.

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28

1940

Florence Griffith Joyner, track legend born

Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner

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Dec

21

1959

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