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Michael Strahan is heading to space. In a recent interview, the Good Morning America anchor broke down what personal items

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First Black Grandmaster

Maurice Ashley, an immigrant from Jamaica, was 14 and living in Brooklyn, when he feel in love with the game of chess after reading a book about Paul Morphy, a 19th-century Louisianian who was Americas first great chess

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17

1999

New York Draft Riots

On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment

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13

1863

Irene Cara born

Actress-singer-songwriter Irene Cara is born in New York City

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Mar

18

1959

A challenger in Major League Baseball

On this day in 1997, former major league outfielder Curt Flood, who challenged baseballs reserve system and made possible todays megasalaries, dies at age 59.

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Jan

20

1997

Lincoln Motion Picture Company

African American audiences were generally ignored by the major motion picture studios in the first two decades of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, demand for films aimed at black theaters in both the South and larger Northern cities prompted the formation of several “black” motion picture

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Ashley, Maurice (1966- )

Maurice Ashley, the first African American chess grandmaster, was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica on March 6, 1966. At age 12, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where Ashley began to develop an interest in chess. Although he spent several hours a day playing and studying the game, he did not play

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Mar

6

1966

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmens Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. The measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37. A Black delegation, led by Frederick Douglas

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Feb

5

1866

Owens, Major Robert (1936- )

Former New York Congressman Major Robert Owens was born on June 28, 1936 in Collierville, Tennessee. He graduated from Hamilton High School in Memphis in 1952 at the age of 16. Owens received a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College in 1956, and an M.S. in Library Science from Atlanta

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28

1936

Born: 12/13/1903 Norfolk, VirginiaDied: 12/13/1986 New York City, New Yorkella baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights

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Constitution Approved in South Carolina

South Carolina voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228, and elected state officers, including the first Black cabinet officer, Francis L. Cardozo, secretary of state. New constitution required integrated education and contained a strong bill of rights section: Distinctions on account of race

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Apr

14

1868

Jane Matilda Bolin appointed judge of court

Jane Matilda Bolin appointed judge of court of domestic relations in New York City, by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and became the first Black woman judge.

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Jul

22

1939

Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City

Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City.

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Sep

7

1800

The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since reconstruction was passed by

The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since reconstruction was passed by President Eisenhower, 1957

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Sep

9

1957

Eartha Kitt was a singer and actress who recorded the hit holiday song “Santa Baby”. She was born on January 17, 1927 in South Carolina to an African American mother and a white father. She was raised by Anna Mae Riley, as her biological mother had abandoned her. It wasn’t until later

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17

1927

Former Saint Louis Cardinals first baseman Bill White is named president of the

Former Saint Louis Cardinals first baseman Bill White is named president of the National League. He is the first African American to head a major sports league.

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Feb

3

1989

John Hope honored by NAACP

John Hope, now president of Atlanta University, was honored in New York City by the NAACP for his achievements as an educational and civil rights leader.

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Jul

3

1936

Top 10 Most Famous Black Actors of All Time

Hollywood is a giant industry which provides work to hundreds of actors. At the advent of this industry only white actors ruled the silver screen and the blacks were given only minor roles. As the time progressed, blacks were given the voice in the society and eventually allowed white collar

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Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. Wright, Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all

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Slightly larger than Colorado, Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Its neighbors are Côte dIvoire, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, and Ghana. The country consists of extensive plains, low hills, high savannas, and a desert area in the

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Ezzard Charles defeated Joe Louis

Ezzard Charles defeated Joe Louis in heavyweight championship fight in New York City.

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Sep

27

1950

Frazier A Boutelle is commissioned as second lieeutenant in the Fifth New York C

Frazier A Boutelle is commissioned as second lieeutenant in the Fifth New York Calvary

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Nov

5

1862

Olajuwon, Hakeem

Olajuwon, Hakeem | FactMonster

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Did You Know That In...

1773 - Pennsylvania slave trade is stifled after a 20-pound tax is imposed on every slave.

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Jan

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1773

Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of

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Robert Smalls steals Confederate ship

It has just gotten dark on the evening of May 12, 1862. General Roswell Ripley and the other white confederate officers of the

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May

12

1862

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

Anti-Lynching Bill proposed

Black Congressman George H. White, North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. One report contends that in 1900, 105 Africans were lynched in the United States.

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Jan

20

1773

Born: 9/20/1958 New York City, New YorkBurns was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009, and over the last 5 years, she has worked tirelessly towards transforming the company’s image as a manufacturer of printers to a full-fledged services business. And it’s working well. Services now represent 57% of the

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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes published more than three dozen books during his life, starting out with poetry and then expanding into novels, short stories, and plays. He is closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of African-American literature and music in New York City following World War

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Taylor, Ruth Carol (1931- )

Journalist and nurse Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African American airline flight attendant in the United States when she joined Mohawk Airlines in 1958. While she is most commonly known for her achievement in the airline industry, she spent much of her career as an activist for minority and

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1958

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