Morgan State University Receives Historic Gift From MacKenzie Scott

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Morgan State University Receives Historic Gift From MacKenzie Scott

MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, gifted Morgan State University $40 million, making it the largest single private donation in the university’s history.

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White Democrats seized statehouse in Louisiana coup detat. President Grant ordered the revolutionaries to disperse, and the rebellion collapsed. Twenty-seven persons (sixteen whites and eleven Blacks) were killed in battles between Democrats and Republicans.

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14

1874

Thurgood Marshall

Born: 7/2/908 Baltimore, MarylandDied: /24/993 Bethesda, MarylandThurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 967 until October 99. Marshall was the Courts 96th justice and its first African-American justice.Business

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James Meredith is a 20th century eminent American Civil Rights Movement figure. He was involved in political advisory committee and also wrote about the social inequality issues. Besides, he was a war veteran and was the first black to be admitted in an all-white

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25

1933

Peter "The Black Prince" Jackson wins the Australian heavyweight title, becoming

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25

1886

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Ghana became an independent state

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6

1957

NAACP Elects Kweisi Mfume

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9

1995

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Jun

2

1963

Attorney General George Williams

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Dec

12

1872

Black Woman named "American Mother of the Year."

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1

1946

John Mercer Langston (1829-97).

In October, 1868, John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University, the first in a black school. He headed the department when classes formally began on January 6, 1869, and was its dean from 1870 to 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he was vice-president and acting

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Jan

6

1869

Etta Moten sings for President

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31

1934

Condoleezza Rice

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1864

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Henry McNeal Turner Born

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1834

1st Black chariman of P.C.G.E.P.

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3

1957

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10

1999

Courts order University to admit a black

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Nov

5

1935

Parren James Mitchell

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Apr

29

1922

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Nov

10

1831

Death of mathematician Benjamin Banneker (74), in

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Oct

9

1806

Rosalind Brewer

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30

1962

Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche

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Jul

4

1963

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Mar

29

1959

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4

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