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Mother's Organization wants to electrify Yellow School Buses | The Atlanta Voice

Moms Clean Air Force, a national organization of parents dedicated to fighting air pollution, held a press conference to call on state and federal officials to fight climate change by taking steps to convert school buses from traditional diesel to electric. Almeta Cooper, Moms Clean Air Force’s Georgia field organizer had speakers from private industry and the public sector speak […]

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1970

President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg,

President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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5

1875

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Barthelemy Boganda, President and founder of the Central African Republic, dies in a plane crash.

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29

1959

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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0

1770

Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President of Senegal.

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5

1960

Juanita Hall becomes the first African American

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9

1950

Zora Neale Hurston, writer/anthropologist born

Zora Neale Hurston

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7

1891

The Flip Wilson Show premieres on NBC. It is the first prime time variety show

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17

1970

Richard Theodore Greener

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30

1844

William Levi Dawson

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26

1883

First Prizefighter Bill Richmond born

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8

1805

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson appears on the cover of Life magazine; first time an African American is featured on the cover in the magazines 13 year history

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10

1950

Spottiswood W. Robinson

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26

1916

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8

1965

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Associates of Dr. Thomas Bray establish a school inGeorgia for the education o

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1751

Blacks Education Attempt Denied

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Segregation Movements

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William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor

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14

1975

Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen (1932-).

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6

1950

1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of

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24

1893

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24

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Presidential Assistant E. Frederic Morrow born

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20

1909

Mary Eliza Mahoney

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1879

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18

1753

The Cotton Bag Fort

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2002

Doris A. Davis of Compton, California becom

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5

1973

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5

1974

Leander Jay Shaw, Jr., justice of the Florida State Supreme Court (1983), first

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Jump Start premieres in 40 newspapers in the U.S. It is created by 26 year old R

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