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The people have spoken. According to a recent study Travis Scott was voted the most influential person according to the culture. As spotted on HipHopDX Cactus Jack may now add a very unique notch on his belt. Complex recently ran a study where their staff asked individuals ranging from the ages of 18 to 34 […]

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After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada

The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned? In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African

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Texas As a Slave State

President John Tyler signed the joint resolution of Congress to admit Texas as a slave state.

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The Moynihan Report (1965)

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1965

Black Regiment founded

The 38th and 41st Infantry regiments were joined and became the 24th Infantry Regiment, the third of four proposed African American regiments in teh U.S. Army. Following the Civil War the regiment was poted in Texas from 1869 to 1880.

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3

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Brown, Jill E. (1950- )

Jill Elaine Brown became the first African American woman to serve as a pilot for a major U.S airline when she was hired by Texas international Airlines at the age of 28. Her passion for flying began as a teenager, leading her into the U.S. Navy flight training program where she became its first

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Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)

Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas

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A New Era Begins: The Significance of the Barack Obama Victory, 2008

In the article below Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large provides his perspective on the importance of the Obama victory for the Presidency on Nov. 4, 2008 and the way it forever changed the United

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Elizabeth City State University (1891- )

Elizabeth City State University was established in 1891 as a response to a bill, enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly, which proposed the creation of a normal school for the training of black teachers in the state. Located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, the University is

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The Texas Emancipation Proclamation (June 19, 1865)

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Scott, Gloria Dean Randle (1938- )

Civic and educational leader Gloria Dean Randle Scott, the first African-American president of the Girl Scouts of America and the twelfth president of Bennett College, was born on April 14, 1938 in Houston, Texas to Juanita Bell and Freeman Randle. Scott grew up in Houston, attending Blackshear

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1938

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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1936

Contributor List

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Spearman, Leonard H.O. (1929-2008)

Dr. Leonard Hall OConnell Spearman was the U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda and Lesotho. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Spearman was born July 8, 1929. In 1947 Spearman graduated from Florida A&M College (now Florida A&M University), in Tallahassee, Florida, with a B.S. in biological

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Ezion-Mount Carmel United Methodist Church [Wilmington, Delaware] (1789- )

Ezion-Mount Carmel United Methodist Church, formerly known as Ezion Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Carmel Methodist Episcopal Church, has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating black church in the state of Delaware. Ezion Methodist Episcopal Church was created by the

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Craig Washington wins a special congressional election in Texas' 18 th District

Craig Washington wins a special congressional election in Texas 18 th District to fill the seat vacated by the death of Mickey Leland.

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The Voting Rights Acts of 1965

AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other

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Wooten, Howard A. (1920-1948)

Tuskegee Airman Howard Adolphus Wooten was born on April 20, 1920 in Lovelady, Texas to parents Johnnie C. Morris Wooten and Howard L. Wooten. His father was the principal of the “colored school” in Lovelady, a town 100 miles north of Houston, and his mother also was a teacher

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Race riots, Longview and Gregg counties

Race riots, Longview and Gregg counties, Texas. Martial law declared. There were twenty-six riots during the Red Summer of 1919.

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Whitehead, Arch Colson “Colson” (1969- )

Born Arch Colson Whitehead on November 6, 1969, novelist Colson Whitehead spent his formative years in Manhattan, New York with his parents, Arch and Mary Anne Whitehead, who owned a recruiting firm, and three siblings. Of his childhood, he has said that he preferred reading science fiction and

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The 1928 Bunion Derby: America’s Brush with Integrated Sports

In the following account sports historian Charles Kastner describes the Bunion Derby, the 1928 cross country footrace that captured the nation’s attention in the spring of 1928 and the remarkable group of black runners who participated in that event. For a detailed discussion of the race, see

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(2017) New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

On May 19, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed an audience in his city as a backdrop and explanation of the city’s recent decision to remove statutes of General Robert E. Lee and other Confederate military and political leaders from public squares in New Orleans. His speech

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Thurman Lee Thomas is a retired professional football player who played as a running back with the Buffalo Bills. He was born on May 16, 1966 in Houston Texas. He started playing football at a young age. He was part of his high school football team at Missouri City Junior High School and

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1966

Sheryl Denise Swoopes is a retired professional basketball player and the first player to be signed on to the WNBA when it was created. She was born on March 25, 1971 in Brownfield, Texas to Louise Swoopes. She had three older brothers with whom she grew up playing basketball. At the age of seven

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Ruth Robinson’s tenth and last child, Frank Robinson Jr., was born in August 31, 1935 after her marriage to her third husband, Frank Robinson. Unfortunately, her third marriage did not work out either and the mother moved to California from Texas with Robinson Jr. and his two

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April 3, 1944. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling declared that Blacks could not be barred form voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The high court repudiated the contention that political parties are private associations and held that discrimination aginst Blacks violated the 15th

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1944

(1867) Frederick Douglass, “Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage”

? In 1867 Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and civil rights leader, weighed in on one of the most contentious issues of the day, suffrage for black men following the Civil War. His address, given in January 1867, during the Congressional debate on black male voting in the territories, appear

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African Americans in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta: The Black Community of Weed, California

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Mason-Dixon Line

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Collecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era

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