No Charges Brought Against Coworker Who Killed Jamaican Immigrant Peter Spencer

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No Charges Brought Against Coworker Who Killed Jamaican Immigrant Peter Spencer

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Congressman, attorney, diplomat, dean of the law school and president of Howard University, John Mercer Langston was born, 1829

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1829

Richard Parsons

Richard Parsons, CEO of Dime Savings Bank, the first African American CEO of a large non minority U.S. savings institution, born.

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Apr

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1942

Anti-Slavery Society started

American Anti-Slavery Society

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Dec

4

1833

Bertram M. Lee and Peter C.B. Bynoe sign an agreement to purchase the National B

Bertram M. Lee and Peter C.B. Bynoe sign an agreement to purchase the National Basketball Associations Denver Nuggets for $54 million. They become the first African American owners of a professional basketball team.

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Oct

21

1989

White Democrats attacked demonstrators

White Democrats attacked demonstrators, who were marching from Albany to Camilla, Ga., and killed nine Blacks. Several whites were wounded.

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Sep

19

1868

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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Mar

3

1869

War of 1812: Although the U.S. Army did not enlist African Americans after the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Navy continued to use African Americans as seamen because of the perennial shortage of white sailors. The African American presence in the navy placed them at the center of the naval incident

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16

2002

James B. Parsons, first African American ap

James B. Parsons, first African American appointed to a lifetime federal judgeship in the U.S. (1961) , born

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Aug

13

1911

Lawrence Douglas Wilder assumes title as governor

In Richmond, Virginia former Lt. Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder took office as the first popularly elected African American governor of an American state.

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Jan

14

1990

The first African American performers

The first African American performers, the Worlds Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall.

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Feb

13

1892

David Ruggles dies in Northampton, Mass. Often called the first African American bookseller for his bookstore established in 1834, Ruggles was an abolitionist, and a conductor on the Underground Railroad

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Dec

26

1849

Zora Neale Hurston, writer/anthropologist born

Zora Neale Hurston

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Jan

7

1891

Massachusetts bars blacks and Native Americans from military service becauseco

Massachusetts bars blacks and Native Americans from military service because colonists fear black and Native American uprisings.

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Jan

0

1656

A Demonstration Led by NAACP

NAACP led protest demonstrations against the showing of the movie Birth of

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Dec

4

1915

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937).

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Nov

15

2001

Beatrice Foods is acquired by Reginald Lewis.

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Aug

9

1987

Anti-lynching Bill Proposed

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Jan

20

1900

Lee Elder becomes the first African American professional golfer to qualify for

Lee Elder becomes the first African American professional golfer to qualify for the Masters Tournament.

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Apr

21

1974

Moneta Sleet becomes the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his

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May

5

1969

Joseph Haynes Rainey

Joseph Haynes Rainey, first African American representative in the U.S. House of Representatives where he will serve five terms, born

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Jun

21

1832

Through the 3 White Democrats and police attacked

Through the 3 White Democrats and police attacked freedmen and their white allies in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty-six Blacks and two white liberals were killed. More than seventy were wounded. Ninety homes, twelve schools and four churches were burned.

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May

1

1866

Rafer Johnson won the Olympic Decathlon

On Sept. 6, 1960 Rafer Johnson won the Olympic Decathlon--the first for an African American

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Sep

6

1960

Samuel L. Gravely is born

Samuel Gravely was appointed captain of the Navy Destroyer Escort, U.S.S. Falgout, the first African American to command a United States warship. He later received the rand of Rear Admiral, a first for an African American navyman.

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Jun

4

1922

African American Captures British General

African American Captures British General Prescott: African Americans continued to serve in the colonial militias, and some, like Prince, an African American man in Lieutenant Colonel Bartons Rhode island army, showed great daring and bravery. Early in August 1777, Colonel Barton conceived a plan

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Aug

3

2002

Renowned attorney Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander dies in Philadelphia

Renowned attorney Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander dies in Philadelphia

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Nov

6

1989

War of Independence

Militia Integrated in the War of Independence: The first integrated army in American history was the colonial militia that fought the early battles of the War of Independence. African American minutemen fought on the front lines in the first battles against British authority: African Americans

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Apr

19

1775

Actress, Writer

Born on this day in Winston-Salem, N.C., USA. Pamala Suzette Grier is one of the most important African American actresses of the 1970s

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May

26

1949

First Prizefighter Bill Richmond born

Bill Richmond, son of a slave, became the first African American to distinguish himself as a prizefighter. On this date, Richmond knocked out Jack Holmes in England.

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Jul

8

1805

African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites

African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites: By 1777, losses on the field of battle and rising White desertions had reduced the Continental Armys ranks of men. Northern colonies began to accept African Americans, free and slave, because these colonies could not fill their quotas with White man. In

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Oct

5

2002

Debbye Turner is crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win

Debbye Turner is crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win the crown since the inception of the pageant in 1921.

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1989

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