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1773 - Pennsylvania slave trade is stifled after a 20-pound tax is imposed on every slave.
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Jan
0
1773
Supreme Court Ruling for Separate and Equal
Supreme Court ruled in railroad Jim Crow case brought by Congressman Arthur Mitchell that separate facilities must be substantially equal.
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Apr
28
1941
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1780 - Two blacks aid in the capture of British spy, Major John Andre, in New York.
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Jan
0
1780
Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I
Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and former
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Jan
4
1958
Classical Conductor Dean Dixon born.
Classical Conductor Dean Dixon is born in 1915 in Harlem, NY. Fluent in Swedish, French and German, Dixon became one of Europes best known conductors after leaving the US in 1949. He conducted the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony for 10 years before being named conductor for the Hessian Radio Symphony in
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Jan
10
1915
Supreme Court Rules on Busing
U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that busing was a constitutionally acceptable method of integrating public schools.
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Apr
20
1971
Horace Harding Pippin!!!
In West Chester, Pennsylvania, African American painter Horace Pippin was born. Pippin is considered one of the major American painters of his period. One of his more significant works, John Brown Going to His Hanging, is owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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Feb
22
1888
School established
The Cheyney State Training School was established in Pennsylvania.
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Dec
25
1837
New York Draft Riots
On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment
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Jul
13
1863
FIRST REPUBLIC SET UP BY FREED SLAVES
After departing New York Port in 1820 the first group of freed blacks landed first in Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone and later moved on to Bushrod Island in what is today in Monrovia and established a state. By the 1847 the country declared its independence.
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Jul
27
1847
Jupiter Hammon, 1st Black poet
Jupiter Hammon, New York slave who was probably the first Black poet, published An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries.
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Dec
25
1760
Democrat Grover Cleveland elected president
Democrat Grover Cleveland elected president.
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Nov
8
1892
Black Men and Women Elected To Congress
A record number of Black congressmen and the first Black woman representative were elected to Congress. The nine Black congressmen and Sen. Edward W. Brooke topped the previous high of eight in the Forty-fourth Congress of 1875-77. The first Black woman representative, Shirley Chisholm of the
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Nov
5
1968
U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said
U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said grandfather clauses in the Oklahoma and Maryland constitutions violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
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Jun
21
1915
James H. Meredith
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black vacated an order of a lower court, ruling that the University of Mississippi had to admit James H. Meredith, a Black Air Force veteran whose application for admission had been on file and in the courts for fourteen months.
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Sep
10
1962
Nella Larsen is born
Nella Larsen is born in Chicago, Ill. She will write two important novels of the Harlem Renaissance, Quicksand and
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Apr
13
1891
NAACP Executive Director
Death of Roy Wilkins (80), longtime executive director of the NAACP, in New York.
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Sep
8
1981
Clayton Powell almost dismissed from Government
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from the House of Representatives was unconstitutional.
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Jun
16
1969
Actress Melba Moore born
Birthday of actress Melba Moore in New York city.
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Oct
29
1945
Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard born
Sugar Ray Leonard
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May
17
1956
U.S. Supreme Court declared Civil Rights Act of
U.S. Supreme Court declared Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.
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Oct
15
1883
First Lutheran Baptism of African American
An African America man named Emmanuel was baptized April 13, 1669, (Palm Sunday) in a Lutheran congregation in New York.
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Apr
13
1669
Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868).
Born in Danville, Vermont, in 1792, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1814, and moved to York, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Gettysburg, PA for fourteen
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Jul
4
1861
NAACP incorporated in New York
NAACP incorporated in New York.
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Jun
20
1911
Arrests At Marches to Protest of Segregation
More than seven hundred demonstrators, including Martin Luther King Jr., arrested in Albany, Ga., in five mass marches on city hall to protest segregation. Arrests triggered militant Albany movement.
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Dec
12
1961
Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v
Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive convenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.
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May
3
1948
Admittance of student to U of California Medical
U.S. Supreme Court ordered the University of California Medical School at Davis to admit Allan P. Bakke in so-called reverse discrimination suit.
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Jun
28
1978
The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urgesits members to educat
The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urges its members to educate their slaves.
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Jan
0
1787
Fiftieth Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation
Black Americans celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation. Major celebrations were held at Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans and Nashville. Three states--Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey--appropriated money for official celebrations of the event.
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Jan
29
1913
Legal
The first black lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court ws John S. Rock of Massachusetts, who was certified by the court on February 1, 1865.
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Feb
1
1865
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