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Jimi Hendrix
Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix
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Branham, George, III (1962- )
George Branham III is best known as the first African American to win a major Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) title and one of the very few men of color in professional bowling.  Branham was born on November 21, 1962 in Detroit Michigan. His father, George Branham Jr., was an avid bowler who
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1962
Foster, Abigail Kelley
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Adedeji, Adebayo and L. Rowland Management Problems of Rapid Urbanisation in Nigeria Yes
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The First U.S. Merchant Ship
Booker T. Washington, the first U.S. merchant ship commanded by a Black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington, Delaware.
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29
1940
Belle, Dido Elizabeth (1761-1804)
Dido Elizabeth Belle is best known for the 1779 painting of her alongside her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, the great-niece of William Murray, The First Earl of Mansfield. The Earl, also known as Lord Mansfield, was at the time the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the highest ranking
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Djibouti
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DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)
A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871.  In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator.  DePriest created his own
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1951
Negritude Movement
The literary movement, Negritude, was born out of the Paris intellectual environment of 1930s and 1940s. It is a product of black writers joining together through the French language to assert their cultural
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Challenger
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African Company / African Grove Theatre
The African Company was the first known black theatre troupe. In 1816, William Henry Brown (1815-1884), a retired West Indian steamship steward, acquired a house on Thomas Street in lower Manhattan, New York. He offered a variety of instrumental and vocal entertainments on Sunday afternoons in his
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Webb, Wellington E. (1941- )
Wellington Webb was born in Chicago in 1941.  He came to Denver at a very early age and before entering politics he was a forklift operator. Webb’s public service career began in 1972 when he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. In 1977, he was selected by President James Carter to
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Leslie M. Alexander (1948- )
Ambassador Leslie M. Alexander was a Career Foreign Service Officer. He was appointed by President William J. Clinton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to three nations: Mauritius and the Comoros where he served from 1993 to 1996, Ecuador where he served from 1996 to 1999, and Haiti where he served from
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(1900) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”
Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States.  What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January
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Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
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First Black captain of a US merchant ship, Hugh Mulzac, launches with the Booker
First Black captain of a US merchant ship, Hugh Mulzac, launches with the Booker T Washington, 1942
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Louise Bennett-Coverley
the Hon Louise Bennett-Coverley is regarded as the mother of storytelling in the Caribbean. a jamaican , Miss Lou, as she is affectionately known studied at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts as a result of British Council Scholarship. She had her own BBC Radio programme called Caribbean
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Seacole, Mary Jane (1805 –1881)
Mary Jane Grant Seacole was an early nurse in the British Empire during the 19th Century. Born in Kingston, Jamaica as Mary Grant, she was the daughter of a Scottish officer and a black mother. Mary’s mother ran a hospital/boarding house in Kingston and she, after a brief period as
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1881
Garvey, Marcus
Garvey, Marcus, 1887–1940, American proponent of black nationalism, b. Jamaica. At the age of 14, Garvey went to work as a printers apprentice. After leading (1907) an unsuccessful printers strike in Jamaica, he edited several newspapers in Costa Rica and Panama. During a period in London he took
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Robert Smalls steals Confederate ship
It has just gotten dark on the evening of May 12, 1862. General Roswell Ripley and the other white confederate officers of the
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White, Joseph Silvestre (1835–1918)
Composer and violinist Jose Silvestre White was born in Matansas, Cuba in 1835 to Don Carlos White and an Afro-Cuban mother. His father gave White his first instruction in violin, and he later studied with Jose Miguel Roman and Pedro Lecerff. In 1854, at eighteen, he gave his first concert
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Herman Cain
Herman Cain is the retired businessman and lobbyist from Georgia who in 2011 ran for the Republican nomination for president. Herman Cain came to politics late in life, rising to prominence after a public debate in 1994 with President Bill Clinton over the presidents plan to reform health care. At
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James, Makila (1957- )
Makila James is currently serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland.  James was nominated by President Barack Obama early in 2012.  Following confirmation by the U.S. Senate on July 31, 2012, James arrived in Mbabane, the capital of Swaziland and presented her credentials to the King of Swaziland
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The Notting Hill Riots (1958)
Amidst racial intolerance and competition over resources, the white working class of the Notting Hill area, London, UK, launched an attack against members of the black community on August the 30, 1958. Forced to arm themselves in defence, the confrontation lasted
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