Post-Traumatic Blackness Disorder: The Mental Toll of Surviving Racism

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Sidney Poitier born

2/20/1927: On this day Sidney Poitier, who will be the first AfricanAmerican to win an Academy Award in a starring role, is born in Miami, Fl. (Can you name the movie he received the Academy Award for?)

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Feb

20

1927

Alabama Educational Television Commission

Alabama Educational Television Commission has its application for license renewal denied by the Federal Communications Commission because of racial discrimination against African Americans in employment and programming.

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Jan

8

1975

California and Colorado Elect a Lt.Governor

State Sen. Mervyn M. Dymally elected lieutenant governor of California. State Sen. Georgia L. Brown elected lieutenant governor of Colorado.

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Nov

5

1974

Ella Fitzgerald Born

Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song, born. In 1934, an awkward sixteen-year-old girl made her singing debut at the Harlem Apollo Theatre amateur night in New York City. She intended to dance, but she lost her nerve when she got on stage. The man said, do something while youre out there, the singer

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Apr

25

1918

George H. White

George H. White, the only African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, (1896) and the first to introduce an antilynching bill, born. He also founded Whitesboro, N,J, as a haven for African Americans escaping Southern racism.

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Dec

18

1852

Brook Benton, holder of 16 gold records including "A Rainy Night in Georgia" , b

Brook Benton, holder of 16 gold records including A Rainy Night in Georgia , born

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Sep

19

1931

Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the familys eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earls civil

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May

19

1925

Birmingham Blacks / Jim Crow Bus Laws

Birmingham Blacks began mass defiance of Jim Crow bus laws.

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Dec

26

1956

Huey P. Newton killed

Black Panther Party Co-founder Huey P. Newton was gunned down by a member of the Black Guerila Family drug ring.

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Aug

22

1989

Segregation Movements

Tennessee started modern segregation movement with Jim Crow railroad car and was followed by Florida (1887), Mississippi (1888), Texas (1889), Louisiana (1890), Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Georgia (1891), South Carolina (1898), North Carolina (1899), Virginia (1900), Maryland (1904), Oklahoma

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Dec

24

1881

Georgia legislature, bowing to legal decisions and

Georgia legislature, bowing to legal decisions and national pressure, seated Rep. Julian Bond, a critic of the Vietnam War.

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Jan

9

1967

Howard T Ward becomes Georgia's first Black Superior Court Judge

Howard T Ward becomes Georgias first Black Superior Court Judge

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Jan

24

1977

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, is born

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, Born May 29, 1914 in Mexia, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science from Wiley College in 1934 and a Master of Science from Atlanta University in 1936. Henry McBay earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1945. McBay served as an Instructor

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May

29

1914

Born: 2/20/1927 Miami, FloridaSir Sidney Poitier, KBE, is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat. In 1964, Poitier became the first Bahamian and first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role in Lilies of the FieldAwards / Achievements:

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Florence Price, composer born

Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florences mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.She had her first recital by the age of four and had composed and published her first musical

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Apr

9

1888

Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of

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1st Black to Speak in US House of Representatives

Jefferson Long of Georgia became the first Black to make an official speech in the House of Representatives. He opposed leniency to former Confederates.

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Feb

1

1871

Black state convention at Macon, Georgia,

Black state convention at Macon, Georgia, protested expulsion of Black politicians from Georgia legislature.

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Oct

6

1868

First Black Major League Umpire

Emmett Ashford became the first Black major league umpire.

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Apr

11

1966

PBS Pinchback, born

Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback was born in rural Georgia. Pinchback entered Louisiana politics after the Civil War and became lieutenant governor of that Reconstruction Era state. For 43 days he actually served the office of governor of the state.

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May

10

1837

Pres. Kennedy Supports Blacks

President Kennedy denounced the burning of churches in Georgia and supported voter registration drive in the South.

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Sep

13

1962

One Black killed and two whites injured in shoot-out between activists and police officers in a New Orleans housing project.

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Sep

14

1970

Events After Martin Luther King Jr's Death

Martin Luther King Jr. buried after funeral services at Ebenezer Baptist Church and memorial services at Morehouse College, Atlanta. More than 300,000 persons marched behind the coffin of the slain leader which was carried through streets of Atlanta on farm wagon pulled by two Georgia

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Apr

9

1968

Fritz Pollard becomes the first black to play Professional football for a major team, the Akron Indians. Pollard was also the first Black to play in the Rose Bowl.

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Sep

18

1919

Inquest over Negro Killing

An inquest was held by Justice of the Peace T.M. Richards on September 24, 1928 over the killing of :Coote Simpsons, Negro, Twenty-second street, who was killed by the rifle of a Florida National Guardsman on special detail duty at noon on September 23, 1928 for refusing to leave his bicycle and go

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Jan

0

1999

Collins, George Washington (1925-1972)

Born on March 5, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, George Washington Collins graduated from Waller High School and immediately joined the United States Army in 1943 at the age of 18. He rose to the rank of sergeant and was discharged in 1946. Collins attended the Central Y.M.C.A. College in

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William Henry Lewis is the first black chosen to playon Amherst (MA) College's

William Henry Lewis is the first black chosen to play on Amherst (MA) Colleges football team.

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Jan

0

1868

William and Ellen Craft escaped from slavery

William and Ellen Craft escaped from slavery in Georgia. Mrs. Craft impersonated a slave holder and her husband, William, assumed the role of her servant in one of the most dramatic of the slave escapes.

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Dec

26

1848

Another Black Church Destroyed

A Black church was destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia. This was the eighth church burned in Georgia since August 15.

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Sep

25

1962

More Racial disturbances

Forty injured in racial disturbances in Miami, Florida.

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Jul

5

1975

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