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Macon Bolling Allen is believed to be the first black man in the United States who was licensed to practice law. Born Allen Macon Bolling in 1816 in Indiana, he grew up a free man.  Bolling learned to read and write on his on his own and eventually landed his first a job as a schoolteacher where he
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James & Lydia Sims
During World War II, Lydia Sims moved from Newark, New Jersey, to Spokane with her husband, James Sims, an Army Air Force soldier stationed at Geiger Airfield.  At the end of the war, the Sims family decided to remain in Spokane.  For 10 years they lived in the Garden Springs housing
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Benin
National name: Republique du Benin
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Darryl Parker is an employment, civil rights, and personal injury attorney with the Civil Rights Justice Center PLLC in Seattle, Washington. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Fordham University and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has considerable trial and
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"Mad Men" in Black: African Americans in the Twentieth Century U.S. Advertising Industry
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Namibia
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Williams, Camilla (1919-2012)
Professional opera singer Camilla Williams was born October 18, 1919 in Danville, Virginia to Fannie Carey Williams and Cornelius Booker Williams. The youngest of four siblings, Williams began singing at a young age and was performing at her local church by age eight. At age 12, she began taking
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29
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Washington (State) Omnibus Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Powell v. Alabama (1932)
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Alaska Fair Employment Practices Law (1953)
Relating to and providing far the elimination of certain practice of discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin; providing
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First Baptist Church [St. Louis, Missouri] (1817- )
First Baptist Church in St. Louis, founded as First African Baptist Church, is the oldest continuously operating black church in Missouri. The precursor to the church was founded by John Peck and James Welch, two white Baptist missionaries sent west in 1817 by the Baptist Triennial Missionary
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Wright, Jonathan J. (1840-1885)
Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Susquehanna County in the northeastern corner of the state.  In 1858, Wright traveled to Ithaca, New York where he enrolled in the Lancasterian
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Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur
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Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama
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Watson, Barbara Mae (1918-1983)
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McCollum, Ruby (1909-1992)
Born Ruby Jackson on August 31, 1909, Jackson was a wealthy married African American woman in Live Oak, Florida, who was arrested and convicted for killing a prominent white doctor in 1952, who at the time was also a Florida State
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The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance
In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no visible African ancestry “pass” into the Caucasian race or other races to avoid the stigma associated with anti-black racial discrimination
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Wynn, Albert R. (1951- )
Albert Russel Wynn is Democratic representative of the State of Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. He is currently serving his eighth term. The district includes parts of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Wynn was defeated in the
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Forde, George Patrick Alphonse (1882-1967)
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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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1966
Foxx, Anthony Renard (1971- )
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Hastings, Alcee L. (1936- )
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