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Otis Boykin
Otis F. Boykin was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. After graduating high school, he attended Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated in 1941 and took a job as a laboratory assistant with the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation in Chicago, Illinois. He undertook various tasks but
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Associates of Dr. Thomas Bray establish a school inGeorgia for the education o
Associates of Dr. Thomas Bray establish a school in Georgia for the education of blacks and Native Americans; Bray sets up a similar school in North Carolina.
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Jan
0
1751
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date, held in Washington.
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May
17
1957
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
March 26, 2003, Argued
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Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois
On this day Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, Mass.
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Feb
23
1868
Executive Order 9808
In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil
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Dec
5
1946
Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator.
Blanche Kelso Bruce was a US Senator from Mississippi; the first black man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate. While serving in the senate, he was an advocate for civil rights for blacks, native Americans, Chinese immigrants and
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May
21
1881
Georgia constitutional convention
Georgia constitutional convention (33 Blacks, 137 whites) open in Atlanta.
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Dec
9
1867
(1906) W.E.B. DuBois, “Men of Niagara”
In 1906, one year after the Niagara Movement was founded, it held its second annual meeting at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.  W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding member and its titular leader, gave the address below to the assembled civil rights
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Highland Beach, Maryland (1893- )
Highland Beach, Maryland, the oldest of the major black resort towns, was founded along the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in 1893 by Charles and Laura Douglass.  Charles Douglass was the son of prominent abolitionist and 19th century civil rights activist Frederick Douglass. Major Charles
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(1963) John Lewis, “We Must Free Ourselves”
John Lewis, then the 23-year-old Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was asked to speak at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.  When A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders saw the draft of his speech which was critical of both the
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Aug
28
1963
Ebony Magazine
Ebony, a pictorial news magazine published by Chicago, Illinois-based Johnson Publishing Company, first appeared in November 1945. Created by John H. Johnson, who modeled his publication after Life magazine, Ebony celebrated African American life and culture by depicting the achievements of black
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Jefferson F. Long born
Jefferson F. Long, a merchant and tailor, was born in Knoxville, Georgia. He became the first African American from Georgia elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving two months and 9 days.
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Mar
3
1836
Lower house of Georgia legislature
Lower house of Georgia legislature, ruling that Blacks were ineligible to hold office, expelled twenty-eight representatives. Ten days later the senate expelled three Blacks. Congress refused to admit the state until the legislature seated the Black representatives.
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Sep
3
1868
Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope
In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was
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May
17
1954
Martin Luther King was denied freedom of speech!
When martin Luther King came to chicago in the late 60s, no church would let him speak, but one! All the others said he was a radial
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Jun
26
1967
Spingarn Medal: Clarence Mitchell Jr.
Clarence Mitchell Jr., director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP, awarded the Spingarn Medal for the pivotal role he....played in enactment of civil rights
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Dec
4
1969
Julian Bond, communications director of the
Julian Bond, communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, denied seat in Georgia House of Representatives because of his opposition to Vietnam War.
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Jan
10
1966
Dixon, Julian (1934-2000)
Born in Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1934, Julian Dixon represented part of Los Angeles in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-two years. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960, Dixon attended California State University, Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1962 and
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Aug
8
1934
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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Jan
29
2012
Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson,
Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belfonte and A. Phillip Randolph, participated in the Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington. Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, and the nine students who integrated Little Rockss Central High School were awarded
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Oct
25
1958
Grant Chapel AME Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1883- )
GrantChapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was the first black church in NewMexico and was organized during the state’s territorial period.   Although New Mexico Territory had a few slavesbefore the Civil War, African Americans began arriving in the region insignificant numbers after
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(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"
Controversial remarks drawn from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unpaid campaign advisor to Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, and his pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, emerged as a lingering issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.  On March
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Mar
18
2008
Coretta Scott King
Born: 4/27/927 Heiberger, AlabamaDied: /30/2006 Rosarito Beach, MexicoCoretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 953 until his death in 968. Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in
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Henry Rucker appointed collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia, 1897
Henry Rucker appointed collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia, 1897
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Aug
4
1897
Theodore Flowers middleweight boxing champ
Theodore Georgia Deacon Flowers wins middleweight boxing title.
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Feb
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1926
1787 Georgia's House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin,William
1787 Georgias House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgias commissioners to the Philadelphia constitutional convention.
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Feb
10
1787
Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898)
Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841 in Prince Edward County, Virginia but was raised in Missouri. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, Bruce fled to Kansas, becoming a free man before Lincoln’s Emancipation
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Jefferson F. Long
Jefferson F. Long of Georgia sworn in as the second Black Congressman.
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Jan
16
1871
W.E.B. DuBois
Born: 2/23/868 Great Barrington, MassachusettsDied: 8/27/963 Accra, GhanaWilliam Edward Burghardt W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and
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