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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Challenges Clarence Thomas On ‘Bully’ Remark

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on an ethics code for the Supreme Court, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries took issue with Justice Clarence Thomas's recent remarks.

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First Black Appointed to a Sub-Cabinet Post

William Henry Lewis was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States by President William Howard Taft, making him the first Black appointed to a sub-cabinet post.

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Nov

26

1911

Bodies of three civil rights workers discovered on

Bodies of three civil rights workers discovered on farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Three young men, two white and one Black, had been missing since June 21. FBI said they were murdered on night of their disappearance by segregationists. Eighteen whites, including several police officers, were

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Aug

4

1964

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

White conservatives suppressed Black vote

White conservatives suppressed Black vote and captured Tennessee legislative in election marred by assassinations and widespread violence. Campaign effectively ended Radical Reconstruction in North Carolina. The conservative legislature impeached Governor Holden on December 14.

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Aug

6

1870

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organized at a mass meeting in Elks Hall in Harlem. A Philip Randolph was elected president. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters would become one of the most successful union organizing efforts in history. The union gave voice to the many railroad porters and

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Aug

25

1925

Anti-lynching Bill Proposed

African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.

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Jan

20

1900

Marcus Garvey entered federal prison in Atlanta

Marcus Garvey entered federal prison in Atlanta. Students staged strike at Fisk University to protest policies of white administration.

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Feb

8

1925

Basketball star Walt Frazier born

Basketball legend Walt Frazier was born in

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Mar

29

1945

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the shoe capital of the

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Mar

19

1883

Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court

Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice despite opposition of civil rights organizations.

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Dec

6

1971

Mississippi Constitutional Convention began

Mississippi Constitutional Convention began systematic exclusion of Blacks from political life of South, August 12-November 1. The Mississippi Plan (Literacy and understanding tests) was later adopted with embellishments by other states: South Carolina (1895), Louisiana (1898), North Carolina

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Aug

12

1890

A Demonstration Led by NAACP

NAACP led protest demonstrations against the showing of the movie Birth of

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Dec

4

1915

Indictment in Atlanta Murders

Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicted Wayne B. Williams, a twenty-three-year-old photographer, for the murder of two of the twenty-eight Black youths killed in a series of slayings and disappearances in Atlanta. William denied the charges but was convicted in February, 1982.

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Jul

17

1981

Spingarn Medal Given to Carl Murphy

Carl Murphy, publisher of the Baltimore Afro-American, awarded Spingarn Medal for his contributions as a publisher and civil rights leader.

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Dec

5

1955

Alex Haley, renowned author, dies

American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in

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Feb

10

1992

Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting

Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting. One Black and one white were killed. Knights of White Camelia, a paramilitary white supremacist organization, founded in Louisiana.

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May

14

1867

First Black Woman to Head a Medical School in the

Barbara Ross-Lee, practicing family physician, Naval officer, and medical educator, assumed the position as dean of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing Michigan. This position made her the first Black woman to head a medical school in the United States.

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Aug

1

1993

Virginia's ethics are challenged

U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law banning inter-racial marriage was unconstitutional.

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Jun

12

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

Literary Critic and Editor

Death of Hoyt J. Fuller (57), literary critic and editor of First World magazine and former editor of Black World, in Atlanta.

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May

11

1981

Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the

Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the National Defense Program met with President Roosevelt. National Newspaper Publishers Association founded. Spingarn Medal presented to Dr. Louis T. Wright for his civil rights leadership and his contributions as a surgeon.

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Oct

25

1940

U.S. Government grants Atlanta $1 million

U.S. government granted Atlanta some $1 million to finance mental health and social programs in the wake of a mysterious series of abductions and slayings involving at least twenty two Black youths.

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Mar

5

1981

Born on this day: Charles Fuller

Playwright Charles Fuller was born in Philadelphia March 5, 1939. Fuller co-founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia, his hometown, in 1967. The Perfect Party (1969) was the first of Fullers plays to receive critical acclaim. Zooman and the Sign won an Obie Award in 1980. A Soldiers

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Mar

5

1939

George Alcorn patents fabrication of spectrometer

Patent # 4,618,380

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Oct

21

1986

Selma March begins

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads thousands of people on a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama to call for voting rights for African Americans.

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Mar

21

1965

Leander Jay Shaw, Jr., justice of the Florida State Supreme Court (1983), first

Leander Jay Shaw, Jr., justice of the Florida State Supreme Court (1983), first African American chief justice (1990) in Florida, the second African American chief justice in any state supreme court, born

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Sep

6

1930

Blacks Declared Non-Citizens of US

The Acting Commissioner of General Lands for the United States, J.S. Wilson, stated that blacks were not citizens of the United States, and therefore were not legally entitled to preempt public lands.

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Mar

7

1859

Fourteenth Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughterhouse cases began process of diluting the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court said the Fourteenth Amendment protected federal civil rights, not Civil rights heretofore belonging exclusively to the states.

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Apr

14

1873

Abolitionist Society Organized

First abolitionist society in United States organized in Philadelphia.

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Apr

14

1775

Virginia law declares that all non-Christians imported toits territory are to

Virginia law declares that all non-Christians imported to its territory are to be slaves for life; removes voting rights from recently freed slaves and indentured servants.

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