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Luter, Fred Jr. (1956- )
Fred Luter Jr., the first African American First Vice President and President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), was born on November 11, 1956.  Luter and his four siblings were raised in New Orleans, Louisiana’s Lower 9th Ward by his mother, Viola Brooks, who worked as a seamstress and
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Black Soldiers in the Civil War | National Archives
The issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off a rush by free black men to enlist in U.S. military units. They wereturned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred Negroes from bearing arms for the
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1862
Black conductors
According to a 2004 article in the Guardian, black conductors are rare in the classical music world and even in symphony orchestras it is unusual to see more than one or two black musicians. Canadian-born black conductor Kwamé Ryan, who studied music at Cambridge University and in Germany, made his
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Jammeh, Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junking (1965- )
Yahya Jammeh is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the second president of Gambia from 1994 to 2017. Jammeh ruled Gambia for twenty-three years after rising to power as a young army officer in a bloodless military coup in 1994 that ousted Dawda Jawara who had been the first
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Inspirational Jomo Kenyatta Quotes
It Africans were left in peace on their own lands, Europeans would have to offer them the benefits of white civilization in real earnest before they could obtain the African labour which they want so much. They would have to offer the African a way of life which was really superior to the one his
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Carter, Nell Hardy (1948-2003)
Nell Hardy Carter was an American actress and vocalist who enjoyed a twenty-five year career in film, stage, television, and the recording industry. Born as Nell Ruth Hardy on September 13, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama, she and her eight siblings were raised a low-income neighborhood by their
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(1841) Frederick Douglass, “The Church and Prejudice"
Frederick Douglass would eventually become one of the most skilled and powerful orators of his day.  In 1841, three years after he escaped slavery and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 34-year-old Douglass gave a brief speech on a situation he had not anticipated, racial prejudice in Northern
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(2017) President Barack Obama's Farewell Address
On January 10, 2017, Barack Obama delivered his last farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. His speech is appears
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2017
The Power of the Press: African-American News Publications in the Jim Crow Era
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Bass, Steven
Steve Bass is a native of Seattle.  He graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1969 and from the University of Washington in 1973.  He is a partner with the national accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP.  His clients include many types of nonprofit organizations, including social welfare
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Dede, Edmund (1827-1903)
Musician and composer Edmund Dede was born on November 20, 1827 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His parents were free Creoles of color who moved to New Orleans from the French West Indies around 1809. Dede took his first music lessons from his father who was a bandmaster for a local military
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Civil Rights Act of 1960
The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub.L. 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) was a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someones attempt to register to vote. It was designed to deal with
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President of South Africa and political activist, Nelson Mandela was born, 1918
President of South Africa and political activist, Nelson Mandela was born, 1918
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19
1918
Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
Many Europeans have long exhibited a fascination with the African continent.  However their knowledge of Africa was often incorrect or incomplete.  In the following article University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the Italian idea of Africa during the 15th and 16th
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Meharry Medical College (1876- )
Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee, is the second oldest medical school for African Americans in the nation.   The college was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Freedman’s Aid Society in 1876 when Samuel Meharry, a Scots-Irish immigrant salt trader
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Rwanda
Rwanda continued fighting against the Democratic Republic of the Congo throughout its four-year civil war. Finally, in July 2002, the two countries signed a peace accord: Rwanda promised to withdraw its 35,000 troops from the Congolese border; Congo in turn agreed to disarm the thousands of Hutu
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2014
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit , (born 1847, Paarl, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died May 29, 1911, Cape Province, South Africa), South African pastor and political leader who, as the founder of the Afrikaner Bond (“Afrikaner League”) political party, was an early leader of
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1911
Barber-Scotia College [Concord] (1867-)
Barber-Scotia College is a coed liberal arts school founded by the Presbyterian Church in July 1867 by Reverend Luke Dorland as Scotia Seminary. Reverend Dorland was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church to create an institution to train black women in programs of elementary, secondary and normal
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2
1954
Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople
In the article below Jill L. Newmark, exhibition specialist in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, describes thefirst hospital sponsored by the United States government specifically to meet the health care
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4 Pan-African Leaders You Should Know
John B. Russwurm was an abolitionist and co-founder of the first newspaper published by African-Americans, Freedoms
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Dertigers
The supreme event in Afrikaans literature was the appearance of a group of talented poets, the Dertigers (“Poets of the ’30s”), begun by W.E.G. Louw with Die ryke dwaas (1934; “The Rich Fool”). This sensitive poet, with his searing conflicts between God and
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Black History Month 2014
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Madame C.J. Walker
Sarah Breedlove also known as Madam C.J. Walker was born in Delta, Louisana on  the 23rd December 1867. Under the company she founded, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, she launched a line of hair products and beauty creams that propelled her to success. She was well known as
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Windhoek, Namibia (1840- )
Windhoek, also known by its more traditional names—|Ai||Gams (in the Khoekhoe language) and Otjiomuise or Otjoherero, all of which mean “place by streams”—is the capital and largest city of Namibia, as well as its cultural and economic center.  Though likely named for the mountain
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African-American Organizations of the Progressive Era
The National Association of Colored Women was established in July of 1896. African-American writer and suffragette  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin believed that the best way to respond to racist and sexist attacks in the media was through social-political activism. Arguing that developing positive
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Taylor, Marshall W. (1878-1932)
He was a black pioneer in sports long before Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and even the legendary Jack Johnson. He did not play baseball as Robinson did, nor was he a pugilist as were Johnson and Louis, and although he participated in a sport where the main objective was speed, he was
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The Black Presence in Pre-20th Century Europe: A Hidden History
In the In  the following account, Professor Allison Blakely of BostonUniversity describes the presence of blacks in Early Modern Europe. Hisarticle reminds us that persons of African ancestry resided acrossEurope. Their numbers ranged from a few hundred scattered acrossGermany, Scandinavia and
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Myrick, Bismarck (1940- )
Bismarck Myrick is a retired United States Ambassador to Lesotho from 1995 to 1998 and the Republic of Liberia from 1999 to 2002. Originally from Portsmouth, Virginia, Myrick has held multiple positions with the U.S. government over a number of
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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967
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