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Rudy Giuliani used the very voting method he blasted to overturn election

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Alan Dupree Wheat, the first black Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, was born in San Antonio, Texas, on October 16, 1951. He attended schools in Wichita, Kansas, and in Seville, Spain, before graduating from Airline High School in Bossier City, Louisiana, in 1968. In 1972 Wheat received

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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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19

1925

Clarke, Yvette Diane (1964– )

Yvette Diane Clarke won her first political office when she was elected a member of the New York City Council representing part of Brooklyn in 2001. Clarke succeeded her mother, former City Councilmember, Dr. Una S.T. Clarke, making them the first mother-daughter succession in the history of the

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21

1964

Coleman Young was elected mayor of Detroit, becoming one of the first two Black

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1973

Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington was a popular singer from the 1950s who sang jazz, blues, R&B and pop. Her birth name was Ruth Lee Jones. She was born on August 29, 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and moved to Chicago at a very young age. Her first exposure to music stemmed from the church, where she learned to

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1924

(1966) Stokely Carmichael, “Black Power”

Soon after he was named chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael began to tout the slogan and philosophy of Black Power. In the speech below he explains Black Power to an audience at the University of

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Actor and activist, Paul Robeson, portrays Othello for the 296th time at New Yor

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15

1943

Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr.

Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr., 1932–, African-American leader, clergyman, and public official, b. New Orleans. He was a leading civil-rights activist in the 1960s and, as a Democrat from Georgia, served (1973–77) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Under President Carter , Young was permanent

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Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) (1986- )

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Nov

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1977

Death of Ralph J. Bunche

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Dec

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1971

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May

25

1937

Black Orphanage Destroyed by Angry Whites

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1863

Marian Anderson

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28

1936

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1922

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Mar

29

1945

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Oct

29

1945

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19

1857

White, Lois Jean(1938- )

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Mar

21

1938

(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”

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1830

Jackson-Lee, Sheila (1950 - )

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1950

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