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Wheat, Alan Dupree (1951 - )
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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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932, and they remained married until his death in 1977. They had no children. Raymond Parks was born in 1903… Her hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama was home to the Tuskegee Institute, which was led for many years by Booker T. Washington. He died in
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White, V. Ethel Willis (1920-2003)
Theendowment named in honor of V Ethel Willis White is unusual in that the person honoredwas not a wealthy woman in the usual sense of the word.  Instead V Ethel Willis White’s wealth derivedfrom her inspiration to
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Flake, Green (1828-1903)
Born enslaved on January 6, 1828 on the Jordan Flake Plantation in Anson County, North Carolina, Green Flake at the age of ten was given as a wedding gift to James Madison Flake, Jordan’s son who married Agnes Love in 1838 in Anson County, North Carolina.  The couple moved shortly thereafter to
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Hunt, William Henry (1863-1951)
William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six posing as a twenty-year-old, a lie he kept to his grave. Although June 29 might have been his actual day
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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  His acceptance speech appears
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Dec
10
1964
James, Charles A. (1922- )
Ambassador Charles A. James was born in 1922 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he attended public schools.  After high school, James enrolled at Westchester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania (now Westchester University) where he studied for one year before
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16
1976
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was mainly a second baseman, though he also played at first and third… The Brooklyn Dodgers moved west and became the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1957 season… Jackie Robinson attended UCLA, where he lettered in four sports: track, baseball, football and basketball… He served in
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Perkins, Marvin (1963– )
Marvin Perkins is an accomplished recording vocal artist, a sought-after public speaker, and a leader in the effort to correct misunderstanding and incorrect assumptions about blacks, especially in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
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DMX
Earl Simmons better known as DMX or Dark Man X was born to the Simmons family on December 18, 1970. He lived in New York as a child but his childhood was far from secure. Much of his youth was spent in group homes because of an abusive relationship with his parents. He is now the father of twelve
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1970
Did You Know That In...
1777 - New Jersey opens public schools for black children.
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1777
Suit accusing New York City Board of Education of
Suit accusing New York City Board of Education of using racial quotas filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of Black and Puerto Rican children.
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Jan
16
1962
Roudanez, Louis Charles (1823-1890)
Physician and newspaper publisher, Louis Charles Roudanez was born free in June of 1823 in Saint James Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of a French merchant named Louis Roudanez and a black woman named Aimée Potens. Though his baptismal record registers him as white, Roudanez identified as
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Nkom, Alice (1945- )
Alice Nkom broke barriers for women by becoming the first female barrister in her country of Cameroon. She is also well known among Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) activists worldwide because of her legal advocacy for gay
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Stewart, Bennett McVey (1912–1988)
Born in Huntsville, Alabama, on the 6th of August, 1912, Illinois Congressman Bennett McVey Stewart was the son of Bennett Stewart and Cathleen Jones. He attended local public schools in Huntsville and Birmingham before entering Miles College in Birmingham. There he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
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Prince, Lucy Terry (c. 1732-1821)
In 1760 the Princes moved to Guilford, Vermont, where Lucy Terry Prince gained local renown as a storyteller and orator while educating her six children.  A courageous, eloquent activist, Prince worked hard not only to survive economically but also to protect her family from racist harassment and
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Wilson, August (1945-2005)
The fourth of seven children in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, April 27, 1945 to an African American mother and a German immigrant father. By the time he was five, his parents divorced. His mother remarried in the late 1950s and the family moved to the
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(1993) William J. Clinton, “The Freedom to Die"
On November 13, 1993, President Bill Clinton traveled to Memphis to address 5,000 African American ministers at the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ.  Speaking from the pulpit where in 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his last sermon, Clinton used the occasion to urge the
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13
1993
METCO
METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity), is Americas longest running voluntary school desegregation
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Dec
13
1960
Eric Holder
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The Abolition Society of Wilmington, DE conducts a school for black children.
The Abolition Society of Wilmington, DE conducts a school for black children.
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1801
Menard, John Willis (1838-1893)
John Willis Menard, abolitionist, author, journalist and politician, was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia, Illinois, to French Creole parents. He was the first African American elected to Congress, but was not seated after a dispute over the election results. Menard attended Iberia College, an
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Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was
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Fort Valley State University (1939- )
Fort Valley State University, in Fort Valley, Georgia, is a four year liberal arts land grant school that is part of the University System of Georgia. It was formed in 1939 when Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School merged with the State Teachers and Agricultural College of
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12
1996
(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”
On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Comedian, actor, and philanthropist Bill Cosby was asked to deliver the main address. Cosby
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May
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2004
Derek Walcott
Derek Alton Walcott is a Nobel Prize winning poet and playwright. He was born in January 1930 in Saint Lucia, West Indies. He is of African and European descent. His father died while his mother was pregnant with him and his twin brother Roderick. He has an older sister named
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Virginia legislature enacts a law declaring that thestatus of the mother deter
Virginia legislature enacts a law declaring that the status of the mother determines whether children are slaves or free; Christians who fornicate with blacks are to pay double fines.
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(1884) William H. Crogman, “Negro Education: Its Helps and Hindrances”
? William Henry Crogman, a native of the West Indian island of St. Martin, was educated at Pierce Academy in Massachusetts immediately after the Civil War. In 1868 he was named to the English faculty of newly organized Claflin College in South Carolina. By 1870 Crogman returned to college, ente
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1884
Chica da Silva (1731/5-1796)
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, better known as Chica da Silva (or spelled Xica da Silva), was a Brazilian woman born into slavery, who went on to gain her freedom and become a powerful and well-known member of Brazilian
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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007
In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was
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