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THE MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE (MCRI), PROPOSAL 2, AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION
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(1808) An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into any Port or Place Within the Jurisdiction of the United States, From an
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Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of Journal of Negro History, Woodson has been cited
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Mass Murder or was it Suicide?
More than nine hundred persons, most of them Black Americans, died in mass murder and suicide pact in Jonestown, Guyana.
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1978
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton , (born Feb. 27, 1893, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Dec. 24, 1953, New Haven, Conn.), American anthropologist who had a marked influence on the development of cultural
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Black supremacy
Black supremacy or black supremacism is a racial supremacist belief that black people are superior to people of other races. The term has been used by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an American legal advocacy organisation, to describe several fringe religious groups in the United
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Race riot, Cleveland. Eleven persons, including three policemen, were killed and National Guard was mobilized. Riot was sparked by alleged ambush of police detail by Black radicals.
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23
1968
U.S. Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands, consisting of nine main islands and some 75 islets, were explored by Columbus in 1493. They were originally inhabited by the Carib Indians. Since 1666, England has held six of the main islands; the remaining three (St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John), as well as about 50 of the
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Klansmen fired
Klansmen fired on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., and killed five persons.
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Whereas, it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political; and it
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The Fight For a Ride
Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on streetcars. On May 1, the Charleston City Railway Company adopted a resolution guaranteeing the right of all persons to ride in streetcars.
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1861
Hutchins, Hutchen R. (1903-1990)
Hutchen R. Hutchins, born on June 30, 1903, was part of a small but active cadre of African American Communists operating in the Pacific Northwest during the 1930s. Originally from the East Coast, Hutchins attended the Lenin School in Moscow in the late 1920s. In 1932 he was sent to Seattle by the
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The assault of the Louisiana Colored Volunteers on the Confederate breastworks at Port Hudson was the first major battle in which Negro Troops took part.
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Black Codes Issued in S.C.
South Carolina issues one of the first set of black codes to regulate the relations of persons of color. Among the codes included those of illegal interracial marriages, master apprentice relations and service contracts.
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Dec
21
1865
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The 1st Louisiana Native Guard (USA) was one of the first all-black regiments to fight in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Guard originated in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1862, during its occupation by Union forces. On September 27, 1862, Major General Benjamin  F. Butler, the Union
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Pressure From Congress
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Martin Luther King Jr's Death
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