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New York Draft Riots
On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment
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13
1863
Fairfax, Alfred (c.1843– c.1916)
Elected to the state House of Representatives in 1888, Alfred Fairfax was the first African American to serve in the Kansas legislature. A farmer and pastor, Fairfax represented the 58th District. During his single term in office (1889-1890), he served as chairman of the House Committee on
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Kansas State Colored Convention (1863)
The first Kansas State Colored Convention was a call from black Kansans to be granted a future of “Liberty, Justice and Equality” under the United States government.  The first Kansas Colored Convention was held in Leavenworth, Kansas on October 13-16, 1863 in the African Methodist
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13
1863
Two men wanted for questioning over fraud - Stabroek News
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is seeking the assistance of the public to locate two men who are wanted for questioning in ongoing fraud probes. The article Two men wanted for questioning over fraud appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Kenya
In July 2015, Barack Obama visited Kenya for the first time since he became president of the United States. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born in Nyangoma Kogelo and returned to Kenya in 1964, after he graduated from Harvard. Obama, Sr. lived in Nairobi at the time of his death in
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Gambia
On the morning of Dec. 30, 2014, an attempt was made to oust President Jammeh. Nine men attacked the presidential palace in Banjul. The coup attempt was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Lamin Sanneh. Sanneh once led the countrys State Guard, but had been dismissed and fled Gambia. The small group
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Senegal
When the economy continued to stagnate, and with it Senghors popularity, he resigned after 20 years at the helm in favor of his protégé, Abdou Diouf. Diouf, who led the country for the next 20 years, initiated further economic and political liberalization, including the sale of government companies
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African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites
African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites: By 1777, losses on the field of battle and rising White desertions had reduced the Continental Armys ranks of men. Northern colonies began to accept African Americans, free and slave, because these colonies could not fill their quotas with White man. In
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2002
Booker T. Washington's Visit to Spokane (1913)
In 1913 the famous African American activist and educator Booker T. Washington left Tuskegee, Alabama, to begin a speaking tour around the United States. The ultimate goal of this tour was to raise funds for the Tuskegee Institute in order to educate more young African Americans. Washington began
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(1862) William C. Nell Speaks At The Crispus Attucks Commemoration, Boston
March 5, 1862
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(1888) Frederick Douglass On Woman Suffrage
? F.A.Q. Frederick Douglass was one of the few men present at the pioneer woman’s rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. His support of women’s rights never wavered although in 1869 he publicly disagreed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony who called for women
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After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada
The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned?  In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African
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2 in court for alleged theft of booze to the tune of R6.8m | News24
Two men have appeared in the Jeppe Magistrate's Court for allegedly stealing alcohol worth R6.8 million, the Gauteng Hawks say.
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Congdon Street Baptist Church (1819- )
Congdon Street Baptist Church is the oldest African American church in Rhode Island. The church, located on College Hill, sprang from the effort of the black community in the city to provide a place for people of color to worship and a locale for a secular school for black children in the
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Mar
9
1819
Gov’t seeking to acquire 50 patrol vehicles for police - President - Stabroek News
The government is seeking to acquire 50 patrol vehicles for the police force. The article Gov’t seeking to acquire 50 patrol vehicles for police - President appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, (1889- )
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the oldest continuously operating black church in Portland, Oregon. It was founded by 20 people in 1889 in the home of Phillip Jenkins and organized under its current name.  Its first pastor was Reverend S.S. Freeman who was appointed later that
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The Deleted Passage of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY
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(1857) Charles Lenox Remond, “An Anti-Slavery Discourse”
By 1857 “Bleeding Kansas’ and the Dred Scott Decision had intensified sectional tensions over slavery and moved the nation closer to civil war. Against that backdrop, Charles Lenox Remond, on July 10, 1857, addressed the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society where he joined a growing chorus of
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Jul
10
1857
Kenya
As the 2013 presidential election approached, many feared a repeat of the deadly violence that plagued the disputed 2007 race and left about 1,300 dead. Those fears did not play out in the tight race between top contenders Prime Minister Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta, the richest man in the country and
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Kenya
In January 2012, four well-known Kenyans were ordered to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The four men were charged with crimes against humanity for their roles in the violence that erupted after the disputed 2007 elections. More than 300,000 people were forced to leave
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Men told wearing masks is the manly thing to do to safeguard health
Men must get serious about developing and engaging in healthy lifestyle practices to improve their physical and mental well-being during the novel coronavirus pandemic, says state minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Alando Terrelonge.
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Gen. A. J. Smith
Gen. A. J. Smith with fourteen thousand men, including a brigade of Black troops, defeated Nathan B. Forrest at Harrisburg, near Tupelo, Mississippi.
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15
1864
(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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Jul
16
1884
St. John A.M.E Church Topeka, Kansas (1868- )
St. John African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Topeka, Kansas was officially organized in 1877 when it was chartered by Reverend John M. Wilkerson of the Missouri African Methodist Episcopal Conference.  In 1868, nine years before the charter, however, early black settlers, many of whom
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First Blacks in America to graduate College
John Brown Russwurm is considered to be the first
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Aug
23
1826
Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech
To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther
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Mar
7
1965
1st Louisiana Native Guard, CSA (1861-1862)
The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was the first official black regiment in the Confederate Army. The Guard was formed when Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore accepted into the state militia a regiment of approximately 1,100 free African American men. When Governor Moore called for troops to
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La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)
The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual. Articles were written in both French, for the majority of African Americans in Louisiana, and English, in order
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(1833) Maria W. Stewart, “An Address at the African Masonic Hall”
On February 27, 1833 Maria W. Stewart gave this speech before a racially integrated audience at the African Masonic Hall in
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Feb
27
1833
6 factory workers shot during clash with security guards in North West | News24
It is alleged one of the protesters at the vegetable manufacturing factory, outside Brits in the North West, grabbed the firearm of a security guard monitoring the protest.
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