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Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Are All Black Women for the First Time
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Women's Anti-Pass Law Campaigns in South Africa
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Payne, Daniel Alexander (1811-1893)
Born on February 24, 1811 to free Black parents London and Martha Payne in Charleston, South Carolina, Daniel Alexander Payne would become a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, President of Wilberforce University, abolitionist, educator, and historian. When Payne was four his
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
In 1943, Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), wrote an open letter in the Pittsburgh Courier to the presidents of our nation’s private black colleges urging them to pool their small monies and make a united appeal to the national conscience. His
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Moms 4 Housing Organizer Carroll Fife Is Redefining What Wealth Distribution Looks Like for Black People Globally
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Gist, Carole Ann-Marie (1969- )
Carole Anne-Marie Gist, the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title, was born on May 8, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.  Gist, the daughter of Joan Gist and David Turner, is of African American and Cherokee heritage.  Her parents divorced when she was a young child.  Gist graduated from
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(1866) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “We Are All Bound Up Together”
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(1895) Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women,”
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Dykes, Eva Beatrice (1893-1986)
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