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Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity founded
At Indiana University, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was founded by Elder W. Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, John M. Lee, Harvey T. Asher, Marcus P. Blakemore, Guy L. Grant, Paul Caine, George W. Edmonds, Ezra D. Alexander and Edward
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Jan
5
1911
African Methodist Episcopal Conference
The African Methodist Zion and Asbury African Methodist churches, both of New York City, started their own separate African Methodist Episcopal Conference, still within the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Aug
11
1820
Ethiopia
National name: Ityopiya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik
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Nat Turner Executed.
Nat Turner was captured almost two months after the uprising in Southampton county, Virginia in 1831. He had dug a hole and remained there for weeks at a time, hiding from his would-be captures. On the morning of October 30th, Turner left his place of hiding in search of food and provisions. Soon
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Nov
11
1831
Abolitionist Society Organized
First abolitionist society in United States organized in Philadelphia.
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Apr
14
1775
Ethiopia defeats Italy at Battle of Adowa
The Battle of Adwa and the Victory of Adwa Centenary Medal
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Mar
2
1896
Denmark Vessey Hanged
In the same year of Gabriel Prossers death, 1800, a slave named Denmark Vesey gained his freedom in
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Jul
2
1822
Juba, South Sudan (1922- )
Juba is one of the newest capitals in the world.  It became the capital of South Sudan when that nation was declared independent on July 9, 2011. Juba, located on the White Nile River, is the largest city in South Sudan and in 2011 it had an estimated population of 372,410 people. Since then
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9
2011
Gabriel Prosser
Gabriel Prosser was born sometime in 1775 in Virginia. The Haitian Revolution of the times did not go unnoticed. In the plantation houses it was
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Jan
0
1775
Black Anti-Slavery Crusaders
There were a host of free Blacks who struck out against slavery. Many of these were
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(1865) Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”
On Saturday March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated and began his second term as President.  His address to the audience of thousands of spectators was brief, one of the shortest inaugural addresses on record.  The Civil War was drawing to a close as Union Armies were bearing down
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Carson, Johnnie (1943- )
Johnnie Carson is a retired diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Uganda (1991-1994), U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (1995-1997), and U.S. Ambassador to Kenya (1999-2003). Carson was born on April 7, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. After attending public schools in Chicago, Carson received
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May
7
2009
Fuller, Margaret
Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer, lecturer, and public intellectual, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities in the American literary circles of her day. A precocious child, she was forced by her father, a Massachusetts
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Educator Joseph Charles Price was born
Few Individuals have made the impact on their times or left the legacy to their beneficiaries as did Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone
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Feb
10
1854
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter and actress who has been making hit records for almost 25 years. She was born on January 11, 1971 in the Bronx, New York to Cora and Thomas Blige. She grew up in a very neglected and disastrous neighborhood and her childhood was marked by
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Jan
11
1971
Burkina Faso
Slightly larger than Colorado, Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Its neighbors are Côte dIvoire, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, and Ghana. The country consists of extensive plains, low hills, high savannas, and a desert area in the
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Ebony Magazine
Ebony, a pictorial news magazine published by Chicago, Illinois-based Johnson Publishing Company, first appeared in November 1945. Created by John H. Johnson, who modeled his publication after Life magazine, Ebony celebrated African American life and culture by depicting the achievements of black
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Zambia
On Oct. 28, 2014, President Sata died while being treated in London for an undisclosed illness. Rumors about him being seriously ill had been going on for weeks, especially after he missed a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Vice President Guy Scott became acting president until an
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Toni Morrison
Born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison is an American author, editor and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature for being an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of
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Feb
18
1931
Islam
Islam ĭsläm´, ĭs´läm [key], [Arab.,=submission to God], world religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad. Founded in the 7th cent., Islam is the youngest of the three monotheistic world religions (with Judaism and Christianity). An adherent to Islam is a Muslim [Arab.,=one who
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Ghana became an independent state
March 6th, 1957, the Gold Coast gained its independence from Great
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Mar
6
1957
Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the following article University of Oregon historian Carlos Aguirre describes the self-taught poet, writer, and folklorist Nicomedes Santa Cruz, one of the understudied black intellectual leaders in Peru and Latin
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Feb
5
1992
Countee Cullen, born
Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist
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May
30
1903
First Black to acheive that rank in the US Army, Col Charles Young, dies in Lago
First Black to acheive that rank in the US Army, Col Charles Young, dies in Lagos, Nigeria, 1922
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Jan
8
1922
Nigeria proclaimed independent
Nigeria proclaimed independent.
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Oct
1
1960
Henry McNeal Turner Born
Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age
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Feb
1
1834
Book of the Dead
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O’Neal, Adrienne S. (1954- )
In 2011, Adrienne S. O’Neal, career Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde). O’Neal was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 to Samuel and Vernese Boulware ONeal. Her
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NAACP report
NAACP report said 1946 was one of the grimmest years in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The report deplored reports of blow torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and racial extermination and said
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Jan
3
1947
(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”
Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans.  By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa.   One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister
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Jul
4
1830
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