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1852
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0
2001
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Aug
21
1936
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25
1990
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1969
Eleanor Holmes
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13
1937
More than one hundred delegates from six states
More than one hundred delegates from six states held a Black convention in Philadelphia. John Mercer Langston, one of the first Blacks to win public office, elected clerk of Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1856 he was elected clerk of the township of Russia, near Oberlin. In 1857 he was
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Oct
16
1855
Renowned attorney Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander dies in Philadelphia
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6
1989
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1
1875
First Black elected to Congress
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Nov
3
1868
Congress passed Confiscation Act, authorizing the
Congress passed Confiscation Act, authorizing the appropriation of the property, including slaves, of rebel slaveholders.
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Aug
6
1854
Parren James Mitchell
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29
1922
Congressman William Gray
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14
1989
Gordon Parks' film The Learning Tree is registered in the National Film Registry
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1989
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14
1775
Racial Confrontation
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Aug
29
1970
Josiah T. Walls
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Dec
30
1842
National Congress of Racial Equality organized
National Congress of Racial Equality organized.
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Jun
20
1943
P.B.S. Pinchback
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1873
1st Black chariman of P.C.G.E.P.
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1957
Jurist Mifflin Gibbs born
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Apr
17
1823
Early Sermon for Abolition
On this date in 1791, Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745-1801) preached a strong anti-slavery sermon before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and for the Relief of Persons unlawfully holden in Bondage. Edwards was a Congregationalist minister, like his more famous father, and later
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Sep
15
1791
Constitution Approved in South Carolina
South Carolina voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228, and elected state officers, including the first Black cabinet officer, Francis L. Cardozo, secretary of state. New constitution required integrated education and contained a strong bill of rights section: Distinctions on account of race
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14
1868
Government: Washington state.
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2001
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1985
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May
24
1864
Guion S. Bluford, Jr---Astronaut (birthday)
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Nov
22
1942
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment
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1866
Absalom Jones and his followers dedicated African
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1794
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