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The $18,000 Breast Biopsy: When Having Insurance Costs You a Bundle

By Lauren Sausser | Kaiser Health News | Word In Black (WIB) - When Dani Yuengling felt a lump in her right breast last summer, she tried to ignore it. […]

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4

1915

Spingarn Award: George Washington Carver

Spingarn Medal awarded to George Washington Carver, head of the department of research, Tuskegee Institute, for his pioneering work in agricultural chemistry.

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Jan

17

1923

President sent federal troops to South Carolina

President sent federal troops to South Carolina.

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Oct

26

1876

Jonathan Jasper Wright

Jonathan Jasper Wright was the first Black state supreme court justice. He resigned on this day from the state supreme court in South Carolina after the overthrow of the Reconstruction government, and died in obscurity of tuberculosis.

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Dec

1

1877

Reconstruction of the South began with the

Reconstruction of the South began with the registering of Black and white voters in the South. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan ordered registration to begin in Louisiana on May 1 and to continue until June 30. Registration began in Arkansas in May. Other states followed in June and July. By the end of

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May

1

1867

Perkins, Marvin (1963– )

Marvin Perkins is an accomplished recording vocal artist, a sought-after public speaker, and a leader in the effort to correct misunderstanding and incorrect assumptions about blacks, especially in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

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On this day, Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun

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Mar

11

1959

Padmore, George (1901-1959)

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Nov

1

1890

Renowned attorney Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander dies in Philadelphia

Renowned attorney Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander dies in Philadelphia

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Nov

6

1989

South Carolina Republicans carried election with

South Carolina Republicans carried election with reduced margin. Republican tickets was composed of four whites and four Blacks: R.H. Gleaves, lieutenant governor; Francis L. Cardozo, treasurer; Henry E. Hayne, secretary, of state; H.W. Purvis, adjutant general.

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Oct

10

1874

Brisby, William H. (1831-1916)

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Mississippi Constitutional Convention began

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Aug

12

1890

Young, Coleman A. (1918-1997)

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Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist, President of California State University, Fullerton, the first African American to hold such as position in the CSU system, born.

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Jan

17

1924

Congress cracks down on civil rights for blacks

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Jun

25

1868

Williams, Camilla (1919-2012)

Professional opera singer Camilla Williams was born October 18, 1919 in Danville, Virginia to Fannie Carey Williams and Cornelius Booker Williams. The youngest of four siblings, Williams began singing at a young age and was performing at her local church by age eight. At age 12, she began taking

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29

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first black to run for Parliament

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1999

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Jul

31

1874

Students Seize college building

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Mar

19

1968

Civil Rights Timeline

The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned

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Dec

18

1859

Ku Klux Klan trials began

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Jun

20

1871

Richard Nixon signed bill extending Voting Rights

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Jun

22

1970

Forty-eighth Congress (1883-85) convened, Two

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Dec

3

1883

Constitution Approved in South Carolina

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Apr

14

1868

First Blacks elected to the House of

First Blacks elected to the House of Representatives. Black Republicans won three of the four congressional seats in South Carolina: Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge and Robert B. Elliott. Rainey was elected to an unexpired term in the Forty-first Congress and was the first Black seated in the

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Oct

19

1870

Anti-Amalgamation Law

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