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Harlem
Harlem, residential and business section of upper Manhattan, New York City, bounded roughly by 110th St., the East River and Harlem River, 168th St., Amsterdam Ave., and Morningside Park. The Dutch settlement of Nieuw Haarlem was established by Peter Stuyvesant in 1658. To the W of Harlem, near
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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
Burton, Phillip (1915-1995)
Philip Burton was a Seattle lawyer for more than 40 years, a voice for the disadvantaged, and a fighter for reforms to end discrimination in education, housing and employment.  His legal actions led to the desegregation of Seattle Public Schools.  Fighting for civil rights was his lifelong activity
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Garrison, William Lloyd
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805–79, American abolitionist, b. Newburyport, Mass. He supplemented his limited schooling with newspaper work and in 1829 went to Baltimore to aid Benjamin Lundy in publishing the Genius of Universal Emancipation. This led (1830) to his imprisonment for seven weeks
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Jul
4
1854
Herndon, Wanda J. (1952- )
In 1978, Wanda J. Herndon launched her successful career in corporate America when she became the first African American exempt professional and external hire in the Communicator Development Program of The Dow Chemical Company.  Later, she made significant contributions at other major
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Jul
31
1952
Johnson, Robert Louis (1946 - )
Robert Louis Johnson, founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Black Entertainment Television (BET), is also the majority owner of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Bobcats of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the first African American billionaire. He was born in
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City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989)
? APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 87-998. Argued October 5, 1988 Decided January 23, 1989 Appellant city adopted a Minority Business Utilization Plan (Plan) requiring prime contractors awarded city construction contracts to subcontract at least 30%
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(2015) President Barack Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney
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Portrait of Black Chicago
The captions are John Whites own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several
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Feb
25
1975
(1996) California Proposition 209
This initiative measure is submitted to the people in accordance with the provisions of Article II, Section 8 of the
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Angolan Civil War (1975-2002)
The Angolan Civil War, beginning at the time of the countrys independence from Portugal in 1975, was a 27-year struggle involving the deaths of over 500,000 soldiers and civilians.  Initiated at the height of the Cold War, pro- and anti-communist forces in Angola set the stage for a proxy fight
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Apr
25
1974
Death of Prince Hall
Death of Prince Hall, activist and Masonic leader, in
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Dec
4
1807
Wells, Nathaniel (1779 – 1852)
Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England. Wells was born on September 10, 1779 on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean to William
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May
13
1852
Collapse of stock market and the beginning of the
Collapse of stock market and the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1937, 26 per cent of Black males were unemployed.
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Oct
29
1929
Brazil
Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is the continents largest nation. It extends 2,965 mi (4,772 km) north-south, 2,691 mi (4,331 km) east-west, and borders every nation on the continent except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil may be divided into the Brazilian Highlands, or plateau, in the
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Federal Marshalls Escort Meredith To University
Large force of federal marshals escorted James H. Meredith to the campus of the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy federalized the Mississippi National Guard and urged Mississippians to accept the orders of the court in a radio-TV address.
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Sep
30
1962
(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action.  In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th
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Egypt
Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan, and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. It is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas. Egypt is divided into two unequal, extremely arid regions by the
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Bureau of Census reports
Bureau of Census report said Black unemployment averaged 9.9 per cent in 1971, compared with a 5.4 per cent rate for whites. The report also said that 31.8 per cent of all Black families were headed by a woman, and increase from the 28 per cent reported in 1970.
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Jul
13
1972
Hall, Katie Beatrice (1938-2012)
Democratic representative Katie Hall was elected to the United States Congress in 1983. Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi in 1938, she attended Mississippi Valley State University and Indiana University before teaching in the public schools of Gary Indiana. Hall was elected to the
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Feb
20
2012
(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation"
W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of his life was a staunch integrationist.  In 1934 however he advanced the argument that since integration would not happen in the nation any time soon, African Americans had to
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Jun
26
1934
Bermuda
Ethnicity/race: black African 58%, white and other
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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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Seminole Indian force defeated by American troops
Seminole Indian force defeated by American troops at Battle of Okeechobee. Black chief John Horse shared command with Alligator Sam Jones and Wild Cat.
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Dec
25
1837
Ghana
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Ethiopia
National name: Ityopiya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik
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NAACP annual report
NAACP annual report said the unemployment of urban Blacks in 1971 was worse than at anytime since the great depression of the thirties. The report also said that more school desegregation occurred in 1971 than in any other year since the 1954 school decision.
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Jun
29
1972
Rick James
Name at birth: James
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John Brown was an abolitionist whomtook direct action to free slaves by force.
John Brown was an abolitionist whom took direct action to free slaves by force. He led a raid on Harpers Ferry, in mid-October in 1859, being convicted of murder, treason and conspiracy. But his way of freeing slaves was the most dramatic way of abolitionist impact, ever seen.
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Oct
15
1859
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