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By DAVID W. MARSHALL The Reconciled Body (TriceEdneyWire.com) – As a Republican presidential contender in 2016, Donald Trump knew something most of us may have totally missed. Most people took it as a joke [...]

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1884

Pulitzer Prize and Spingarn Medal given

Charles Gordone awarded Pulitzer Prize for his play, No Place To Go. Painter Jacob Lawrence awarded Spingarn Medal in tribute to the compelling power of his work which has opened to the world...a window on the Negros condition in the United States and in salute to his unswerving commitment to the

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26

1970

Anti-Lynching Bill proposed

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Jan

20

1773

Three organizations the Committee for Improving

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23

1911

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Oct

29

1923

Dorothy Height - Visionary

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12

1912

White conservatives suppressed Black vote

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Aug

6

1870

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

Col.B.O. Davis Jr.

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21

1945

Lady Bo birthday.

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Jul

14

1940

Theodore Flowers middleweight boxing champ

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26

1926

Saint Augustine

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Virginia Students Protest Segregated Schools

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23

1951

Denmark Vessey Hanged

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2

1822

Korematsu v. United States

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Dec

18

1944

Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club

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4

1927

Republican William McKinley

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3

1896

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16

1928

First black doctor in US

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Jan

0

2000

Progressive party convention

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Jul

23

1948

Did You Know That In...

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Jan

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1733

Forty-third Congress (1873-75) Convened

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1873

First Black Appointed to a Sub-Cabinet Post

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Nov

26

1911

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Jan

3

1947

Associates of Dr. Thomas Bray establish a school inGeorgia for the education o

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0

1751

Actor Billy Dee Williams born

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Apr

6

1937

Joe Frazier knocks out Jimmy Ellis

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Feb

16

1970

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7

1712

Mississippi Constitutional Convention began

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Aug

12

1890

Alex Haley, renowned author, dies

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