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The Race for the Right Vaccine is On | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Beyond the Rhetoric Harry C. Alford & Kay DeBow According to Alex Carcidi, financial blogger at Motley Fool, (TM Carcidi): “With the coronavirus pandemic gripping the world, governments every- where are desperate to speed up the discovery of a vaccine. In the U.S., since May, this dire need has been addressed by a vaccine accelerator […]

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In the same year of Gabriel Prossers death, 1800, a slave named Denmark Vesey gained his freedom in

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1822

Congress forbade Union officers/soldiers

Congress forbade Union officers and soldiers to aid in the capture and return of fugitive slaves, ending what one historian called the military slave hunt.

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Mar

13

1862

Rebellion Collapsed/People Killed in the Struggles

White Democrats seized statehouse in Louisiana coup detat. President Grant ordered the revolutionaries to disperse, and the rebellion collapsed. Twenty-seven persons (sixteen whites and eleven Blacks) were killed in battles between Democrats and Republicans.

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Sep

14

1874

Former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ronald H Brown was appoint

Former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ronald H Brown was appointed head of the Department of Commerce by President-elect Bill Clinton, 1993

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Aug

1

1993

Maya Angelou is asked to compose a poem for the inauguration of PresidentBill

Maya Angelou is asked to compose a poem for the inauguration of President Bill Clinton

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Dec

2

1992

President George Bush nominated conservative black Clarence Thomas to replace Th

President George Bush nominated conservative black Clarence Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall.

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Jul

2

1991

Congress passes a bill authorizing the creation of 500,000Black Revolutionary

Congress passes a bill authorizing the creation of 500,000 Black Revolutionary War Patriots Commemorative coins.

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Oct

4

1996

Barbara Jordan dies

Barbara Charline Jordan was born February 21, 1936, in Houston, Texas. Jordan was elected to the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first female African-American to do so. In 1972, she was elected president pro-tempore of the Texas Senate - the first African-American elected to preside over

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Jan

17

1996

Congress Adopts 15th Amendmant

Congress adopted the 15th constitutional amendment, making it illegal for the US or any single government to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

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Feb

27

1869

Lower house of Georgia legislature

Lower house of Georgia legislature, ruling that Blacks were ineligible to hold office, expelled twenty-eight representatives. Ten days later the senate expelled three Blacks. Congress refused to admit the state until the legislature seated the Black representatives.

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Sep

3

1868

Dr. Jerome H. Holland

Dr. Jerome H. Holland was elected to the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange on this day.

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Mar

2

1972

Blacks fought in the battles of 1812

Blacks fought in the land and water battles of the War of 1812. A large number of Black sailors fought with Matthew Perry and Isaac Chauncey in the battles on the upper lakes and were particularly effective at the Battle of Lake Erie. Two battalions of Black soldiers were with Andrew Jackson when

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Dec

18

1814

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress from Illinois First Congressional District (Chicago). He was the first congressman from the North and the first Black in Congress since the departure of George H. White in 1901.

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Nov

6

1928

Presidential Assistant E. Frederic Morrow born

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Apr

20

1909

Congress helped Blacks in the military

Congress passed bill equalizing pay, arms, equipment and medical services of Black troops.

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Jun

15

1864

Reverse Policy of Distributuing land to freedmen

President Andrew Johnson moved to reverse policy of distributing abandoned land to freedmen.

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Aug

5

1864

Robert Weaver, born on this day, beacme the first Black appointed to a presidential cabinet when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to head the newly created Departmentof Housing and Urban Development.

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Dec

29

1907

Antislavery petition from free Blacks

Antislavery petition from free Blacks of Philadelphia presented to Congress.

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Jan

2

1800

William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor

William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to hold a Cabinet level position

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Jan

14

1975

Florence Griffith Joyner, track legend born

Delorez Florence Griffith Joyner

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Dec

21

1959

Martin R. Delany

Martin R. Delany published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, it was the first major statement of the Black nationalist position. Delany said, The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any

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Mar

20

1852

Compensation For States

President Lincoln, in message to Congress, recommended the use of federal bonds to provide compensation for states that abolished slavery before 1900.

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Dec

1

1862

Congress passed the first Enforcement Act which

Congress passed the first Enforcement Act which provided stiff penalties for public officials and private citizens who deprived citizens of the suffrage and civil rights. The measure authorized the use of the U.S. Army to protect the rights of Blacks.

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May

31

1870

Hugh Davis, a Virginian is sentenced to be whipped before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of Christians, by defiling his body in lying with a Negro.

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Jan

0

1630

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm, a New York Democrat, is the 1st African American woman elected to Congress.

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Nov

5

1974

Laurent Kabilia becomes new President of Zaire and renames itthe Democratic Re

Laurent Kabilia becomes new President of Zaire and renames it the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The country was previously under the 37 year rule of Dictator Mobutu SeSE sEKO. cONGO HAS DEMOCRACY.

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May

17

1997

Pentagon report said Blacks constituted 11 per

Pentagon report said Blacks constituted 11 per cent of U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia. The report said 12.5 per cent of all soldiers killed in Vietnam since 1961 were Black.

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May

20

1971

Liberian President Killed in Coup

Liberian President William R. Tolbert Jr. and twenty-seven others were killed in coup detat by army enlisted men led by master Sergeant Samuel Doe.

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Apr

12

1980

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup a Violinist, married Anne Hampton on Christmas Day in 1828. In January of 1841 he was offered a job as a part-time violinist with a traveling band. This offer turned out to be a trick, where Solomon was sold into

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1841

Joseph Searles admitted NYSEX

The New York Stock Exchange admits its first Black member, Joseph Searles.

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13

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