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Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price has achieved heights in the music world that many aspire to but that very few reach. As a singer she became famous all around the world. Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927. As a youth, she sang in church choirs. Later, she attended Central State
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Feb
10
1927
Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founds Chicago
Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
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Jun
6
1790
Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard born
Sugar Ray Leonard
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May
17
1956
First Black Appointed to a Sub-Cabinet Post
William Henry Lewis was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States by President William Howard Taft, making him the first Black appointed to a sub-cabinet post.
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Nov
26
1911
Alabama Educational Television Commission
Alabama Educational Television Commission has its application for license renewal denied by the Federal Communications Commission because of racial discrimination against African Americans in employment and programming.
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Jan
8
1975
Robert Tools
Robert Tools becomes the first recipient in the world of the Abiocor, self contained artificial heart at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Jul
2
2001
Asa Philip Randolph issued a call for 100,000
Asa Philip Randolph issued a call for 100,000 Blacks to march on Washington, D.C., to protest discrimination in the armed forces and war industries.
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May
1
1941
Shooting on bus, a result to a fight
Black private and white military policeman shot to death on bus in North Carolina during fight between Black and white soldiers. This was the first of a series of serious racial incidents (between Black and white soldiers and Black soldiers and white civilians) which continued throughout the war.
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Aug
6
1941
Poet Jupiter Hammon born
Birthday of Jupiter Hammon, a writer and self-educated Calvinist, who was born a slave. Hammon is believed to be the first black poet published in the United States.
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Oct
17
1720
Maryann Bishop Coffey
Maryann Bishop Coffey is named the first woman and the first African American co-chair of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
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Apr
26
1991
Curtis Mayfield, singer born
Curtis Mayfield was born on the 3rd of june 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, where he quickly
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Jun
3
1942
Pan-African Congress Meeting
Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met a Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen from the United States and fourteen from Africa form sixteen countries and colonies. Blaise Diagne of Senegal was elected president and Du Bois was named secretary.
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Feb
19
1919
White supremacist John King sentenced to death
White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black
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Feb
25
1999
Ghana became an independent state
March 6th, 1957, the Gold Coast gained its independence from Great
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Mar
6
1957
United States population: 131,669,275
United States population: 131,669,275. Black population: 12,865,518 (9.8 per cent). Richard Wrights Native Son published.
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Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
Feb
28
1940
Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the familys eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earls civil
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May
19
1925
Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson
Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York
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Jul
2
1961
British ask for Ashanti Golden Stool
One inspiration of liberation can be seen in Queen Yaa Asantewa of the Ashanti. Ironically enough the Ashanti are included
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Mar
28
1900
New York City Council passes bill prohibiting racial discrimination
New York City Council passed bill prohibiting racial discrimination in city-assisted housing developments.
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Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
Feb
16
1951
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, (born Cassius Clay) stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the US Army during the Vietnam War(Clay v- United States). He is asked How can you be a pacifist opposed to the idea of
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Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Jun
28
1970
Rev. George Leile
Rev. George Leile was the first African American to be ordained a Baptist minister in America. He was an early pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Silver Bluf, South Carolina. Curiously, he supported the British during the American Revolutionary war because of the Britishs promise to free
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Jan
0
1770
Pres. Kennedy barred racial discrimination
President Kennedy issued executive order barring racial discrimination in federally financed housing.
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Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Nov
20
1962
Queen Nzingha Joins the Ancestors
Queen Nzingha, amazon queen of matamba west africa, joins the ancestors on this day. Nzingha was a warrior queen who waged war again Europeans. Her formation of strategic alliances and fighting prowess urged other great african leaders totake a stand against the colonialism/imperialistic regimes of
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Dec
17
1663
Maj
Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves contraband of war.
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May
24
1861
Jan Earnest Matzeliger
Jan Earnest Matzeliger was born on September 15, 1852 in
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Sep
15
1852
Ernest Everett Just
Born: 8/14/1883 Charleston, South CarolinaDied: 10/27/1941 Washington, D.C., United StatesErnest Everett Just was a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer. Justs primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of
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Samuel L. Gravely is born
Samuel Gravely was appointed captain of the Navy Destroyer Escort, U.S.S. Falgout, the first African American to command a United States warship. He later received the rand of Rear Admiral, a first for an African American navyman.
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Jun
4
1922
COINTELPRO Memorandum
A memorandum sent to field offices of the FBI set goals for what was termed as a new counterintelligence program against African American Nationalist groups. The objective was to block attempts by targeted groups to coalesce, grow and exist. The agencey believed unity was the first step toward
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Mar
3
1968
Death of Prince Hall
Death of Prince Hall, activist and Masonic leader, in
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Dec
4
1807
George Alcorn patents fabrication of spectrometer
Patent # 4,618,380
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Oct
21
1986
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