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It was sudden and unexpected for who in Liberia had ever imagined, at least for once, that the learned and influential lawyer noted for providing legal services to large corporations would have been slapped with sanctions by the United States Treasury Department under the Magnitsky Act. US officials had maintained that Cllr Varney Sherman had […]

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DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)

A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871. In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator. DePriest created his own

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12

1951

Townsend, Willard S. (1895-1957)

African American labor leader Willard S. Townsend was born on December 4, 1895, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Willard and Cora Elizabeth Townsend. In 1938 he organized railway workers of several Chicago, Illinois stations to form the International Brotherhood of Redcaps and remained the union’s president

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3

1957

Spingarn Award: Ken B. Clark

Kenneth B. Clark, psychologist and educator, awarded Spingarn Medal for pioneering studies that influenced the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation.

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Dec

15

1961

Thurgood Marshall, dies

First Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, dies, 1993

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Jan

24

1993

(1957) Dwight Eisenhower, “Address on Little Rock"

The Little Rock Crisis erupted in September 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orval M. Faubus used state National Guard troops to prevent nine African American students from attending the then all-white Central High School. On September 20, Federal Judge Ronald Davis ordered Governor Faubus to remove

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Sep

24

1957

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

Virginia's ethics are challenged

U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law banning inter-racial marriage was unconstitutional.

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Jun

12

1967

Jordan, June (1936-2002)

June Meyer Jordan, writer, editor, poet, educator, environmental and social activist, was the only child of Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maude Fischer Jordan who were Jamaican immigrants. June was born in Harlem on July 9, 1936. June’s father worked as a night shift postal clerk and her mother

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9

1936

Minister To Liberia

Atty. William T. Francis named minister to Liberia.

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9

1927

Housing discrimination banned

Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.

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18

1968

George Crum was born as George Speck in 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York, the son of a Huron Native-American mother and an African-American father who worked as a jockey. He worked for a while as a mountain guide and trapper in the Adirondack Mountains in New

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Aug

21

2013

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

Civil Rights Bill enacted by Congress. Bill gave B

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Mar

1

1875

Freed American slaves established Liberia, 1824

Freed American slaves established Liberia, 1824

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Aug

15

1824

Liberian Emigrants

The ship Azor left Charleston with 206 Black emigrants bound for Liberia.

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Apr

21

1878

African-American History Quiz

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An outbreak of Ebola hit Guinea in March 2014 and spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. By September, is estimated to have killed about 430 people in Guinea, and there were nearly 650 suspected and confirmed cases of it in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In late August, the

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Bus Boycott Ended

When the bus boycott ended on this say, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were national heros, and the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional.

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Dec

21

1956

U.S. Supreme Court in landmark Brown v. Board of

U.S. Supreme Court in landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The unanimous decision was read by Chief Justice Earl B. Warren.

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May

17

1954

National name: Soomaaliya

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Thurgood Marshall

Born: 7/2/908 Baltimore, MarylandDied: /24/993 Bethesda, MarylandThurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 967 until October 99. Marshall was the Courts 96th justice and its first African-American justice.Business

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U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Weber v. Kaiser

U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation that employers and unions can establish voluntary programs, including the use of quotas, to aid minorities in employment.

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Jun

27

1979

1st Black Supreme Court Justice

Joseph W. Hatchett sworn in as first Black supreme court justice in the South in the twentieth century.

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Sep

2

1975

Mae Jemison is an American Physician and a former NASA Astronaut. Jemison is the first African American woman to travel in

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17

1956

Clifton Wharton is sworn in as ambassador to Norway. Clifton Wharton was the 1st Black person to earn a PhD in economics from University of Chicago in as well as the first Black president of Michigan State, predominantly White university.

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9

1961

Anthony, Susan Brownell

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President: Ian Khama

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Murray, George Washington (1853–1926)

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