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Le fantôme de l’émir Abdelkader, héros de la résistance algérienne à la conquête française, promet de s’inviter ces prochains mois dans l’agenda diplomatique. La commission mixte d’historiens français et algériens, qui a tenu mercredi 22 novembre, à Constantine, sa troisième réunion depuis sa
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Source: Haiti24 – Nouvelles d’Haïti | Politique, affaires courantes, sport et autres rubriques
(1955) Martin Luther King Jr., “The Montgomery Bus Boycott”
The Montgomery Bus Boycott speech reprinted below is one of the first major addresses of Dr. Martin Luther King.   Dr. King spoke to nearly 5,000 people at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery on December 5, 1955, just four days after Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish
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Dec
5
1955
Egyptian architecture
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Wilder, Lawrence Douglas (1931- )
Born in Richmond, Virginia on January 17, 1931, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was the first African American to be elected governor in the United States of America. For four years Wilder served as the governor of Virginia (1990-1994).  Currently he is serving as the mayor of
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Jan
17
1931
State attorneys slam PNP’s objection to extension of DPP’s tenure
Government lawyers have labelled the reasons proffered by the People’s National Party (PNP) in its objection to the recent amendments to the Jamaican Constitution, allowing Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn to remain in office...
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Newsom and DeSantis duke it out in 'Red vs Blue State' debate
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparred over every issue brought up during their debate Thursday night hosted by Sean Hannity on Fox News. DeSantis is fighting to gain ground against former President Donald Trump in the race to be the Republican nominee for president i
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(1963) John F. Kennedy, “We Face A Moral Crisis: The Civil Rights Message to Congress, 1963”
On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent his civil right message to Congress urging it to pass a civil rights act.  The message was immediately prompted by the action of Governor George Wallace of Alabama in physically blocking the entrance of two African American students whom a federal
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11
1963
(1860) Frederick Douglass, “the Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery?”
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Rainey, Joseph Hayne (1832-1887)
In 1870 Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and take his seat.  Others were elected earlier but were not seated.  Rainey was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, on June 21, 1832. His parents had been slaves but
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Aug
2
1887
Rwanda
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28
1962
Clarence Thomas
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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8
1879
Miriam Benjamin
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Black ThenFlash Black Photo: African American Women on a Cruise
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Powell, William B., Jr. (1834-1915)
William B. Powell Jr., one of the first African American physicians to receive a contract as a surgeon with the Union Army, was free born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1834.  His father, William Powell Sr., also in the medical practice, was African American, and his mother was Native
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Marian Anderson
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1947
(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”
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5
1852
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(1837) Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”
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Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
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Pilgrim Baptist Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1863- )
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Nov
15
1866
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
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13
1862
David Robinson
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