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Born: 5/4/1905 Ikorodu, NigeriaFolorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman who is the second richest African woman after Isabel Dos Santos and also the third richest woman of African descent in the world. She is a business tycoon involved in the fashion, oil and printing industries.She is the
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President John F Kennedy sends federal troops in integration of University of Mi
President John F Kennedy sends federal troops in integration of University of Mississippi, 1962
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29
1962
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Born: 0/29/938 Monrovia, LiberiaAfrica’s first female head of state won the 20 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting Liberian reconciliation and in atoning for Liberia’s history of civil war. She was re-elected for a second term the same year, reneging on an earlier promise to run for only
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Louise Bennett-Coverley
the Hon Louise Bennett-Coverley is regarded as the mother of storytelling in the Caribbean. a jamaican , Miss Lou, as she is affectionately known studied at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts as a result of British Council Scholarship. She had her own BBC Radio programme called Caribbean
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Sep
7
1919
Series of events in African American history
Between the years of 1500-1884, there was a series of events that happened in African American history. Between the 1500-1600s, there were slave revolts in the West Indies; from 1655-17-38, there was the war between the British and Maroons; in 1750, there was a British free trade in human flesh; in
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0
0
Ambassador
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
Colin Powell
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Florence Griffith Joyner, track legend born
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Dec
21
1959
Aretha Franklin the "Queen of Soul", singer born
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25
1942
Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska
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May
19
1925
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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2
1991
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Andrew F. Brimmer, economist and former Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania, is nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to serve as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System. This appointment represented the first black to serve in this capacity.
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Apr
13
1966
Andrew Brimmer
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Feb
26
1966
Slavery
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Barack Obama
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Barthelemy Boganda, President and foun
Barthelemy Boganda, President and founder of the Central African Republic, dies in a plane crash.
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Mar
29
1959
W.E.B. DuBois
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1998
Dr.C.Eric Lincoln
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Mar
27
1969
Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of President of the US
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Nov
3
1983
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
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1770
George W. Buckner
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Sep
10
1913
Nat Turner.
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Oct
30
1831
Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/activist
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May
18
1955
Progressive party convention
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Jul
23
1948
First Aboriginal Senator Chosen
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May
23
1971
Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the
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Feb
12
1865
Mass Murder or was it Suicide?
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Nov
18
1978
Dr. Harold D. West
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14
1952
President Johnson signed Economic Opportunity Act
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Aug
20
1964
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1992
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