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The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the lik
The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. Washington.
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Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
Apr
7
1940
Two units of the Ku Klux Klan and eleven individuals are ordered to pay $ 1 mill
Two units of the Ku Klux Klan and eleven individuals are ordered to pay $ 1 million to African Americans who were attacked during a brotherhood rally in Forsythe County, GA
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Oct
25
1988
The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.
In 1983, Doctors Elmer and Joanne Martin opened a wax museum, the first of its kind in the nation, as well as, Baltimore, Maryland of African Americans leaders that were made of
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Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
Jan
0
1983
Cellular Phone Invented
Henry Sampson, an african-american, invented the cellular phone.
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Jul
6
1971
Ophrah's On!
Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.
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Feb
8
1986
Slavery
Africans accompany Spanish explorer Hernando de Sotos on a expedition and settles among Native Americans in the territory of present-day Alabama.
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Jan
0
1539
Thomas L. Jennings
Thomas L. Jennings - Mr. Jennings was the first African-American to have patented an invention. In 821, Mr. Jennings was issued a patent for a dry-cleaning process known as dry scouring. An activist for the rights of African Americans, he served as Assistant Secretary of the first annual Convention
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Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Mar
3
1821
Birmingham Blacks / Jim Crow Bus Laws
Birmingham Blacks began mass defiance of Jim Crow bus laws.
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Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Dec
26
1956
Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopa
Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the U.S. , dies.
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Sponsored by New York University
Feb
13
1818
Paul Bustill Robeson
Paul Bustill Robeson was born in
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Apr
9
1898
Wash., D.C. Slave Emancipation and Reparations
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came
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Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Apr
16
1862
Integration Attempt Causes An Uproar
Rev. F.L. Shuttlesworth mobbed when he attempted to enroll his daughters in white Birmingham school.
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Sep
9
1957
First African American Before US Supreme Court
John Sweat Rock (1825-1866), a noted Boston lawyer, became in 1865 the first African-American to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black person to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Sponsored by Eastern Bank
Feb
1
1865
Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and
Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and Vice-presidential candidate of Progressive party, arrested in Birmingham for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for Negroes.
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Sponsored by BARBinc
May
1
1948
Nella Larsen is born
Nella Larsen is born in Chicago, Ill. She will write two important novels of the Harlem Renaissance, Quicksand and
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Apr
13
1891
Elijah Muhammad, born
Elijah Muhummad was born Elijah Poole in
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Oct
10
1897
Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and
Bus with first group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned by segregationists outside Anniston, Alabama. Group was attacked in Anniston and Birmingham.
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May
14
1961
Andrew Brimmer appointed to Fed. Reserve Bd.
Andrew Brimmer becomes the first African-American governor of the Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Johnson
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Feb
10
1966
Roy deCarava, the first African American photographer to be awarded aGuggenhei
Roy deCarava, the first African American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, is born
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Dec
9
1919
February 11, Robert Weaver sworn in as
February 11, Robert Weaver sworn in as administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, highest federal post to date by a Black American.
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Feb
11
1961
Confederate Flag Protest
In Montgomery, Alabama, Thomas Reed, president of the Alabama chapter of the NAACP, was arrested after he and 11 others attempted to strike a Confederate flag flying atop the state capitol building.
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Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
Feb
3
1988
The National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists3000 members strong with 74 affiliated professional chapters and 51 student chapters, is the largest media organization for people of color in the world. Founded December 12, 1975, our mission is to strengthen ties among African-American
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
Dec
12
1975
Anti-lynching Bill Proposed
African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Jan
20
1900
Danville, VA coup and massacre
A political coup and a race riot. On November 3, white conservatives in Danville, Virginia, seized control of the local government, racially integrated and popularly elected, killing four African-Americans in the process.
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Nov
3
1883
George H. White
George H. White, the only African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, (1896) and the first to introduce an antilynching bill, born. He also founded Whitesboro, N,J, as a haven for African Americans escaping Southern racism.
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Dec
18
1852
Frances Watkins Harper, writer born
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Sep
24
1825
James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born
James Cameron
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Aug
7
1930
Howard Beach Incident
White teens in Howard Beach chased Michael Griffith, an African-American youth, onto a freeway where he was hit by a motorist. Griffith died from his injuries setting off a wave of protests and racial tensions in New York.
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Jan
7
1986
Barbara Jordan: Elected to Congress
When Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 she became the first African-American woman to represent a previously Confederate state in Congress.
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Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
Nov
7
1972
Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his painting Under the Oaks at
Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his painting Under the Oaks at the American Centennial Exposition, in Philadelphia. The award will cause controversy among whites who think African Americans incapable of artistic excellence.
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Sep
27
1876
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