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Opothleyohola's Exodus to Kansas (Nov. 1861-Jan. 1862)
After a faction of the Creek tribe had negotiated and signed a treaty with the Confederacy in July 1861, a group of Upper Creek chiefs led by Opothleyohola repudiated the treaty and declared their neutrality.  Opothleyohola’s followers and their families gathered together on
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Black Belt (U.S. region)
The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States. The term originally described the prairies and dark fertile soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi.[1] Because this area in the 19th century was historically developed for cotton plantations based on enslaved African-American
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Courts order University to admit a black
Maryland Court of Appeals ordered the University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray.
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1935
Morgan State College is established in Baltimore, Md.
Morgan State College is established in Baltimore, Md.
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20
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Omega Psi Phi
Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ) is an international fraternity with over 750 undergraduate and graduate chapters. The fraternity was founded on November 17, 1911 by three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, and their faculty adviser, Dr. Ernest Everett Just. Omega
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Your weather update: Severe cold front heading towards Western Cape, residents warned
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Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople
In the article below Jill L. Newmark, exhibition specialist in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, describes thefirst hospital sponsored by the United States government specifically to meet the health care
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Fire guts Samsung office in Abuja, official speaks
The fire, which started at the building house Samsung office in Abuja, continued to rage for over six hours, from 7:38 p.m. on Monday (6 November) until 01:37 a.m. on Tuesday (7 November), before it was finally brought under control. The post Fire guts Samsung office in Abuja, official speaks a
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Sue K. Brown (1948- )
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2006
Black inventor and scientist,
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Johnson C. Smith University [Charlotte] (1867- )
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Ambassador Elizabeth Davenport McKune was born on November 15, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. She became a Foreign Service officer in 1973 and specialized in the Middle East. McKune is the daughter of West Point graduate Colonel Clarence M. Davenport, Jr. and distinguished National Institute of Mental
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1
1998
Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail announces Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Plan | Afro
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Man drives his car into Seattle protest for George Floyd, shoots man
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