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African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites: By 1777, losses on the field of battle and rising White desertions had reduced the Continental Armys ranks of men. Northern colonies began to accept African Americans, free and slave, because these colonies could not fill their quotas with White man. In
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L’affaire Boulos/Ona/ULCC invite la population à regarder de plus près les missions de l’Office national d’assurance-vieillesse (Ona) et la gestion qu’il fait des cotisations des travailleurs et des patrons du secteur privé au fonds de retraite collectif. L’Unité de lutte contre la corruption
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Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian (1898-1975) - In 1935, Dr. Julian synthesized the drug physotigmine which is used today in the treatment of glaucoma. He later headed the soybean research department of the Glidden Company and then formed Julian Laboratories in order to specialize in the production of sterols
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Jan
0
1935
Democrats Face Uphill Battle To Close Guantanamo Bay Prison
A group of House Democrats are trying a new way to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison nearly 20 years after it was opened by then-President George W. Bush: defunding it. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has so far remained mum on the push, which is included in a new $706 billion defense spending
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DeKalb CEO Thurmond Extends Water Disconnection Moratorium to Sept. 1 | Atlanta Daily World
DeKalb CEO Thurmond Extends Water Disconnection Moratorium to Sept. 1 DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has extended the five-year-old water service disconnection moratorium for residential water accounts to Sept. 1, 2021. The moratorium was set to expire on July 1. “While the county has addressed
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Our View: Contract vote rightly places Kern in the bull’s-eye
… year, a local group of African American leaders, calling themselves Kern Community … to hire sufficient numbers of African Americans. In response, Kern supervisors recently …
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In order to encourage the slave trade, the Virginia Assembly offers exemptions
In order to encourage the slave trade, the Virginia Assembly offers exemptions from local duties to Dutch ships bringing in Africans.
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Jan
0
1661
Johnson, Jack (1878-1946)
Jack Johnson, the first African American and first Texan to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world, was born the second of six children to Henry and Tiny Johnson in Galveston on March 31, 1878.  His parents were former slaves.  To help support his family, Jack Johnson left school in
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Larry Doby became manager of the Chicago White Sox
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30
1978
John Mercer Langston, considered the first African
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2
1855
Ashley, Maurice (1966- )
Maurice Ashley, the first African American chess grandmaster, was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica on March 6, 1966. At age 12, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where Ashley began to develop an interest in chess. Although he spent several hours a day playing and studying the game, he did not play
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6
1966
Continental Congress approved Washington's order
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16
1776
Black Slave traders
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Jan
0
1700
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Oct
17
1956
Cameroon: CPDM - Revamping Basic Organs At Stake
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Mob attacked Freedom Riders in Montgomery
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20
1961
Lawrence Douglas Wilder assumes title as governor
In Richmond, Virginia former Lt. Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder took office as the first popularly elected African American governor of an American state.
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Jan
14
1990
Executive Order 9808
In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil
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Dec
5
1946
Physician Bernard A. Harris, Jr is born
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26
1956
La Cour des comptes devrait auditer l’Ona chaque année - Haiti News
L’affaire Boulos/Ona/ULCC invite la population à regarder de plus près les missions de l’Office national d’assurance-vieillesse (Ona) et la gestion qu’il fait des cotisations des travailleurs et des patrons du secteur privé au fonds de retraite collectif. L’Unité de lutte contre la corruption
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Executive Order 11246
Executive Order 11246 enforces affirmative action for the first time
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Sep
24
1965
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Aug
14
1914
Enolia Pettigen McMillan born
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20
1904
Blacks Denied The Right To Enlist
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Nov
12
1775
President Truman created Committee on Civil Rights
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Dec
5
1946
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Oct
15
1974
Prosper, Pierre-Richard (1963– )
Pierre-Richard Prosper is an attorney and diplomat who turned his passion for the rule of law into a global pursuit for justice for victims of the worst crimes of humanity, and accountability for the perpetrators of those
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11
2001
CJIA to get $513m office building - Stabroek News
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Ecuador to pardon thousands of inmates after deadly prison riot
Ecuador plans to pardon and commute thousands of sentences in order to free up space in the country's prisons following a deadly riot at a penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil this week.
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