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Lelia Smith Foley becomes the first African American woman to be elected mayor of a U.S. city (Taft, OK)
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Apr
16
1973
Moneta Sleet becomes the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his
Moneta Sleet becomes the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. and her daughter at her husbands funeral
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May
5
1969
the Bronze Muse
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Feb
22
1911
The movie, Green Pastures, premieres in New York's
The movie, Green Pastures, premieres in New Yorks Radio City Music Hall.
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Jul
16
1936
"Separate but Egual"
Massachusetts Supreme Court rejected the argument of Charles Sumner in the Boston school integration suit and established the separate but equal precedent.
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Mar
31
1850
Race riot in Houston
Race riot, Houston, between soldiers of Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment and white citizens. Two Blacks and eleven whites killed. Martial law declared.
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Aug
23
1917
Republican William McKinley defeated William Bryan
Republican William McKinley defeated William Bryan in presidential elections.
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Nov
6
1900
Death of Elijah Muhammad
Death of Elijah Muhammad (77), leader of the Nation of Islam, in Chicago. He was succeeded by his son, Wallace D. Muhammad.
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Feb
25
1975
Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated at the first African American auxiliary bi
Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated at the first African American auxiliary bishop in the U.S. He is assigned to Washington, D.C.
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Sep
12
1974
The Fight For Meredith's Education
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Board of Higher Education of Mississippi to admit Meredith to the university or be held in contempt.
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Sep
24
1962
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar born in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar is one of the most popular African-American poets of all time. His dialect poemsand humor in his works were often under appreciated due to the English standardswhich were set at the time. His book was finally givenattention in
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Jun
27
1872
Ann Thompson
Ann Thompson was the first African-American woman prosecutor.
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Jan
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0
Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American
Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American Navy nurses to serve active duty in WW II receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps.
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Mar
8
1945
James Weldon Johnson, born
Author, lyricist, poet and educator James Weldon Johnson, also the first Black executive of the NAACP, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Jun
17
1871
1787 Georgia's House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin,William
1787 Georgias House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgias commissioners to the Philadelphia constitutional convention.
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Feb
10
1787
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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Jan
20
1900
Bo Diddley is born.
Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and
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Dec
30
1928
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the worlds first open-heart surgery on a young man named James Cornish. James was rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago with a stab wound.
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Jul
10
1893
William A. Harper
William A. Harper, student of Henry O. Tanner at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most gifted African American artist of the early 20th century, born
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Dec
27
1873
Republican Benjamin Harrison elected president
Republican Benjamin Harrison elected president.
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Nov
6
1888
Cowboy Willie "Bill" Pickett dies
World famous African American cowboy Willie Bill Pickett died in Ponca, Oklahoma, hospital of injuries sustained after he was kicked in the head by a horse on the Millers Brothers Fabulous 101 Ranch.
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Apr
2
1932
Killings in Civil Rights demonstrations
Jonathan M. Daniels, white Episcopal seminary student from Massachusetts, killed and Richard F. Morrisroe, white Roman Catholic priest from Chicago, seriously wounded by shotgun blasts fired by white special deputy sheriff in Hayneville, Alabama. They were participating in civil rights
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Aug
12
1965
Debbye Turner is crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win
Debbye Turner is crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win the crown since the inception of the pageant in 1921.
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Sep
16
1989
African American Captures British General
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Aug
3
2002
Rev.Philip A. Potter
Rev. Philip A. Potter, a Black Methodist minister from Dominica, named general secretary of the World Council of Churches, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.
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Aug
16
1972
Wilson Riles elected superintendent of Public
Wilson Riles elected superintendent of Public instruction in California. Richard Austin elected secretary of state in Michigan.
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Nov
3
1970
Federal Marshalls Escort Meredith To University
Large force of federal marshals escorted James H. Meredith to the campus of the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy federalized the Mississippi National Guard and urged Mississippians to accept the orders of the court in a radio-TV address.
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Sep
30
1962
Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
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Jul
16
1862
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, (born Cassius Clay) stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the US Army during the Vietnam War(Clay v- United States). He is asked How can you be a pacifist opposed to the idea of
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Jun
28
1970
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
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1919
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