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Birth of William Seymour
William Seymour was born in Centerville, Louisiana. He is credited as being the inspirational force behind the birth of Pentecostalism in the United States.
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May
2
1870
Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting
Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting. One Black and one white were killed. Knights of White Camelia, a paramilitary white supremacist organization, founded in Louisiana.
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May
14
1867
The Notting Hill Riots (1958)
Amidst racial intolerance and competition over resources, the white working class of the Notting Hill area, London, UK, launched an attack against members of the black community on August the 30, 1958. Forced to arm themselves in defence, the confrontation lasted
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(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”
Schoolteacher, dentist, physician, lawyer, graduate of the American Medical College in Philadelphia, member of the Massachusetts bar, proficient in Greek and Latin, Dr. John S. Rock was unequivocally one of the most distinguished African American leaders to emerge in the United States during the
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Charles Deslandes lead Louisana slave revolt
Charles Deslandes leads slave revolt in LouisianaJanuary 8, 1811
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Jan
8
1811
Robert Smalls steals Confederate ship
It has just gotten dark on the evening of May 12, 1862. General Roswell Ripley and the other white confederate officers of the
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May
12
1862
Christopher Columbus
Following the introduction of cattle into the Caribbean in 1493, during Christopher Columbus’s second voyage, cattle ranching proliferated along a series of frontiers across the grasslands of North and South America. While historians have recognized that Africans and their descendants were involved
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Congress cracks down on civil rights for blacks
Congress readmitted North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida on condition that the constitutions of said states shall never be amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens or the United States of the right to vote in said states who are entitled
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Jun
25
1868
Louisiana governor signed public accommodations
Louisiana governor signed public accommodations law.
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Feb
23
1869
1st Governor
P.B.S Pinchback became the 1st African American governor of an American state, Louisiana
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Dec
11
1872
Dawson, Horace G. (1926- )
Horace G. Dawson, Jr. was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Botswana by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.  After his confirmation by the U.S. Senate he served in that post until 1983.  Dawson was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 30, 1926.  He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where he earned
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Jan
14
2004
(2015) President Barack Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney
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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
Florida Freedom Fighters
On this day, Florida NAACP president Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriet were killed when a bomb tore through their home in Mims, Florida. No one has ever been convicted of the crimes.
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Dec
25
1951
Davy, Gloria (1931-2012)
Gloria Davy, a rich-voiced (lirico-spinto) soprano who “sang for the sheer joy of singing” had a four decade career as a concert singer. Early in her career she replaced Leontyne Price as Bess in the 1954 international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1958 she broke color barriers when she
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Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity founded
At Indiana University, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was founded by Elder W. Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, John M. Lee, Harvey T. Asher, Marcus P. Blakemore, Guy L. Grant, Paul Caine, George W. Edmonds, Ezra D. Alexander and Edward
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Jan
5
1911
Lydia Holmes patents wood toys
Lydia M. Holmes St. Augustine, Florida Patent No. 2,529,692 on November 14, 1950 are the plans for several easily assembled wooden pull toys including a bird, a truck and dog.
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Nov
14
1950
Oberlin College (1833- )
Oberlin College which was named Oberlin Collegiate Institute until 1850, is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.   In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay Sipherd and Philo P. Stewart founded the institution as a college preparatory institute to promote Christian values.  Oberlins
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Rebellion After Suspicious Death During Arrest
In Tampa,Florida, a rebellion followed the suspicious death of Edgar Allen Price, a police suspect who died during an arrest. Police contended that Price hit his head on the ground several times.
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Feb
2
1989
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton is a religious leader and political activist. He was born on October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father left the family and Sharpton was raised by his mother. They had to move to the public housing projects, where his mother worked as a maid and supported the family on her
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Oct
3
1954
Padmore, George (1901-1959)
A journalist, radical activist, and theoretician, George Padmore did more than perhaps any other single individual to shape the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth
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Fort Negro
Garcia And Fort Negro: After the War of 1812, over three hundred African Americans occupied an abandoned British fort on the banks of the Apalachicola River in what is now Florida. Known as Fort Negro, it was headed by an African American man named Garcia. The heavily armed fort became a symbol of
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Jul
27
1816
Negritude Movement
The literary movement, Negritude, was born out of the Paris intellectual environment of 1930s and 1940s. It is a product of black writers joining together through the French language to assert their cultural
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James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born
James Cameron
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Aug
7
1930
African History: Biographies
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Grant Chapel AME Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1883- )
GrantChapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was the first black church in NewMexico and was organized during the state’s territorial period.   Although New Mexico Territory had a few slavesbefore the Civil War, African Americans began arriving in the region insignificant numbers after
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Anti-Slavery Law
The provisional governor of Florida abolishes slavery by proclamation.
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Aug
3
1865
Underground Railroad, The (1820-1861)
The Underground Railroad was established to aid enslaved people in their escape to freedom.  The railroad was comprised of dozens of secret routes and safe houses originating in the slaveholding states and extending all the way to the Canadian border, the only area where fugitives could be assured
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