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Arthur Wergs Mitchell, 1st African American to be elected to congress,

is born in Lafayette, Ala.

Source: Blackfacts.com

The Enduring Emancipation: From President Lincoln to President Obama

For a nation at war over slavery, President Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation was inevitable. Here, we examine Lincolns challenges to introduce a document that became a cornerstone event for communities of all races for generations to

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Source: Smithsonian Black History Teaching Resources

Feb

5

2009

Congress Sends Juneteenth Legislation to Trump | Dallas Weekly

June 19, 1863 Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society enforce the Emancipation order

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Discovering The Civil War with Ken Burns

Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker extraordinaire who brought the Civil War to life for so many of us, joined the National Archives in opening a press preview of our latest exhibit: Discovering the Civil

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Source: Black History and Culture

U.S. National Archives Unearths Original Juneteenth Order

General Order No. 3 doesn't use the exalted language of some other documents central to American

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Source: Stories About Black History

Burton, Walter Moses (1829?-1913)

Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton was also a State Senator in

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Source: Black Past

Feb

20

1874

List of African-American United States Senators

The United States Senate has had ten African-American elected or appointed office holders.[1] The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. The US Census Bureau defines African

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Source: ThoughtCo

African-American music

African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans. Their origins are in musical forms that arose out of the historical condition of slavery that characterized the lives of African Americans prior to the American

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Oct

28

2009

New York Military Museum Marks Black History Month Saturday

The History of the United States Colored Troops will be the subject of talk by historian

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Why Byron Allen’s Comcast Settlement Win Is an “L” for Black America – Voice and Viewpoint

Earlier this year, Allen’s legal challenge reached the United States Supreme Court to determine whether Allen could proceed with his civil action under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

African American History and Women Timeline 1870-1899

[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1870-1899 • 15th Amendment to the US Constitution gave the right to vote without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude -- but the Amendment did not apply to African American women (or any other women) • Susan McKinney Stewart,

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Source: ThoughtCo

First Black Newspaper

Boston's first Black newspaper of record before the Civil War was the Emancipator and Free American, founded in 1842 and closed in 1844.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Voices of the Civil War Episode 19: "Douglass and Lincoln"

By August 1863, African American soldiers within the Union Army had proven themselves in battles such as Port Hudson, Millikens Bend and Fort Wagner. On August 9, 1863, abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass met with President Abraham Lincoln to discuss his concerns in regards to the fair

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Aug

9

1863

Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

Sergeant William Carney of New Bedford, a member of the famed 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War, was the first African-American awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at the battle of Fort Wagner in July 1863. The U.S. flag he saved during the battle still hangs in the

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Cheatham, Henry Plummer (1857-1935)

Born into slavery in Henderson, North Carolina, Henry Cheatham was the child of an enslaved domestic worker about who little is known. An adolescent after the American Civil War, Cheatham benefited from country’s short lived commitment to provide educational opportunities to all children. He

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Source: Black Past

John P. Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was white and his mother was a black slave. John was sold to a slave agent in 1835 and then sold to a slave caravan which took him to Mobile, Alabama where he was purchased by a physician. Working as a house servant, Parker learned to

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Source: Black History Resources

Nov

26

2012

Siegel studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After a brief stint as an actor, he joined Warner Brothers studios near Hollywood as an assistant film librarian. He later worked as an editor before joining the studio’s montage department, where he

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Source: Brittanica

John Henry Murphy Sr.

John Henry Murphy Sr. (December 25, 1840 – April 5, 1922) was an African-American newspaper publisher based in

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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dec

25

1840

Morris, Robert, Sr. (1823–1882)

Robert Morris became one of the first black lawyers in United States after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Morris was born in Salem, Massachusetts on June 8, 1823. At an early age, Morris had some formal education at Master Dodge’s School in Salem. With the agreement of his

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Source: Black Past

Feb

15

1851

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

The Dred Scott v. Sandford case (1857) was the most important slavery-related decision in the United States Supreme Court’s history. Coming on the eve of the Civil War, and seven years after the Missouri Compromise of 1850, the decision affected the national political scene, impacted the rights of

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Source: Black Past

Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser's Civil War Espionage

In the following account historian and novelist Lois Leveen describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, the account of a black woman who served as a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil

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Source: Black Past

Arthur W. Mitchell

Born: 12/22/1883 Lafayette, AlabamaDied: 5/9/1968 Petersburg, VirginiaArthur W. Mitchell was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Mitchell was the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat.Mitchell was elected to the House of Representatives in 1934, defeating

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Lady Liberty: Emancipation or Immigration? Learning Black History Year-Round

First imagined by the French historian Édouard de Laboulaye in 1865, Lady Liberty was created from a desire to represent an alliance between America and

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 6: "Overwhelming Numbers and Resources"

At the time of Civil War, 18.9 million Americans lived in the North versus 8 million Americans in the South. These overwhelming numbers along with other resources had a critical impact upon the course and outcome of the war. Why was the Confederate army, representing territories with less than

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Voices of the Civil War Episode 17: "Combahee River Raid"

In Episode 17, Combahee River Raid, we look at the events of June 2, 1863, when Union Colonel James Montgomery led the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery up the Combahee River, to raid Confederate outposts and rice plantations. Harriet Tubman

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Jun

2

1863

Voices of the Civil War Episode 13: "54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment"

Voices of the Civil War Episode 13: 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment - YouTube

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Howard University

Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with high research activity and is accredited by the Middle States

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Mar

2

1867

Boseman, Benjamin Anthony (1840-1881)

Benjamin A. Boseman, physician, politician, and postmaster, was free born in New York in 1840 to Benjamin A. and Annaretta Boseman. He was the oldest of five children, two girls and three boys. Boseman grew up in Troy, New York where his father served as a steward on the steamboat Empire in the

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Source: Black Past

Feb

23

1881

‘Donald Trump is More Focused on Saving Statues of Slaveholders & Confederate Generals than Protecting Americans from the Coronavirus’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ (CA-43) statement on Donald Trump’s negligence in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to protestors calling for the removal of statues of Confederate generals and

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Sarah Parker Remond, African American Abolitionist

Known for: African American abolitionist, women’s rights advocate

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Source: ThoughtCo

55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1863-1865)

The 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment made up of men who wanted to enter the already full 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 54th was the first officially recognized black military unit in the United States. When

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Source: Black Past

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