Blacks soldiers fought in battles

Alabama A&M University [Normal] (1875-- )

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical (Alabama A & M) University is a historically black university located in the city of Normal, Alabama. The school began in 1875 when Alabama officials used the Morrill Act of 1862 allowing state governments to establish colleges for African American

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16

2009

Black Scotts

The ancestry of teh British people we know today as the Scotch can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, who used to visit

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Jan

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770

Peter "The Black Prince" Jackson wins the Australian heavyweight title, becoming

Peter The Black Prince Jackson wins the Australian heavyweight title, becoming the very first Black man to win a national boxing crown, 1886

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Sep

25

1886

Humanitarian Disaster Institute Joins Healthcare Ready and World Impact to Create Free Resource for Church Leaders Advocating COVID-19

A new guide from the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College, created in partnership with Healthcare Ready and World Impact, provides a practical and Biblical resource to support the ministry of Black churches speaking and acting against racism while also protecting

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Blacks fought in the battles of 1812

Blacks fought in the land and water battles of the War of 1812. A large number of Black sailors fought with Matthew Perry and Isaac Chauncey in the battles on the upper lakes and were particularly effective at the Battle of Lake Erie. Two battalions of Black soldiers were with Andrew Jackson when

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Dec

18

1814

Sierra leone

The trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, on charges of crimes against humanity began at a UN criminal court at The Hague in 2007. He was charged with abetting the violent rebel group in Sierra Leones civil war that was responsible for atrocities, which included hacking off the

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Jemele Hill Responds After Right-Wing Troll Resurfaces Transphobic Tweet From 2009

Atlantic contributor and sports journalist Jemele Hill took to Twitter to respond to a resurfaced tweet where she used a transphobic

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Gen.George B. McClellan

Gen. George B. McClellan checked Robert E. Lees Northern advance at Battle of Antietam.

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Sep

17

1862

CRH gets 2,000 face masks from BPOs

The Physiotherapy Department at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay got a much-needed gift on Tuesday when the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) presented the institution with 2,000 face masks and 50 face

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Jefferson Davis Signed Bill

Jefferson Davis signed bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers in the Confederate army.

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Mar

13

1861

Linda A. Hill

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Previously, Hill served as the Faculty Chair of both the Leadership Initiative and the High Potentials Leadership Program within Harvard Business School. Hill also served as the Faculty Chair

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Black Union Soliders

Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry and units of the Twenty-fifth Corps were in the vanguard of Union troops entering Richmond. Second Division of Twenty-Fifth Corps helped chase Robert E. Lees army from Petersburg to Appomattox Court House, April 3-10. The Black division and white Union soldiers

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Apr

3

1865

Attorney General Hill given 30-day suspension | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Attorney General Curtis Hill, who made history as the state’s first African-American Attorney General following his election in 2016, had been facing allegations of inappropriately touching multiple women at a party celebrating the end of the legislative session in March

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The Black Madonna

The Black Madonna was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist (author of the Book of Luke); and it was while painting the picture, Marty told him about the life of Jesus, which was incorporated into his

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326

(1787) Jupiter Hammon, “An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York,"

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Shirley Chisholm - Birthday

Hill (born November 30, 1924, Brooklyn, New York, U.

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Nov

30

1924

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court

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Brisby, William H. (1831-1916)

William Henry Brisby was born free in New Kent County, Virginia in 1831 and lived on 32 acres of land that he inherited from his father. He later bought additional land and eventually had a 179 acre farm. Brisby worked mostly as a blacksmith and wheelwright but raised sheep, and engaged in

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Rebel Troops at Jenkins' Ferry

Regiment captured rebel battery after fighting rearguard action. Six infantry regiments checked rebel troops at Jenkins Ferry, Saline River, Arkansas. The troops were enraged by atrocities committed at Poison Spring two weeks ealier, that the Second Kansas Colored Volunteers went into battle

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Apr

30

1864

Soldier & patriot James Robinson is born. When he won a medal for bravery at th

Soldier & patriot James Robinson is born. When he won a medal for bravery at the Battle of Yorktown, he was promised his freedom for fighting with the Americans. After the war, he was sold back into slavery.

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Nov

28

1753

Ethiopia defeats Italy at Battle of Adowa

The Battle of Adwa and the Victory of Adwa Centenary Medal

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Mar

2

1896

Poor People's March led by Ralph Abernathy

Poor Peoples March led by Ralph Abernathy begins

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May

2

1968

Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill is a singer, songwriter and actress who shot to fame in the 1990s with her R&B band “The Fugees” and later as a solo performer. She was born on May 26, 1975 in New Jersey to Valerie and Mal Hill. Her mother was an English teacher and her father was a management

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May

26

1975

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

History of African Americans in Boston

Until 1950, African Americans were a small but historically important minority in Boston, where the population was overwhelmingly white. Since then, Bostons demographics have changed due to factors such as immigration, white flight, and gentrification. According to census information for

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Black Minutemen

Peter Salem of Framingham, Job Potomea and Isaiah Barjonah of Stoneham, Cuff Whitemore of Cambridge, Prince of Brookline, and Pompey of Braintree were among the Blacks in greater Boston who joined the Minutemen before the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Salem is remembered for fatally shooting

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Blacks in Battle

In one of the decisive battles of the war, two brigades of Black troops helped crush one of the Souths finest armies at the Battle of Nashville. Black troops opened the battle on the first day and successfully engaged the right of the rebel line. On the second day Col. Charles R. Thompsons Black

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Dec

15

1864

92nd Infantry Division, (1917–1919, 1942–1945)

The 92nd Infantry Division, a military unit of approximately fifteen thousand officers and men, was one of only two all-black divisions to fight in the United States Army in World War I and World War II. The 92nd Division was organized in October 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas, and included black

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Bacon's Rebellion

African Americans fought in the first armed rebellion against British authority in the colonies, Bacons Rebellion, in 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the rising generation of colonial planters who resented British rule and, particularly, the British protection of Indian lands that lay just

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Mar

26

2002

Battle of Waterberg (1904)

The Battle of Waterberg on August 11, 1904 in German South-West Africa (Namibia), triggered the annihilation decree by German military of the Herero people, the indigenous nomadic inhabitants of the area. An estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people perished during and after The Battle of Waterberg which

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Aug

11

1904

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