Booker T. Washington

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Booker T. Washington

Born: 4/5/1856 Hale's Ford

Died: 11/14/1915 Tuskegee, Alabama

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.

Business / Schooling:

Wayland Seminary (1878–1879), Hampton University (1875)

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Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants.For his contributions to American society, Washington was granted an honorary master's degree from Harvard University in 1896 and an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 1901.

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Racial integration

Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation). In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture

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A defining moment: SpaceX will this week launch humans into space

You’ve turned over the keys to the private sector for low-earth orbit, which frees up Nasa to do other things

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History of the African Americans in Houston

The African American population in Houston, Texas has been a significant part of the cities community since its founding. As of 2010, John B. Strait and Gang Gong, authors of Ethnic Diversity in Houston, Texas: The Evolution of Residential Segregation in the Bayou City, 1990–2000, stated that of

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Events leading to

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African-Americans in 1790

There were 766 African-Americans (4 percent of the population) counted in Boston in the first United State Census in 1790.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Meet Ernest White: The FAMU Grad Behind The Travel TV Show ‘Fly Brother’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

Although Black people have always traveled, it has only begun to surge within the last 7-10 years, largely in part to the internet and travel blogs like White’s becoming more

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

List of landmark African-American legislation

Ordinance of 1787: The Northwest Territorial Government (Northwest

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We shouldn’t try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate

Seven prominent Black women activists have made a strong case, and a bit of stir, in a Washington Post Op-Ed, “Biden Still Needs Black

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Source: Chicago Defender

African-American History Timeline: 1890 - 1899

Like many decades before, the 1890’s were filled with great achievements by African-Americans as well as many injustices. Almost thirty years after the establishment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, African-Americans such as Booker T. Washington were establishing and heading

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African-Americans first served as jurors in Massachusetts in 1860.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Harriet Tubman House

In 1904 the Harriet Tubman House was founded in Boston's South End neighborhood by six Black women who donated their time, resources, and even their property to establish a settlement house to 'assist working girls (from the South) in charitable ways.' Julia O. Henson (a personal friend of

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Financial Expert, Shawn Rochester, Releases New Book to Help Change How You Think About Your Personal Finances

Southbury, CT — Shawn Rochester is an author, entrepreneur, investor and sought-after speaker who has spoken on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, the United Nations and lectured at leading universities about the staggering financial cost of discrimination against Black people in America and advocates

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In Letter to Congress: Black Wealth 2020 Sends Plea for Unity in Pandemic Relief Black-owned businesses got little relief under PPP

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As the U. S. House of Representatives awaits the political fate of another multi-trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill, called the “Heroes Act”, Black Wealth 2020 (BW2020), a national catalyst for economic justice for African-Americans, is pressing Congressional leaders to

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Black History Observed Through Genetic Makeup, According To Research

The first one was the human trade that led thousands of African slaves to the southern United States, and the second was the Great Migration period, which started around 1910, when millions of African-Americans entered New York, Chicago, and various other parts of

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Mistreatment of Africans in China: Trump questions WHO's silence

“On April 11, 2020, several African Ambassadors wrote to the Chinese Foreign Ministry about the discriminatory treatment of Africans related to the pandemic in Guangzhou and other cities in

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Emergency Grants to a Grouping of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic | Black Voice News

NEW YORK, May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced $1.76 million in emergency grants distributed to 16 Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Dred Scott Timeline

In 1857, just a few years before the Emancipation Proclamation, a slave named Samuel Dred Scott lost a fight for his

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Temperance Society

In the early 1830s Jane Putnam and Susan Paul formed a temperance society. In 1833 the group was responsible for 114 African-Americans taking the 'cold water pledge' denouncing liquor. Two years later in 1835 the New England Temperance Society of People of Color was formed.

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Liberia /l aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə/ ( listen), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi) and has a population of

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Virginia Union University (1865- )

Virginia Union University, a historically black university located in Richmond, Virginia, traces its roots back to the Wayland Seminary, founded in 1865 by the American Baptist Home Missionary Society (ABHMS). The institution, however, is the result of the merger of four institutions: Wayland

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1899

Another Black Private Equity Banker Pays Off HBCU Student’s Tuition at Graduation

Frank Baker and his wife Laura Day Baker, gifted Spelman College $1 million to offset the tuition for 50 high-achieving graduates that had tuition balances and needed

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Carter G. Woodson

Born: 12/19/1875 New Canton, VirginiaDied: 4/3/1950 Washington, D.C., United StatesKnown as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson believed that documenting and sharing African American contributions was essential to cultivating positive self worth among African-Americans as

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Josephine Baker: French Resistance and the CIvil Rights Movement

Josephine Baker is best remembered for dancing topless and wearing a banana skirt. Baker’s popularity rose during the 1920s for dancing in Paris. Yet until her death in 1975, Baker was devoted to fighting against injustice and racism throughout the

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1975

History of the African-Americans in Philadelphia

This article documents the history of the African-Americans in

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Alex Haley wrote Roots, one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s. Haley spent 20 years in the Coast Guard (1939-59) then began a second career as a writer, working for magazines ranging from Readers Digest to Playboy. Haley was a ghostwriter on his first major book: The Autobiography of

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Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois

Throughout his career as a sociologist, historian, educator, and sociopolitical activist, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois argued for immediate racial equality for African-Americans. His emergence as an African-American leader paralleled the rise of Jim Crow laws of the South and the

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Feb

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1868

American Policing Has Always Been About Enforcing White Supremacy

The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American policing and police brutality, have been called on a lot since mass protests sprang up nationwide in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and

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Carrington, Walter Charles (1930 - )

Walter Charles Carrington served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal from 1980 to 1981, and to Nigeria from 1993 to 1997. He married Arese Ukpoma, a Nigerian physician, and has lived in three Nigerian cities since the late

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Source: Black Past

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1930

African-American History Timeline: 1850 to 1859

The 1850s were a turbulent time in American history. For African-Americans—freed and enslaved— the decade was marked by great achievements as well as setbacks. For instance, several states established personal liberty laws to counter the negative impact of the Fugitive Slave Law of

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WATCH: Charlamagne tha God suggests African-Americans legally buy firearms so they don’t end up like Ahmaud Arbery

During a panel discussion on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, radio personality and commentator Charlamagne tha God briefly stunned host Alex Witt by first saying he wished shooting victim Ahmaud Arbery had been armed to defend himself before being gunned down by two white Georgia men — then advised

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