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Mar

10

1989

Reconstruction of the South began with the

Reconstruction of the South began with the registering of Black and white voters in the South. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan ordered registration to begin in Louisiana on May 1 and to continue until June 30. Registration began in Arkansas in May. Other states followed in June and July. By the end of

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May

1

1867

Frank Holoman born

Frank Holomon, elected to the California Assembly from the Los Angeles area in 1972, born in 1934.

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Jan

10

1934

Samuel L. Jackson

Actor Samuel Jackson was born on this day in Washington, DC. Jackson will begin his acting career as a student at Morehouse College. He will star in over 40 movies including box office hits The Long Kiss Goodnight, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and A Time to Kill.

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Dec

21

1941

Richard t. Greener

Richard T. Greener, first Black graduate of Harvard University, named professor of metaphysics at the University of South Carolina.

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Nov

16

1873

Robert B. Elliott

Robert B. Elliott elected Speaker of the lower house of the South Carolina legislature.

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Nov

24

1874

Henry McNeal Turner Born

Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age

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Feb

1

1834

A Chicago Picketing

Dont Buy Where You Cant Work campaign began in Chicago with picketing of Chain stores on South Side, fall. The campaign spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and continued throughout the Depression.

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Dec

30

1929

Lloyd Richards wins a Tony

Lloyd Richards wins a Tony as best director for the August Wilson play Fences. The play also wins Tonys for best play, best performance by an actor, and best performance by a featured actress

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Jun

7

1987

John Stephens Durham

John Stephens Durham, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, named minister to Haiti.

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Sep

3

1891

Claimed Pres. Election

President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claimed the presidential election. Republicans and Democrats claimed elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.

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Nov

7

1876

Singer Billy Daniels dies

Jazz and ballad singer Billy Daniels dies in Los Angeles.

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Oct

7

1988

Eddie Kendricks

Eddie Kendricks is born in Union Springs, Alabama. He will become

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Dec

17

1939

Jack Johnson, boxer died

Jack Johnson, heavyweight boxing champion Died: June 10, 1946

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Jun

10

1946

Freedman's Bureau

U.S. Army commander in South Carolina ordered Freedmens Bureau to stop seizing abandoned land .

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Sep

3

1865

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1782 - Los Angeles, California is founded by 44 settlers, of whom at least 26 are black.

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Jan

0

1782

Black Codes Issued in S.C.

South Carolina issues one of the first set of black codes to regulate the relations of persons of color. Among the codes included those of illegal interracial marriages, master apprentice relations and service contracts.

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Dec

21

1865

Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard born

Sugar Ray Leonard

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May

17

1956

Louis defeated Braddock

Joe Louis defeated James J. Braddock for heavyweight boxing Championship.

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Jun

22

1937

Fifty-fourth Congress (1895-97) convened

Fifty-fourth Congress (1895-97) convened. One Black congressman: George W. Murray, South Carolina.

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Dec

2

1895

George Washington Murray was elected to Congress by South Carolina, 1895

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Sep

5

1895

First Black to enter West Point school

James W. Smith of South Carolina entered West Point. Smith, the first Black student, did not graduate.

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Jul

1

1870

Field Order No. 15

Gen. William T. Sherman issued his Field Order No. 15 setting aside the islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the river for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns River, Florida, for exclusive settlement by Blacks. The order provided that

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Jan

16

1865

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte was shown with actress Janet Leigh and film star Tony Curtis on the cover of Ebony magazine. It was the first time a black person and two Caucasians were seen together on a U.S. magazine cover.

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Jul

3

1953

Forty-second Congress convened

Forty-second Congress convened (1871-73) with five Black congressmen: Joseph H. Rainey, Robert Carlos Delarge and Robert Brown Elliott,South Carolina; Benjamin S. Turner, Alabama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida. Walls was elected in an at-large election and was the first Black congressman to represent an

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Mar

4

1869

Democrats suppressed Black vote

Democrats suppressed Black vote by fraud and violence and carried Mississippi election. The Mississippi Plan staged riots, political assassinations, massacres and social and economic intimidation was used later to overthrow Reconstruction governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.

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Nov

2

1875

Football star Earl Campbell born

Football star Earl Campbell was born in Tyler, Texas.

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Mar

29

1955

Gen. E.R.S. Canby

Gen. E.R.S. Canby ordered South Carolina courts to impanel Blacks jurors.

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Sep

13

1867

South Carolina General Assembly met in Columbia

South Carolina General Assembly met in Columbia Stephen A. Swails was elected president pro tem of the senate, and Samuel J. Lee was elected Speaker of the house. The Assembly named four Blacks to the seven-man governing board of the University of South Carolina: Samuel J. Lee, J.A. Bowley, Stephen

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Nov

26

1872

Did You Know That In...

1740 - A South Carolina act prohibits teaching slaves to write.

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Jan

0

1740

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