Charles McGee

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Charles McGee

Charles McGee was an African American pilot in the 332nd Fighter Group. Deployed to Italy in 1944, McGee saw action both escorting heavy bombers on missions to Europe, and engaging enemy fighter aircraft.

Source: The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University | FactMonster

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Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, is born

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, Born May 29, 1914 in Mexia, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science from Wiley College in 1934 and a Master of Science from Atlanta University in 1936. Henry McBay earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1945. McBay served as an Instructor

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29

1914

Trump Keeps Raising 'Obamagate.' What's That?

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has accused his predecessor Barack Obama of seeking to damage his presidency, repeatedly referring to it as “Obamagate” but offering no

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African-American history

African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-American or Black American ethnic groups in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. Blacks from the

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Jan

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1863

Ku Klux Klan ko͞o˝ klŭks klăn [key], designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used the name. The first Ku Klux Klan was an organization that thrived in the South during the Reconstruction

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Ellison, Ralph (Ralph Waldo Ellison), 1914–94, African-American author, b. Oklahoma City studied Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee Univ.). Originally a trumpet player and aspiring composer, he moved (1936) to New York City, where he met Langston Hughes , who became his mentor, and became friends

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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington , in full Booker Taliaferro Washington (born April 5, 1856, Franklin county, Virginia, U.S.—died November 14, 1915, Tuskegee, Alabama.), educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and

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Carl Crawford Addresses Drowning Victims At His Home, Prays For Families

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Gen. Mark Milley Says Accompanying Trump To Church Photo-Op Was A Mistake

Gen. Mark Milley Says Accompanying Trump To Church Photo-Op Was A Mistake

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Black Lives Matter at War with America.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Outrageously, cowardly and traitorous politicians are allowing Black Lives Matter, a racist hate group to engage in an “Everything Must Go” fire-sale against

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Winfrey, Oprah (1954 - )

Repeatedly on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Oprah Winfrey is a television host, media mogul – in television, radio, film, and print – and philanthropist. Forbes magazine included her in its 2003 list of America’s billionaires, the first African American

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Jan

30

1954

Rwanda: People Living With Albinism Grapple With Stigma, Access to Health Care

He now holds a master's degree in Public International Law and is an assistant to the prosecutor of the National Public Prosecution Authority at Muhanga Intermediate

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History of Slavery in America

Follow the timeline to learn more about the history of slavery in the United States, including the arrival of the first African slaves to America, the federal banishment of slave importation, and the abolishment of slavery in the United

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Million Man March Leaves Mark In South Carolina

Columbia (BNC) — Since the murder of George Floyd, over 300 protest across the nation has sparked, however, independent movement “Million Man March” in Columbia, South Carolina has put a new spin on how protest are seen in the United

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What I Just Learned About Black People In Early American History Blew My Mind

A friend just sent me a video that changed my view on American

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Washington, Booker Taliaferro

Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856–1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. Washington was born into slavery his mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man whom he never knew. After the Civil War, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, W.Va., and

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Robert Fikes, Jr., a 1970 graduate of Tuskegee Institute, earnedgraduate degrees in modern European history and library science at theUniversity of Minnesota. A reference librarian at San Diego StateUniversity where he is also subject bibliographer for Africana Studiesand for American, Middle

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The Changing Definition of African-American History

Since the origins of the field in the late 19th century, scholars have devised more than one definition of what constitutes African-American history. Some intellectuals have viewed the field as an extension or corollary to American history. Some have stressed the influence of Africa on

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 2: "Banneker's Letter"

In Episode 2, we commend African Americans who fought back against prejudice and racism long before the Civil War, with a focus on Benjamin Banneker. In 1791, Banneker confronted Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his conflicting views of slavery. He challenged Jeffersons perception of

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Drew, Charles R. (1904-1950)

Charles R. Drew, a renowned physician and medical researcher and the first black surgeon examiner of the American Board of Surgery, revolutionized medicine by creating a system that allowed the immediate and safe transfusion of blood

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Hallie Quinn Brown: Harlem Renaissance Figure

Known for: popular lecturer and dramatic elocutionist, role in Harlem Renaissance, preservation of Frederick Douglass home; African American educator

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Franklin, John Hope (1915--2009)

John Hope Franklin, one of the nations leading historians, is the only African American who has served as president of both the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians

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Mar

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2009

Racial terror: 2,000 black Americans were lynched in Reconstruction era, report says

The report, Reconstruction in America, documents more than 2,000 black victims of racial terror lynchings killed between the end of the civil war in 1865 and the collapse of federal efforts to protect the lives and voting rights of black Americans in

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Williams, George Washington (1849-1891)

George Washington Williams was a 19th century American historian most famous for his volumes, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880; as Negroes, as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens (1882), and A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion (1887).Williams was born in

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Umontuen: 'In Atlanta, 'Black Press Matters' now more than ever' | The Atlanta Voice

What I have found as I covered the protest for Rayshard Brooks on June 13, that it’s pretty easy to see why not only “Black Lives Matter” but “Black Journalists Matter” and “Black Media

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A Miles Jaye Short: "GATEKEEPERS" | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

It was an ordinary summer day. The sky was a perfect, cloudless azure blue, mid-afternoon, not quite 3:00. Mine is an ordinary hometown by today’s standards- the year, 2030. The one oddity about my Brooklyn neighborhood was the elevated train station at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Washington

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The Commitment of Eight Minutes and Forty-Six Seconds; Honoring George Floyd at His Home Coming.

Political leaders and spiritual guidance affirmed Big Floyd’s homecoming; close friends and families gathered to find comfort in one another as George Floyd lay to

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Suspect in Custody for the Fatal Shooting of Nine-Year-Old Boy | Chicago Defender

A suspect is in custody according to Chicago Police involving the shooting death of nine-year-old Janari Ricks. Ricks was playing Friday evening in a vacant lot near the 900 Block

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Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate In 2020.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt

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Crossing Boundaries of Race, Crossing Boundaries of Love

In the following article, Dr. Gary B. Nash, Director, National Center for History in the Schools and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes his new book, Forbidden Love: The Hidden History of Mixed-Race America. His book provides a counter narrative

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