Chuck E. Burris

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Jan

0

1976

After KKK Facebook Post, Georgia High School Athletic Director Investigated

Jody Hilley is the Lakeside High School Athletic Director in Augusta, Georgia and he is also someone who likes to post about Klu Klux

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

‘Member Of The KKK’ Who Shot Daughter’s Black Boyfriend Is Freed On $500 Bail

A reported member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) shot his daughter’s Black boyfriend multiple times during what he described without proof as an instance of self-defense last month in Virginia

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Source: NewsOne

'Birth of a Nation' Protest

In 1915 all of Boston's Black institutions, agencies, and community leaders united to protest the showing of the film, 'Birth of a Nation,' at the Tremont Theater because the film portrayed southern Blacks as depraved and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Despite the collective protest, the city allowed

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

Los Angeles newspaper owner and political activist Charlotta Bass began her career as a conservative Republican. By the 1940s, however, she moved to the political left. In 1948 she supported Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in his failed bid for the Presidency. Four years later she was

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Source: Black Past

Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom

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Source: Black Inventors

Cops link burial site to Klansman Gang

AN unofficial burial site the police have linked to the infamous Klansman Gang, which mainly operates in Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday yielded the remains of at least two people after investigators revisited a cold

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Wilkinson, Anne Raven (1935- )

In August 1955 at the age of 20, Raven Wilkinson became the first African American woman to receive a contract to dance full time with a major ballet company, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo of New York City, New York. She was promoted to soloist during her second season with the troupe, and

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Source: Black Past

Feb

2

1935

Election Results 1968

In one voting day, ninety-seven Blacks were elected to state legislatures, seven were elected to mayor, and four hundred to local governments in the former Confederate states.

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Nov

6

1968

The Original Karens: From Emmett Till’s Accuser To The White Woman Who Sparked The Tulsa Massacre

Over the weekend, #KarensGoneWild trended on social media with jaw-dropping videos of frantic white women attacking Black women, toddlers, teenagers and grown Black

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

California sandwich shop owner likes BLM to KKK, loses franchise

Mr. Pickle's Sandwich Shop in Davis, California (via

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Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers’ Quest For Racial Equality Still Resonates

UPDATED: 3:25 p.m. ET, June 12, 2020

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Black Women Launching Digital Green Book For Black Travelers | Afro

DENVER-AREA WOMEN LAUNCH DIGITAL GREEN BOOK CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT SAFE, WELCOMING BUSINESS AND TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK AMERICANS

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West

In the article below historian Robin Dearmon Muhammad discusses the growth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) or the Garvey Movement in the American West, with particular emphasis on its influence in black working-class organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area after World War

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Source: Black Past

Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1960 to 1964

This civil rights movement timeline chronicles important dates during the struggles second chapter, the early 1960s. While the fight for racial equality began in the 1950s, the non-violent techniques the movement embraced began to pay off during the following decade. Civil rights activists and

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Source: ThoughtCo

8 Of The Deadliest Race Riots Involving African Americans In U.S. History

The riot began with a fistfight between a white sailor and a black man who was thought to have insulted the

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Source: Black Then

Robert H. Wood

Robert H. Wood, Mississippi political leader, elected mayor of Natchez.

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Dec

20

1870

Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark

Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, became the first Black president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

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Jul

1

1976

Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District

Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Nov

28

1871

Richard Arrington was elected the first Black mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 1979

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Oct

30

1979

Tennessee Republicans vote to keep KKK leader bust in Capitol

The bronze bust of Confederate and Ku Klux Klan leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, will remain inside the Tennessee State

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Source: theGrio

How Black history is taught in schools faces new scrutiny

The state’s new standards are going out to schools as a national conversation on racial injustice brings new scrutiny to how African American history is taught

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

25 Facts about Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Black History Studies

Marcus Garvey worked at the offices of the African Times and Orient Review journal under the leadership of Duse Mohammed Ali, the famous Black nationalist and

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Source: Black History Studies – Educating the community to educate themseves

Virginia To Take Down Robert E. Lee Statue

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is planning to announce on Thursday the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Porsha Williams Remembers Being Chased By The KKK As A Child

Porsha individually is not really known for her activism, though she is the granddaughter of prominent Civil Rights Leader, Hosea Williams, who closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership

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Source: Black America Web

10 military posts are named for these Confederate commanders. The Army is thinking about changing that | The Atlanta Voice

Who it is named for: Lt. Gen. Ambrose Powell (A.P.) Hill

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Sharon Pratt Dixon sworn in as Mayor of DC

Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of the District of Columbia. Dixon succeeded Marion Barry who was convicted of cocaine possession in the summer of 1990.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

2

1991

12 Must See Black History Movies

Decades of struggle and hardship paid off when United States elected a black president. It is still too early to say that discrimination has been completely abolished from U.S as different races are being targeted instead of blacks. The blacks who used to be traded to western countries and kept as

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Source: Famous African Americans

Majette, Denise L. (1955- )

Denise Majette, former member of Congress, attorney, judge, and politician, was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 18, 1955 to Voyd Lee and Olivia (Foster) Majette. In 1976, Majette graduated from Yale University. She earned her law degree from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in

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May

18

1955

Lawmakers press FBI to release report on white supremacists inside police departments

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