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Marches for the right to vote

James Meredith wounded by white sniper as he walked along U.S. Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi, on second day of 220-mile voter registration march from Memphis to Jackson. March was continued on June 7 by Martin Luther King Jr., Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and other civil rights

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Jun

6

1966

Union blows everyone away

Union exploded mine under rebel lines near Petersburg, committed three white and one Black divisions and was soundly defeated. Black division of Ninth Corps sustained heavy casualties in ill-planned attack. Only union success of day was scored by Forty-third U.S.C.T. which captured two hundred

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Jul

30

1864

Dr. Harold D. West

Dr. Harold D. West is named President of Meharry Medical College

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Jun

14

1952

Patricia R.Harris

Patricia R. Harris named secretary of housing and urban development by President-elect Carter.

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Dec

21

1976

1st Black Supreme Court Justice

Thurgood Marshall, U.S. solicitor general, named to the Supreme Court by President Johnson. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 30 and became the first Black Supreme Court justice.

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Jun

13

1967

Executive Order 11246

Executive Order 11246 enforces affirmative action for the first time

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Sep

24

1965

Dr

Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. elected president of Michigan State University and became the first Black to head a major, predominantly white university in the twentieth century.

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Oct

17

1969

President Lincoln received first group of Blacks

President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks.

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Aug

14

1862

Emmet Ashford becomes the first African American

Emmet Ashford becomes the first African American major league umpire when he is named to the American League

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Apr

12

1966

Government: local (Mississippi).

In Fayette, Mississippi on May 13,1969; James Charles Evers (1922-) was elected the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town. In June 1971, he became the first black in this century to seek the governors office.

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May

13

1969

First Aboriginal Senator Chosen

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May

23

1971

93rd Infantry

93rd Infantry activated and assigned to combat in the South Pacific; the first African American division formed during World War II

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May

15

1942

Levi Jackson

Levi Jackson became the first black football captain at Yale University.

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Jan

0

2000

Walter E. Washington

President Lyndon B. Johnson named Walter E. Washington commissioner and unofficial mayor of Washington, D.C.

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Sep

6

1967

Sophomore tackle Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Wa

Sophomore tackle Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against and African American. The exclusion will be temporary and the young Robeson will go on to be named a football All-American twice.

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Oct

14

1916

Etta Moten sings for President

Etta Moten sings for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at a White House Dinner. It is the first time an African American actress performs at the White House.

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Jan

31

1934

1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of

1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of the National Urban Leagues Opportunity magazine and professor and President of Fisk University, born

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Jul

24

1893

Mississippi Constitutional Convention began

Mississippi Constitutional Convention began systematic exclusion of Blacks from political life of South, August 12-November 1. The Mississippi Plan (Literacy and understanding tests) was later adopted with embellishments by other states: South Carolina (1895), Louisiana (1898), North Carolina

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Aug

12

1890

Liberian President Killed in Coup

Liberian President William R. Tolbert Jr. and twenty-seven others were killed in coup detat by army enlisted men led by master Sergeant Samuel Doe.

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Apr

12

1980

Fraternity,Omega Psi Phi, founded on the campus of Howard University, 1911

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Nov

17

1911

Forty-fifth Congress (1877-79) convened

Forty-fifth Congress (1877-79) convened. One U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi. Three U.S. congressmen: Richard H. Cain, Joseph H. Rainey, Robert Smalls, South Carolina. Jackson College (Miss.) established.

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Oct

15

1877

President George Bush nominated conservative black Clarence Thomas to replace Th

President George Bush nominated conservative black Clarence Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall.

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Jul

2

1991

John Roy Lynch, served in the 43rd, 44th, and 47th Congresses representing the S

John Roy Lynch, served in the 43rd, 44th, and 47th Congresses representing the State of Mississippi as a Republican, born. He also presided as a temporary chairman over the Republican National Convention of 1884 and was the first African American to deliver the keynote address.

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Sep

10

1847

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

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Andrew F. Brimmer, economist and former Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania, is nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to serve as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System. This appointment represented the first black to serve in this capacity.

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Apr

13

1966

James Amos Porter (1905-1970)

born on this day; wrote the definitive book, Modern Negro Art (1943, 1969, 1992); head, Department of Art, Howard University from 1953-1970; painter and historian

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Dec

22

1905

Singer Roberta Flack born

b. 10 February 1937, Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Born into a musical family, Flack graduated from Howard University with a BA in music. She was discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by pianist Les McCann, who recommended her talents to Atlantic Records. Two classy

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Feb

10

1940

Black Codes enacted

Mississippi passed the so-called Black Codes that barred blacks from jury service, testifying against whites in trials, bearing arms and attending white schools.

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Nov

24

1865

Emmett W. Chappelle: Biochemist

Born: October 25, 1925

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Oct

25

1925

Hirman R. Revels

Hirman R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.

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Feb

25

1870

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