Figure skating pioneer dies

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Sep

14

1970

A virginia law authorizes branding both white andblack runaway servants.

A virginia law authorizes branding both white and black runaway servants.

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Jan

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1641

First black manager inmajor league baseball.

On August 31, 1935, in Beaumont, Texas, U.S., American professional baseball player and manager Frank Robinson was born. He was the first black manager in major league baseball.

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Aug

31

1935

Black candidate for lieutenant governor

Black candidate for lieutenant governor, Dr. J.H. Harris, defeated by a vote of 120,068 to 99,600 in Virginia.

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Jul

6

1869

Negro History Week

Carter G. Woddson started Negro History Week. This week would later become Black History Month.

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Feb

26

1926

Poet

In 1942, poet and writer Haki R. Madhubuti (nee Don Luther Lee) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. An advocate of independent Black institutions, he founded the Third World Press in 1967.

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Jan

0

1942

Did You Know That In...

1746 - Lucy Terry(1730-1821), a slave, writes Bars Fight, a commemorative poem recrating the Deerfield Massacre. This poem is the first known to be written by a black person in the United States and was not published until 1985.

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Jan

0

1746

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

Sam Cook, Father of Soul Music, born.

Singer Sam Cook, the son of a minister and believed by many to be the first father of soul music, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cook began his singing career with a gospel group known as the Singing Children. His fame came in 1965 with You and Me, Only 16, and his very famous Stand By Me and

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Jan

22

1931

Gas Burner invented by B.F. Jackson

B.F. Jackson, a black person, invented the Gas burner.

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Jan

0

Griffith, D. W.

Griffith, D. W. (David Llewelyn Wark Griffith), 1875–1948, American movie director and producer, b. La Grange, Ky. Griffith was the first major American film director. He began his film career as an actor and a scenario writer in 1908 with the Biograph Company. He soon began to direct and at once

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Carl B. Stokes

Carl B. Stokes elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana. Stokes was sworn in on November 13, and became the first Black to serve as mayor of a major American city.

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Nov

7

1967

Jackie Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Jan

24

1962

Scottsboro Boys Trial

First Scottsboro trial began in Scottsboro, Alabama. Trial of nine Black youths accused of raping two white women on a freight train became a cause celebré.

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Apr

6

1931

First Black Mayor of Houston, Texas

Lee Brown became Houstons first black mayor narrowly defeating businessman Rob Mosbacher.

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Dec

6

1997

Thomas L.Jennings IS THE FIRST BLACK TO BE GRANTED A PATENT INTHE UNITED STA

Thomas L.Jennings IS THE FIRST BLACK TO BE GRANTED A PATENT INTHE UNITED STATES FOR HIS TECHNIQUE TO DRY- SCOUR CLOTHES.

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Mar

3

1821

Paul Cuffe & other black taxpayers of Massachusetts protest to the statelegisl

Paul Cuffe & other black taxpayers of Massachusetts protest to the state legislature against taxation without representation, demanding the right to vote.

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Nov

16

1780

Unita Blackwell

Unita Blackwell was born this day in Lula, Mississippi. She became the first black woman mayor elected in Mississippi.

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Mar

18

1933

First Blacks in Baseball

Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first Black in the major leagues in modern times. Larry Doby joined the Cleveland Indians on July 6 and became the first Black in the American League. Three other Blacks played in the major leagues in 1947: Dan Bankhead, pitcher, Brooklyn

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Apr

25

1947

Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise

Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and entrepreneur, born

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Jan

9

1935

Thomas L Jennings

Thomas Jennings was the first African American to earn a U.S. patent for a dry cleaning process known as dry scouring...in 1821

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Jan

0

1821

Norma Merrick Sklarek

Norma Merick Sklarek was the first black woman to be honored by fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (AIA).Some of her credits are City Hall, San Bernardino Calif., and the US Embassy in Tokyo.

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Jan

0

1999

Confederate congress passed resolution which

Confederate congress passed resolution which branded Black troops and their officers criminals. Resolution, in effect, doomed captured Black soldiers to death or slavery.

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May

1

1863

Paul cuffe (1759-1817).

In 1784, Paul Cuffe was the first black to sail as master of his won ship. Born near Bedford, Massachusetts, Cuffe went to sea at a young age and became involved in the coastwide trade. He later developed trade with Sierra Leone, where he encouraged missionary work and

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Jan

0

1759

James B. Parsons

James B. Parsons becomes the first African American chief judge of a federal court, the U.S. District Court of Chicago. In 1961, Parsons became the first African American district court judge

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Mar

19

1975

Mattiwilda Dobbs, opera coloratura, born.

1925 : Mattiwilda Dobbs, opera coloratura, born. She debuted at La Scala in Milan in 1953. Her U.S. debut was in 1955 with the San Francisco Opera.

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Jul

11

1925

Forty-sixth Congress Convened

Forty-sixth Congress (1879-1881) convened. One U.S. Senator: Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi.

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Mar

18

1879

Jarena Lee was born

The daughter of former slaves, born in Cape May, New

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Feb

11

1783

Jurist Mifflin Gibbs born

Arkansas jurist Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gibbs became the nations first African American judge in 1873. From 1850-1858, he served as U.S. consul to Madagascar.

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Apr

17

1823

Slave uprise in Maryland

In 1739, the Black slaves of Prince Georges County, Maryland, secretly organized themselves into

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Jan

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1739

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