First Black Major League Umpire

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Jan

8

1836

Dan McClellan

Dan mcClellan was the first black baseball player to pitch a perfect game.

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Jan

0

2000

National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at

National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. Black and white students were demanding an end to ROTC programs and the admission of additional Black students.

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May

21

1970

Fifty-first Congress convened

Fifty-first Congress convened. Three Black congressmen: Henry P. Cheatham, North Carolina; Thomas E. Miller, South Carolina; John M. Langston, Virginia.

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Mar

4

1889

Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr.

Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. named first Black astronaut. He was killed during a training flight on December 8, 1967.

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Dec

8

1967

Mass Murder or was it Suicide?

More than nine hundred persons, most of them Black Americans, died in mass murder and suicide pact in Jonestown, Guyana.

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Nov

18

1978

First 24-Hour Black Movie Channel

BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz the first 24 hour Black Movie channel.

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Feb

1

1997

White terrorists attacked Black Republicans

White terrorists attacked Black Republicans in Hamburg, S.C., killing five.

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Jul

8

1876

B.O

B.O. Davis Jr. became the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force.

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Oct

27

1954

First Black Elected Mayor of a Major City

Being elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio made Carl Stokes the first Black to be elected mayor of a major city.

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Nov

13

1967

Third national Black convention met

Third national Black convention met in Philadelphia with twenty-nine delegates from eight states. Henry Sipkins of New York was elected president.

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Jun

4

1832

Mayor of Augusta Georgia

Edward M. McIntrye elected first Black mayor of Augusta, Georgia.

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Oct

28

1981

Intergrated Residential Areas

First city ordinance required white and black residential areas was passed by Baltimore City Council. Similar laws were passed in Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Greensboro, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Dallas and Louisville.

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Dec

19

1910

birthday, Dr Chancellor Williams

Historian and author of Destruction of Black Civilization, Dr Chancellor Williams was born

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Dec

22

1898

Crystal Bird Fauset becomes the 1st black woman electedto a state legislatur

Crystal Bird Fauset becomes the 1st black woman elected to a state legislature in the U.S. acquiring this distinction by being named to the Pennsylvania House of Represenatives.

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Nov

8

1938

Lou Rawls is born

Louis Allen Rawls AKA Lou Rawls born in Chicago. He is a three-time Grammy-winning singer and has been a popular black MOR singer since the Fifties.

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Dec

1

1935

James A Healy, first Black Roman Catholic bishop

James A Healy, first Black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated in cathedral at Portland, Maine.

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Jun

2

1975

John Mercer Langston (1829-97).

In October, 1868, John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University, the first in a black school. He headed the department when classes formally began on January 6, 1869, and was its dean from 1870 to 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he was vice-president and acting

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Jan

6

1869

First Slave revolt in America

The first slave revolt in America actually occurred 93 years

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Jan

0

1526

Congress helped Blacks in the military

Congress passed bill equalizing pay, arms, equipment and medical services of Black troops.

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Jun

15

1864

South Carolina constitutional convention

South Carolina constitutional convention, the first official assembly in the West with a Black majority, met in the Charleston Clubhouse with seventy-six Black delegates and forty-eight white delegates. Two-thirds of the Black delegates were former slaves. A New York Herald reporter wrote: Here in

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Jan

14

1868

Black Lieutenant General

Maj. Gen. B.O. Davis Jr., assistant deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, named lieutenant general, the highest rank attained by a Black to date in the armed services.

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Apr

16

1965

Xavier University, the first Black Catholic college in the US, opens in New Orle

Xavier University, the first Black Catholic college in the US, opens in New Orleans

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Sep

27

1915

Ballerina, Janet Collins, becomes the first Black dancer to appear with the Metr

Ballerina, Janet Collins, becomes the first Black dancer to appear with the Metropolitan Opera Company, 1951

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Nov

13

1951

Father of Black Nationalism Born

Marcus Garvey, the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements was born on this day in St. Anns Bay, Jamiaca.

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Aug

17

1887

National Urban League presented one-hour program

National Urban League presented one-hour program over a national radio network and urged equal participation for Blacks in national defense program.

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Mar

30

1941

Casket Lowering Device Invented

A. C. Richardson, a black inventor, invented the casket lowering device, patent#529,311

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Nov

13

1894

Black Youths Urged to Resit Induction

A. Phillip Randolph told Senate Armed Services Committee that unless segregation and discrimination were banned in draft programs he would urge Black youths to resist induction by civil disobedience.

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Mar

31

1948

NASA names thre Black astronauts

January 16, 1978 - NASA names Black astronauts: Maj. Frederick D. Gregory, Maj. Guion S. Bluford, and Dr. Ronald McNair.

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Jan

16

1978

Black Panther party founded in Oakland (Calif.) by

Black Panther party founded in Oakland (Calif.) by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

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Oct

15

1966

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