Governor W.W. Holden

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Dec

16

1875

Foxx, Anthony Renard (1971- ) - Birthday

Anthony Foxx, the seventeenth United States Secretary of Transportation, was born April 30, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised by his mother, Laura Foxx, and grandparents James and Mary Foxx.

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Apr

30

1971

Jackson, Jessie Louis, Sr. (1941- )

Long before he became a minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, Jesse Louis Jackson impressed his family and close friends as a person destined for greatness. Born

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Oct

8

1941

Charles Drew, Inventor of the Blood Bank

At a time when millions of soldiers were dying on battlefields across Europe, the invention of Dr. Charles R. Drew saved countless lives. Drew realized that separating and freezing the component parts of blood would enable it to be safely reconstituted later. This technique led to the development

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Jun

3

1904

Sharpless, Mattie R. (1943- ) - Birthday

Sharpless was born in Hampstead, North Carolina on July 1, 1943 to James and Lecola Sharpless.

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Jul

1

1943

The Exception but Never the Rule – Voice and Viewpoint

On April 21, 2020, San Diego Superior Court Judge Harry Elias granted Jane Dorotik, 73, to be released from prison due to health issues and her

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou , original name Marguerite Annie Johnson (born April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died May 28, 2014, Winston-Salem, North Carolina), American poet, memoirist, and actress whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual

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May

28

2014

NABJ Caught with Their Hand in the Proverbial Chinese Cookie Jar.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has once again shown their liberal bias and lack of

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Jack Johnson - Death

Jack Johnson died on June 10, 1946 in an automobile accident in Raleigh, North Carolina and was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954.

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Jun

10

1946

Rev. Samuel Thomas begins teaching slaves in the firstknown school for blacks

Rev. Samuel Thomas begins teaching slaves in the firstknown school for blacks in the US, Goose Creek Parsh, Charleston SC.

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Jan

0

1695

Boykin, Keith (1965- )

Author, commentator, speaker, political advisor, and columnist Keith Boykin was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 28, 1965 but was raised in the suburb of

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Aug

28

1965

Forty-ninth Congress (1885-87) convened

Forty-ninth Congress (1885-87) convened. Two Black congressmen: James E. OHara, North Carolina; Robert Smalls, South Carolina.

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Dec

7

1885

N.C. A&T to Celebrate Class of 2020 Virtually

Combined with the December graduates and additional graduates projected for the first summer school session, North Carolina A&T is expected to produce some 2,400 graduates for the academic year, the most in university history for a single

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Turner, Benjamin Sterling (1825-1894) - Birthday

Benjamin Sterling Turner, a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama during the Reconstruction period, was born on March 17, 1825 in Weldon, North Carolina.

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Mar

17

1825

Armed white mob terrorizing Black family in North Carolina captured in surveillance footage

Dameon Shepherd

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North Charleston native on her way to dream career as surgeon

Her grandmother’s death after her second heart surgery, when Drayton was 11 years old, inspired Drayton to pursue a medical

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African-American History Timeline: 1890 - 1899

Like many decades before, the 1890’s were filled with great achievements by African-Americans as well as many injustices. Almost thirty years after the establishment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, African-Americans such as Booker T. Washington were establishing and heading

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 9: "Port Royal Experiment"

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Lynch, Loretta Elizabeth (1959- ) - Birthday

Attorney and public prosecutor Loretta Elizabeth Lynch was born on May 21, 1959 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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May

21

1959

Murray, George Washington (1853–1926) - Birthday

South Carolina Congressman George Washington Murray was born near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina, on September 22, 1853 to slave parents.

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Sep

22

1853

Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

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August Wilson

August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the

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Michael Jordan's UNC Dorm Room Is Being Re-Created for Guests By a Chapel Hill Hotel

But they’ll have a chance to see how he lived as a student during his years at the University of North Carolina in Chapel

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Miller, Thomas E. (1849-1938)

Politician and educator, Thomas E. Miller was born in Ferrebeeville, Beaufort County, South Carolina on June 17, 1849. Miller was the son of free black parents, and moved with them to Charleston, South Carolina in 1851 where he attended the all-black schools in the city. After the Civil

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Apr

8

1938

Henry E

Henry E. Hayne, secretary of state, accepted as a student at the University of South Carolina. Scores of Blacks attended the university in 1874 and 1875.

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Oct

7

1873

Gerrymandering - Definition and Examples in Politics

Gerrymandering is the act of drawing of congressional, state legislative or other political boundaries to favor a political party or one particular candidate for elected office. The purpose of gerrymandering is to grant one party power over another by creating districts that hold dense

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Officers killed three students during

Officers killed three students during demonstration on the campus of South Carolina State in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Students were protesting segregation at an Orangeburg bowling alley.

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Feb

8

1968

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

1

1863

A storm in the midst of a storm –

Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz said last week his agency is redeveloping plans about evacuations and shelters, while also adding facemasks to the state’s stockpile of storm

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5 Years After Charleston Church Shooting, South Carolina Protects Racist Monuments

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Five years ago, after eight Black church members and their pastor were shot and killed in a racist attack, South Carolina came together and took down the Confederate flag from the Capitol

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