James & Lydia Sims

Campbell, Bertha Pitts (1889-1990)

Bertha Pitts Campbell was an early Seattle civil rights worker, a founder of the Christian Friends for Racial Equality, and an early board member of the Seattle Urban League. She was also one of 22 young women at Howard University in 1913, who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, one of the

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Collateral Beauty (2016)

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"Hit the Floor's" Jonathan McDaniel Releases Two New Singles

Jonathan “Lil J” McDaniel continues to inspire fans with his two new singles, “Like Me” featuring Bobby Luv, and “Dance Is on the House,” which debuted on the June 30 episode of “Hit the Floor” to 3.9 million

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Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007) - Birthday

Skinner was born on June 20, 1924 in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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20

1924

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Leads Rally - Part 2

In April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a graduate of Boston University School of Theology, led a march from Roxbury to a rally on Boston Common to protest the evils of school segregation in Boston. Dr. King spoke at the State House where he appealed to the Massachusetts legislature to end

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Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler was an award winning science fiction author. She was born in June 1947 in Pasadena, California to Octavia Margaret Guy and Laurice James Butler. She was raised by her mother and grandmother as her father passed away when she was very young. She grew up in a strict environment and was

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Disney to release 'Hamilton' performance in July on its streaming service

FILE PHOTO: 2018 Kennedy Center Honorees team members of the Broadway play "Hamilton" (L-R) Andy Blakenbuehler, Thomas Kail (hidden), Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alex Lacamoire take a "selfie" at the conclusion of a gala dinner at the U.S. State Department, in Washington, U.S., December

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Williams, Sidney (1942- )

Former professional football player, businessman, and diplomat, Sidney Williams was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on March 24, 1942. Raised in Houston, Texas, he attended the city’s Phillis Wheatley High School and upon graduation in 1959 enrolled at Southern University in Baton

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Allen, Bernadette Mary (1955- ) - Birthday

Allen was born on June 5, 1955 in Washington, D.

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5

1955

Scott, Dred (1795-1858) - Death

Harriett Scott died eighteen years later on June 17, 1876.

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17

1876

Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) - Birthday

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, born June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, moved to Chicago, Illinois where she was reared and launched her literary career.

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1917

Hinderas, Natalie Leota (1927-1987) - Birthday

Concert pianist Natalie Hinderas was born Natalie Leota Henderson on June 15, 1927, to parents Abram Henderson and Leota Palmer Henderson in Oberlin, Ohio.

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15

1927

Lloyd Hall - Birthday

Lloyd Hall was born on June 20, 1894 in Elgin, Illinois.

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20

1894

Betty Shabazz - Death

She died on June 1, 1997 at the age of 63.

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1

1997

MaliVai Washington

Former tennis pro MaliVai Washington was born on June 20, 1969 in Glen Cove, New

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20

1969

Benjamin Montgomery

Benjamin Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudon County, Virginia. He was sold to Joseph E. Davis, a Mississippi planter. Davis was the older brother of Jefferson Davis who would later serve as the President of the Confederate States of America. After a period time, Davis could see great

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Florence Price, composer born - Death

Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florence's mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.

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3

1953

Jacques Rabemananjara - Birthday

Jacques Rabemananjara , (born June 23, 1913, Tananarive, Madagascar—died April 1, 2005, Paris, France), Malagasy politician, playwright, and poet.

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23

1913

Holloway, Anne Forrester (1941- 2006) - Birthday

Forrester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1941.

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2

1941

Dan Jacobson - Birthday

Dan Jacobson , (born March 7, 1929, Johannesburg, South Africa—died June 12, 2014, London, England), South African-born novelist and short-story writer who wrote with both humour and pathos of the troubled land of his birth and of his eastern European Jewish heritage, though in his later work he

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7

1929

Phyllis Hyman, singer dies

Died June 30, 1995 Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Music History Phyllis Hyman (1977) Somewhere in my lifetime (1978) You Know How To Love Me (1979) Cant We Fall In Love Again Goddess Of Love Living All Alone Prime Of My Life (1991) I Refuse To Be Lonely (1995)

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Jun

30

1995

Harris, Barbara C. (1930- ) - Birthday

Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930.

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12

1930

Roderick R. Paige

Roderick R. Paige served as the United States’ Secretary of Education in the first George W. Bush administration, from 2001 to 2005. As the Nation’s top educator, he championed student achievement and employed “best of breed” solutions to raise national standards of educational

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De Facto Segregation Hearing

On June 4, 1963 the Education Committee of Boston's NAACP Branch called for a public hearing onde facto segregation in the city's public schools. At a June 11 hearing the committee presented its case on behalf of Black students.

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G.W, Murray patents fertilizer distributor

Murray, G. W. Fertilizer Distributor June 05, 1894 Patent No. 520,889

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5

1894

Soweto, South Africa (1904- )

Soweto, an acronym for “South Western Townships,” is a grouping of townships scattered across twenty kilometers southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. A quintessential example of segregationist planning, Soweto initially was the result of mass evictions and evacuations of black

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Jun

16

1976

Smythe, John Henry (1915-1996) - Birthday

Jurist and Royal Air Force (RAF) Flight Lieutenant John “Johnny” Henry Smythe was born on June 30, 1915, in the West African port city of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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30

1915

Nix, Robert Nelson Cornelius, Sr. (1898-1987) - Death

After his loss, he remained a leader of the Thirty-second Ward until his death in Philadelphia on June 22, 1987.

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22

1987

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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10

1946

Hunt, William Henry (1863-1951) - Birthday

Hunt claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six posing as a twenty-year-old, a lie he kept to his grave.

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29

1869

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