L.F. Brown patents bridle bit

Sharon J. Barnes, Chemist at Dow Chemical

Sharon J. Barnes, Chemist at Dow Chemical part of a team of five (two African Americans) who were assigned U.S. Patent #4,988,211 for an application in Infra-Red Thermography

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Jan

29

1991

Morris Brown College [Atlanta] (1885-- )

Established in 1881 and chartered by the State of Georgia in 1885, Morris Brown College is a private, liberal arts college located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school opened its doors on October 15, 1885 with 107 students and 9 teachers. Morris Brown College was founded by members of the African

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Ice Cream Scooper Invented

Alfred L. Cralle invented the ice cram scooper, patent #576,395

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Feb

2

1897

C.W. Allen patents table (self-levelling)

Allen, C. W. Self_leveling table Nov. 1, 1898 Patent No.613,436

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Nov

1

1898

First Black naval aviator, Jesse Leroy Brown was born, 1926

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Oct

13

1926

Brazil

In Jan. 2003, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former trade union leader and factory worker widely known by the name Lula, became Brazils first working-class president. As leader of Brazils only Socialist party, the Workers Party, Lula pledged to increase social services and improve the lot of the

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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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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816- )

Emanuel A.M.E. Church is the oldest black A.M.E. Church in the South and contains the oldest black congregation south of Baltimore, Maryland. The church’s early roots emerged out of slavery in a shared legacy with Charleston (South Carolina) Methodist Episcopal Church in 1791. Due to disputes over

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17

2015

Tarik, the Moor, invades Spain.

On April 30, 711AD General Tarik al Gibral, a Nafza Berber after whom the famed Rock of Gibralter is named, crossed to Andalus (Spain under the Visigoths) with a force of seven thousand troops. After several battles in which the Visigoths were completely routed, the Moorish-Berber-Arab force

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Apr

30

1971

Guinea

An outbreak of Ebola hit Guinea in March 2014 and spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. By September, is estimated to have killed about 430 people in Guinea, and there were nearly 650 suspected and confirmed cases of it in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In late August, the

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Brown, Jesse (1944-2002)

Jesse Brown, wounded veteran and government official, was born on March 27, 1944 to Lucille Brown in Detroit, Michigan. His single-parent mother raised him in Chicago. Brown first attended Roosevelt University in Chicago and later graduated from Kennedy- King College in that same

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Dec

18

1992

G.W. Murray patents Planter

Murray, G. W. Planter June 05, 1894 Patent No. 520,887

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Jun

5

1894

J.W. Smith patents Lawn sprinkler

Smith, J. W. Lawn sprinkler May 04, 1897 Patent No. 581,785

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May

4

1897

A.B. Blackburn patents pail signal

Blackburn,A.B. patents Railway signal Jan 10,1888 Patent # 375,362

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Jan

10

1888

(1859) William Lloyd Garrison, “On the Death of John Brown”

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was executed by Virginia authorities in Charles Town for his ill-fated raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. Soon after word of his death reached Boston, William Lloyd Garrison, the leading abolitionist in the United States at the time, gave this stirring

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Dec

2

1859

John Brown held antislavery convention, which was

John Brown held antislavery convention, which was attended by twelve whites and thirty-four Blacks, at Chatham, Canada. The Escape, first play by an American Black, Published by William Wells Brown.

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May

8

1858

H.H. Reynolds patents safety gate for bridge

Reynolds, H. H. Safely Gate for Bridges Oct. 07, 1890 Patent No. 437,937

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Oct

7

1890

Little Rock Crisis, 1957

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. One year later the Court reiterated its ruling calling on school districts throughout the United States to desegregate their public schools “with all deliberate

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T. J. Boyd awarded patent

T. J. Boyd, inventor, is awarded a patent for an apparatus for detaching horses from carriages.

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Mar

19

1872

Augustus Jackson, a Philadelphia confectioner, inventsice cream but does not r

Augustus Jackson, a Philadelphia confectioner, invents ice cream but does not receive a patent.

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Jan

0

1832

Henry Blair

Henry Blair was the second Black inventor issued a patent by the United States Patent Office. Born in 1807 in Glen Ross, Maryland, Blair was a free man, his first invention was a seed planter which enabled farmers to plant more corn utilizing less labor in a smaller period of time. He received

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Oct

14

1834

Thomas J.Martin is awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.

Thomas J. Martin is awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.

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Mar

26

1872

Inventor, AP Abourne was awarded patent for refining coconut oil, 1880

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27

1880

E. McCoy patents steam engine lubricator

McCoy, E. Lubricator for Steam Engines July 02, 1872 Patent No. 129,843

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Jul

2

1872

Three Blacks elected to major offices in Louisiana

Three Blacks elected to major offices in Louisiana elections: C.C Antoine, lieutenant governor; P.G. Deslonde, secretary of state; W.B. Brown, Superintendent of public education.

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Nov

4

1872

Rhode Island College is founded; later renamed BrownUniversity, after the Brow

Rhode Island College is founded; later renamed BrownUniversity, after the Brown brothers, who were wealthyNew England shippers who made a substantial profitfrom the African slave trade, Providence, RI.

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Jan

0

1764

Fred Jones

Fred McKinley Jones is certainly one of the most important Black inventors ever based on the sheer number of inventions he formulated as well as their

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and other American actions against Cuba as well as to President Kennedy s build-up in Italy and Turkey of U.S. strategic nuclear forces with

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Nat Turner.

In Southampton County, Virginia, on August 21-22, 1831, Nat Turner, a brilliant minister and moody slave, led the first slave revolt of magnitude. The revolt was crushed, but only after Turner and his band had killed some sixty whites and threw the South into panic. After hiding out, Turner was

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Oct

30

1831

Palmer Memorial Institute

Alice Freeman Palmer Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, founded by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, was renamed and incorporated as Palmer Memorial Institute.

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Nov

23

1907

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