Looters raid Nigeria food warehouse as unrest spreads

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Jul

3

1775

Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in the police forc

Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in the police forces 165 year history.

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Sep

6

1988

Philip Emeagwali

Inventor Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria

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Aug

23

1954

First Aboriginal Senator Chosen

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May

23

1971

Dr. Herman Branson -- Physicist, Chemist

Born: August 14, 1914

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Aug

14

1914

Ghana became an independent state

March 6th, 1957, the Gold Coast gained its independence from Great

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Mar

6

1957

The Freeman's Bureau.

The Freemans Bureau was established by Congress on March 3, 1865. The bureau was designed to protect the interests of former slaves. This included helping them to find new employment and to improve educational and health facilities. In the year that followed the bureau spent $17,000,000

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Mar

3

1865

Spottiswood W. Robinson

Spottiswood W. Robinson, representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, dean of the Howard University Law School, member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Circuit Judge of the D.C. Circuit, born

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Jul

26

1916

Slavery

The U.S. Supreme Court declared Joseph Cinquez and

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Mar

9

1999

Survivors returned to Africa

Thirty-five Amistad survivors returned to Africa.

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Nov

25

1841

African American Women College Presidents

On July 1, 1987, for the first time in history, there were three African American women serving as Presidents of Four Year Colleges and Universities in America.They were - Dr. Niara Sudarkasa- President of Lincoln University in Pennslyvania; Dr. Johnetta Cole, President of Spelman College in

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Jul

1

1987

USBA Welterweight Title

Thomas Hit Man Hearns wins the vacant USBA Welterweight title. This is one of five weight classes that he has won a boxing title making him the first Black to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

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Mar

2

1980

Dr. Harold D. West

Dr. Harold D. West is named President of Meharry Medical College

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Jun

14

1952

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson permanently retired from boxing on this day with six victories in title bouts to his credit -- more than any other fighter in history.

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Dec

10

1965

Cassius Clay Becomes Muhammad Ali

On this day, the Kentucky boxer known to all as Cassius Clay, changed his name to Muhammad Ali as he accepted Islam and rejected Christianity. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and in peace...Im not a Christian anymore.

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Feb

26

1964

Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President of Senegal.

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Sep

5

1960

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign for President of the U.S.

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Jan

25

1972

Pressure From Congress

Pressure From Congress: After the Union Army suffered a series of military defeats in 1861 and 1862, pressure mounted on Lincoln to use African Americans as soldiers. Once again African American soldiers came to the rescue of America. As Charles Summer put it: I do not say carry the war into

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Aug

6

1861

First Black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson successfully defended his heavy

First Black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson successfully defended his heavyweight championship by knocking out Jim The Great White Hope Jeffries, who had come out of retirement to win back the title for the White race

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Jul

4

1910

Educator Joseph Charles Price was born

Few Individuals have made the impact on their times or left the legacy to their beneficiaries as did Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone

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Feb

10

1854

Bo Diddley is born.

Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and

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Dec

30

1928

Floyd Patterson first professional fight took place. He was the first to hold th

Floyd Patterson first professional fight took place. He was the first to hold the world heavyweight championship twice.

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Sep

12

1952

First Black to acheive that rank in the US Army, Col Charles Young, dies in Lago

First Black to acheive that rank in the US Army, Col Charles Young, dies in Lagos, Nigeria, 1922

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Jan

8

1922

Boxer Larry Holmes born

Birthday of boxer Larry Holmes who began his career around age 13. He would win the heavyweight title in 1970 and defend it some 21 times.

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Nov

3

1949

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist, President of California State University, Fullerton, the first African American to hold such as position in the CSU system, born.

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Jan

17

1924

Askia Muhammad Toure

Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), established the Askia dynasty of

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Jan

0

Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman for

Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman for heavyweight boxing title in Zaire.

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Oct

30

1974

Born on this day: Robin Givens

Model/actress Robin Givens first gained national prominence as a regular on the TV series Head of the Class. From 1986 through 1991, Robin played Darlene Merriman, a prep-school type attending a high school honors program. She was married to boxing champ Mike Tyson; the marriage ended in divorce.

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Nov

27

1964

Nigeria proclaimed independent

Nigeria proclaimed independent.

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Oct

1

1960

Series of events in African American history

Between the years of 1500-1884, there was a series of events that happened in African American history. Between the 1500-1600s, there were slave revolts in the West Indies; from 1655-17-38, there was the war between the British and Maroons; in 1750, there was a British free trade in human flesh; in

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