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Feb

2

1862

Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana by five ministers including Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, Fred Shuttlesworth and C.K. Steele. Dr. King was the founding president, Abernathy president emeritus and Rep. Walter

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

10

1957

Blacks Holding Elective Offices

Joint Center for Political Studies reported that 2991 Blacks held elective offices in 45 states and the District of Columbia, compared with 2621 in April, 1973, and 1185 in 1969. The Center reported 108 Black mayors. Michigan had the largest number of Black elected officials (194), followed by

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

22

1981

Fields, Cleo (1962- )

Cleo Fields, politician, lawyer, and United States Representative from Louisianas Fourth Congressional District (1993-97), was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on November 22, 1962. At four years old, Fields lost his father, Isidore Fields, a dockworker, in a car crash. His mother, Alice

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Source: Black Past

Nov

22

1962

World's Record Holder

Edward 'Ned' Gourdin (1897-1966), as a Harvard athlete, set a new world's record in the running broad jump - 25 feet, 3 inches - the first human to leap beyond 25 feet. A graduate of Cambridge Latin High and Harvard Law School (1924) he was crowned National Amateur Athletic Union Junior 100-yard

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

(1996) California Proposition 209

This initiative measure is submitted to the people in accordance with the provisions of Article II, Section 8 of the

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Source: Black Past

King, Horace (1807-1885) - Birthday

Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in West Georgia, Northern Alabama and northeast Georgia in the period between the 1830s and 1870s.

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Source: Black Past

Sep

8

1807

California and Wisconsin Special Elections: What to Watch For

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, voters in California’s 25th Congressional District will choose the successor to former Representative Katie Hill, and Wisconsin voters in the state’s Seventh District will look to fill the seat left by former Representative Sean

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Source: Unpublished Black History

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept African Americans as me

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept African Americans as members.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

14

1958

Walter Fauntroy takes office as the first elected

Walter Fauntroy takes office as the first elected Congressional representative from the District of Columbia since Reconstruction.

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Apr

19

1971

Hall, Katie Beatrice (1938-2012)

Democratic representative Katie Hall was elected to the United States Congress in 1983. Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi in 1938, she attended Mississippi Valley State University and Indiana University before teaching in the public schools of Gary Indiana. Hall was elected to the

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Source: Black Past

Feb

20

2012

Uganda: Gang Attacks Two Police Posts, Take Three Guns

A gang of suspected thugs operating in Eastern parts of the country raided two police posts and took three

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Source: allAfrica.com

Dorothy Height born

Birthday of Dorothy Irene Height in Richmond, Virginia. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than three decades, organized a successful drive to place a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in a District of Columbia park. Once erected, the statue became the first of an African

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Mar

24

1912

President Hayes appointed Frederick Douglass

President Hayes appointed Frederick Douglass marshal of District of Columbia.

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Mar

18

1877

1st Annual Almanac

Mathematician Benjamin Banneker served on commission which surveyed the District of Columbia. Benjamin Banneker issued his first annual almanac.

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Aug

22

1791

Paterson, David A. (1954- )

David A. Paterson, sworn in as Governor on March 17, 2008, is the first legally blind American Governor, the first black Governor of New York State, and only the fourth black Governor of any

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Source: Black Past

Mar

17

2008

Paige, Roderick Raynor (1933- )

Roderick Raynor Paige, the first African American and the first school superintendent to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Education, was born on June 17, 1933 in Monticello, Mississippi. The eldest of five children, Paige was born to his mother Sophie, a librarian, and father, Raynor

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Source: Black Past

Racial Imbalance Act

The Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act, spearheaded by Boston's African-American community, was passed in 1965, making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to outlawde facto segregation in a school district.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Walter E. Fauntroy born

Walter E. Fauntroy was born in Washington, D.C. He went on to become a District of Columbia delegate to the House of Representatives.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

6

1933

Smith, Bessie (1894-1937)

Along with Ma Rainey and Mamie Smith, singer Bessie Smith helped pioneer the genre of blues music and propel it into popular culture. Her early death at the age of 43 cut short a career that influenced the direction of American music and contributed to the success of African Americans in the

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Source: Black Past

Sep

26

1937

1:33:23 The Politics of Black Women's Hair Symposium - Late Session

Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America - Duration: 58:42. University of California Television (UCTV) 128,000 views

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Georgia's 5th District U.S. Congress Representative John Lewis Will Deliver The 33rd Morehouse School of Medicine Commencement Address

Civil rights icon and Georgia’s 5th district U.S. Congressman John Lewis will deliver the 33rd commencement address for Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) at 9:00 a.m. on May 20, 2017, at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College. Lewis will receive an

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Source: Savoy Network

Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District

Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

28

1871

Ballance, Frank W., Jr. (1942 - )

Frank W. Ballance, Jr., was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2004, representing the 1st Congressional District in North Carolina. Prior to his tenure as a member of Congress, Ballance served in the North Carolina State House of Representatives as well as its

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Source: Black Past

Shirley Chisholm

Name at birth: Shirley Anita St. Hill

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

10 Racist Supreme Court Rulings in U.S. History

When a slave petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for his freedom, the Court ruled against him—also ruling that the Bill of Rights didnt apply to African Americans. If it did, the majority ruling argued, then African Americans would be permitted the full liberty of speech in public and in private, to

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Source: ThoughtCo

(William) Manning Marable

May 13, 1950

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Apr

1

2011

Sewell, Terri (1965- )

Terryinca “Terri” Sewell, the current U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 7th district, was born January 1, 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama to Andrew and Nancy Sewell. Sewell grew up in Selma, Alabama where both of her parents were employed by the local school district. Her

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Source: Black Past

Nov

7

2010

Diggs, Charles (1922–1998)

Charles Diggs was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922. His father was Charles Coles Diggs and his mother was Mayme Jones Diggs. Young Diggs had an upper middle class background; his father, a prominent mortician and real estate developer, served in the Michigan State Senate. Diggs eventually took

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Langston Hughes born

Langston Hughes, poet, novelist and playwright was born in Joplin, Missouri. He attended Columbia and Lincoln universities, graduating from the latter. A famed poet, Hughes received numerous honors including his election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Spingarn Medal

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Jan

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1998

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