Murray, George Washington (1853–1926) - Birthday

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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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Aiken, Kimberly (1975- ) - Birthday

Aiken was born on October 11, 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina to Charles and Valerie Aiken.

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Oct

11

1975

Macon Bolling Allen: First African-American Licensed Attorney

Macon Bolling Allen was not only the first African-American licensed to practice law in the United States, he was also the first to hold a judicial

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Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century

In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting goals of African Creoles, African Americans, and British and American colonizationists in the fate of the Rio Pongo Valley along the West Coast of Africa. Mouser

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History of African Americans in Detroit

In 2002, within the city of Detroit there were 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of the population.[1] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people.[2] Southfield had a black population

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Bill Monroe , byname of William Smith Monroe (born Sept. 13, 1911, Rosine, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 9, 1996, Springfield, near Nashville, Tenn.), American singer, songwriter, and mandolin player who invented the bluegrass style of country

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Althea Gibson - Birthday

She was born on August 25, 1927 in South Carolina.

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Aug

25

1927

Althea Gibson - Biography of Tennis Pioneer

Tennis, which first came to the United States in the late 19th century, by the middle of the 20th century had become part of a culture of health and fitness. Public programs brought tennis to children in poor neighborhoods, though those children couldnt dream of playing in the elite tennis

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When a president’s words have consequences

Trump once more proved the hard-political truism that when presidents speak out on a heinous racial killing or violence, their words have weighty

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Top African-American Women in Tennis

In 1950, Althea Gibson made history when she became the first African-American to play in an international tennis tournament. Six years later, Gibson made history when she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title at the French

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Aug

25

1927

Black Indians in the United States

Black Indians are people of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, who have strong ties to Native American culture.[2] Many Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands, such as the Narragansett, Pequot, Lumbee and Cherokee, have a significant degree of African

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Harriet Tubman Biography - Life and Accomplishments

Harriet Tubman (1821 - 1913) led over 200 slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Contemporaries called her Moses and General Tubman in praise of her bravery and leadership. Frederick Douglass lauded Tubmans courage by saying, Excepting John Brown -- of sacred memory

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Sep

17

1849

Justices OK James Brown's Dying Wish: Funding Needy Kids Education

In an unanimous ruling on Wednesday, the state’s justices wrote that Tomi Rae Hynie, a former partner of Brown’s who claimed to be his wife, failed to annul a previous marriage, and therefore did not have a right to his multimillion-dollar

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Morris College [South Carolina] (1908-- )

Morris College is a private, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Sumter, South Carolina. The college is 45 miles from Columbia, South Carolina. Housed on 33 acres, Morris has 24

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Aug

14

1961

List of African-American neighborhoods

List of African-American neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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Soul food is a variety of cuisine originating in the Southeastern United States. It is common in areas with a history of slave-based plantations and has maintained popularity among the Black American and American Deep-South cotton state communities for centuries; it is now the most common regional

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Segars, Joseph Monroe (1938–2014) - Birthday

Ambassador Joseph Monroe Segars was born in Hartsville, South Carolina on November 6, 1938.

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Nov

6

1938

Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creole people (or Krio people) is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone. The Creole people are descendants of freed African American, West Indian and Liberated African slaves who settled in the Western Area of Sierra Leone between 1787 and about 1885. The colony was established by the

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Gantt, Harvey Bernard (1943- ) - Birthday

Gantt, architect and politician, was born January 14, 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina to Christopher and Wilhelmenia Gantt.

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14

1943

Winters, Lawrence (1915–1965) - Birthday

Lawrence Winters was born Lawrence Whisonant on November 12, 1915, in Kings Creek, South Carolina, one of three sons of Eliza Whisonant (née Smith) and Marion Frank Whisonant, a farmer.

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Nov

12

1915

Murray, George Washington (1853–1926) - Death

George Washington Murray died in Chicago on April 21, 1926 in Chicago.

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Apr

21

1926

Jesse Jackson Jr.

Jesse Jackson Jr. is a former African-American Democratic Congressman. From 1995 to 2012, he represented Illinois’s 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Moreover, his father was an eminent political figure who was a former presidential

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Mar

11

1965

Enslavement: 1619 to 1696

Historian Frances Latimer argues that enslavement happened one law at a time, one person at a time. As the American colonies grew throughout the 17th Century, human bondage transformed from indentured servitude to a life of

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Family of Black Teen Who Died During Boating Trip with Friends Doesn’t Believe His Death Was an Accident

The family of a South Carolina teen who died after a boat trip is publicly disputing authorities’ explanation for his

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(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

Nineteenth Century black conservative William Hannibal Thomas was a Civil War veteran, Reconstruction era South Carolina politician, and U.S. counsel to Portuguese Southwest Africa (Angola). He is most famous however as the author of the 1901 book, The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and

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ESPN's ‘The Last Dance’ shows Jordan's first retirement and Pippen's growth | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The critically acclaimed documentary “The Last Dance,” the story of legendary basketball player Michael Jordan and the 1997-1998 World Champion Chicago Bulls, debuted episodes 7 and 8 on Sunday night, May 10, on the ESPN

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Holmes, Benjamin M. (1846-1875)

Teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer, Benjamin M. Holmes was born a slave around 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina and bound as an apprentice to a black tailor. Holmes was eventually bought by a man named Kaylor, who employed him as a hotel clerk in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While

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Oct

9

1875

Harriet Tubman Facts: Underground Railroad and More

Harriet Tubman was a fugitive slave, underground railroad conductor, abolitionist, spy, soldier, Civil War, African American, nurse, known for her work with Underground Railroad, Civil War service, and later, her advocacy of civil rights and woman

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Mar

10

1913

(1867) The Reconstruction Acts

Chap. CLIII - An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States [Passed over President Johnsons veto March

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Charles Sumner , (born Jan. 6, 1811, Boston—died March 11, 1874, Washington, D.C.), U.S. statesman of the American Civil War period dedicated to human equality and to the abolition of

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Mar

11

1874

Harriet Tubman Biography: Later Years

Previous: 3: Civil War Service: Nurse, Scout, Spy

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Mar

10

1913

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