NAACP report

CCHR Applauds State Acting on African American Teen Psychiatric Restraint Death

Mental Health Watchdog and Task Force Against Institutional Racism Leader say Michigan could potentially lead the way for national restraint death reform

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Cole, Nat “King” (1919–1965)

Jazz pianist and popular singer Nathaniel Adams Coles was born into a musical family in Montgomery, Alabama on March 17, 1919. His mother Perlina was a choir director in his father Edward’s Baptist church. His three brothers, Edward, Ike, and Freddy, became professional musicians. Cole also had

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Source: Black Past

Feb

15

1965

James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born

James Cameron

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Aug

7

1930

12-year-old “I Just Wanna Live” singer Keedron Bryant signs record deal with Warner

Now, he’s landed a record deal with Warner Records and released his song as a single, according to The Associated

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962

Many Americans are familiar with the now iconic images of James Meredith, the black student who desegregated the University of Mississippi in October 1962, surrounded by white U.S. marshals assigned to protect him and ensure that a U.S. Supreme Court desegregation order be enforced. Few of us are

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Source: Black Past

Top psychiatrist wants forensic facility to avoid Noel Chambers case repeat

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Psychiatric Association (JPA) Dr Earl Wright is appealing for the establishment of a forensic psychiatric facility to be at the forefront of the Government's agenda to avoid a recurrence of what took place with Noel Chambers, the elderly man who died at the Tower Street

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

As prices spike in Zimbabwe, is it on the edge again?

Prices of basic goods gallop every week as the value of the Zimbabwean dollar continues to tumble, pushing official annual inflation to 785.6% in

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Court frees Zimbabwe MP, activists accused of faking abduction

A Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker and two activists accused of faking their abduction and torture in May were on Friday freed on bail by a court, their party

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1847- )

Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church is the oldest African American church in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Like Wheat Street, First Congregational, and the King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, Bethel A.M.E. has been a religious, social, economic, and cultural pillar of the African

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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary

Nnamdi Azikiwe, by now the best know nationalist leader in Nigeria, addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its 50th anniversary celebration at the Polo Grounds, New York City, July 19, 1959. His speech appears

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Source: Black Past

Jul

19

1959

A Demonstration Led by NAACP

NAACP led protest demonstrations against the showing of the movie Birth of

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Dec

4

1915

Betty Shabazz

Betty Shabazz was the wife of Malcolm X, a prominent leader of the Nation of Islam. Her exact date of birth is not known, but it is believed to be May 28, 1934. She was born in Georgia to unwed teenage parents named Ollie Mae Sanders and Shelman Sandlin, and raised in Detroit. By some accounts, her

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Source: Black History Resources

Seattle School Boycott (1966)

On Thursday March 31 and Friday April 1, 1966, thousands of Seattle Public School students boycotted schools in the Central District, Seattle Washington’s African American community, to protest the de facto segregation that they believed was racially

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who was born on the 4th February 1913. She was popularly known as “The first lady of civil rights” and the “mother of the freedom movement”. She became prominent after she refused to move from her

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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church [Montgomery] (1883-- )

The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was built in 1883 on the corner of Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street in Montgomery, Alabama. The church served as a meeting place and planning hub for some of the most influential actions of the Civil Rights movement throughout the first half of the twentieth

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Source: Black Past

Burton, Phillip (1915-1995)

Philip Burton was a Seattle lawyer for more than 40 years, a voice for the disadvantaged, and a fighter for reforms to end discrimination in education, housing and employment. His legal actions led to the desegregation of Seattle Public Schools. Fighting for civil rights was his lifelong activity

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Source: Black Past

Oberlin College (1833- )

Oberlin College which was named Oberlin Collegiate Institute until 1850, is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay Sipherd and Philo P. Stewart founded the institution as a college preparatory institute to promote Christian values. Oberlins

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Trump Tweets Video with "White Power" Chant, Then Deletes It | Dallas Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white

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Source: Dallas Weekly

(1900) W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World,”

W.E.B. Dubois would eventually emerge as a founder of the NAACP, a leading human rights activists and the most important African American intellectual of the 20th Century. However those developments lay in the future when the 32-year-old DuBois gave the closing address at the first Pan African

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Source: ThoughtCo

Jul

25

1900

DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)

Argued February

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Wells, Barry L. (1942- )

Ambassador Barry L. Wells has had an extensive career in international affairs with the United States Foreign Service after an earlier period as a university professor and administrator. Wells was born in 1942 in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from East High School in that city in 1959. He received

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Source: Black Past

SOS holds Juneteenth march across the bridge in Selma

Some of the speakers at the rally in Voting Rights Memorial Park after march across the bridge

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Alcorn State University (1871-- )

Founded in 1871, Alcorn State University is the oldest historically black land-grant institution in the United States and the second oldest state supported institution in the state of Mississippi. The college is located outside of Lorman in Claiborne County. Alcorn was founded in vacated Oakland

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AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter groups plan national convention | The Atlanta Voice

Spurred by broad public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of Black activists from across the U.S. will hold a virtual convention in August to produce a new political agenda that seeks to build on the success of the protests that followed George

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”

Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University. Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School. After graduation he practiced in Boston. By the 1880s Grimke

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Source: Black Past

Merlie Evers-Williams born.

3/1/1933: On this day Merlie Evers-Williams , who will become a civil rights activist and the first woman to head the NAACP, is born.

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Mar

1

1933

Some three hundred Blacks and whites met at the

Some three hundred Blacks and whites met at the United Charities Building in New York City at the first NAACP conference, May 31 and June 1.

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May

31

1909

Walter F. White honored by NAACP

Walter F. White, an Atlanta-born writer and civil rights leader, was honored by the NAACP in New York City for his work as the organizations Executive Secretary, his investigations of lynchings, and his lobbying for a federal anti-lynching law.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jul

2

1937

Oden, Ron (1950- )

Ron Oden is the first African American and the first openly gay man to hold the office of Mayor of Palm Springs, California. Born on March 21, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, Oden attended Oakwood College (now University) in Huntsville, Alabama where he received a Bachelor of Arts in History, Sociology

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Source: Black Past

Mar

21

1950

Nigeria

Nigerias election commission postponed for six weeks presidential elections scheduled for Feb. 14 after the military said it could not protect voters in the northeast from Boko Haram. Some questioned if the decision was influenced by President Jonathan, whose victory was by no means

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