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First Black elected to Congress

First Black elected to Congress John W. Menard, defeated a white candidate, 5,107 to 2,833, in an election in Louisianas Second Congressional District to fill an unexpired term in the Fortieth Congress. U.S. Grant elected president with Black voters in the South providing the decisive margin. Grant

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Nov

3

1868

Moneta Sleet becomes the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his

Moneta Sleet becomes the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. and her daughter at her husbands funeral

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May

5

1969

Daniel Alexander Payne

On this date in 1893, Daniel A. Payne died. The sixth bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, Payne was the first African American ordained by the Lutheran Church in 1837. In 1856, he founded Wilberforce University, where he became the first Black president of a college in America. Payne

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Feb

24

1811

Congress helped Blacks in the military

Congress passed bill equalizing pay, arms, equipment and medical services of Black troops.

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Jun

15

1864

Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson,

Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belfonte and A. Phillip Randolph, participated in the Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington. Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, and the nine students who integrated Little Rockss Central High School were awarded

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Oct

25

1958

Army Brig. Gen. Sherian Grace CAdoria born.

Birthday of Army Brig. Gen. Sherian Grace Cadoria, in Marksville, Louisiana. A graduate of Southern University, Gen. Cadoria was the highest ranking African American woman officer in the US Armed Forces at the end of 1990.

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Jan

26

1940

Civil Rights Movement

On this day the African American community of Montgomery, Alabama voted unanimously to end its 385 day bus-boycott.

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Dec

20

1956

The First Black Psychic!

Shirley Ajayi was the first African American given a part on a television show as a psychic! The show lasted for about one year[actually six months] in Chicago, Illinois since the show was seasonal! Shirley started her career the minute her predictions came true! She was renamed Aura and hired to

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Sep

28

1986

Chicago's first African American mayor, Harold Washington, was born.

Chicagos first African American mayor, Harold Washington, was born.

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Apr

15

1922

Killings in Civil Rights demonstrations

Jonathan M. Daniels, white Episcopal seminary student from Massachusetts, killed and Richard F. Morrisroe, white Roman Catholic priest from Chicago, seriously wounded by shotgun blasts fired by white special deputy sheriff in Hayneville, Alabama. They were participating in civil rights

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Aug

12

1965

Zora Neale Hurston, writer/anthropologist born

Zora Neale Hurston

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Jan

7

1891

Richard Theodore Greener

Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University

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Jan

30

1844

Congress readmits Mississippi

Congress passed resolution readmitting Mississippi on condition that it would never change its constitution to disenfranchise Blacks.

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Feb

17

1870

Cowboy Willie "Bill" Pickett dies

World famous African American cowboy Willie Bill Pickett died in Ponca, Oklahoma, hospital of injuries sustained after he was kicked in the head by a horse on the Millers Brothers Fabulous 101 Ranch.

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Apr

2

1932

Four national chain stores announced

Four national chain stores announced on October 17 that counters in about 150 stores in 112 cities in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Oklahoma had been integrated.

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Mar

1

1960

Rev. George Leile

Rev. George Leile was the first African American to be ordained a Baptist minister in America. He was an early pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Silver Bluf, South Carolina. Curiously, he supported the British during the American Revolutionary war because of the Britishs promise to free

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Jan

0

1770

George H. White

George H. White, the only African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, (1896) and the first to introduce an antilynching bill, born. He also founded Whitesboro, N,J, as a haven for African Americans escaping Southern racism.

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Dec

18

1852

A commemorative stamp of Martin Luther King, Jr. is issued by the U.S. Postal Se

A commemorative stamp of Martin Luther King, Jr. is issued by the U.S. Postal Service as part of its Black Heritage USA commemorative series. The stamp of the slain civil rights leader is the second in the series.

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Jan

13

1979

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and civil rights activist was born in New Haven CT

Congressman Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and civil rights activist was born in New Haven, Conn.

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Nov

29

1908

Cardiss R. Collins

Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.

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Jun

5

1973

Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago

Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet Margaret T. Burroughs in 1961, the DuSable is one of the oldest African American museums in the U.S.

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Sep

17

1991

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

In 1983, Doctors Elmer and Joanne Martin opened a wax museum, the first of its kind in the nation, as well as, Baltimore, Maryland of African Americans leaders that were made of

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Jan

0

1983

The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical

The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School (later Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science) is chartered in Los Angeles. It is the only African American focused medical school west of the Mississippi

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Aug

2

1966

Wellington Webb is elected mayor

City Auditor Wellington Webb is elected mayor of Denver, Colo. He is the first African American to hold the post.

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Jun

18

1991

Fourteenth Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughterhouse cases began process of diluting the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court said the Fourteenth Amendment protected federal civil rights, not Civil rights heretofore belonging exclusively to the states.

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Apr

14

1873

White Democrats attacked demonstrators

White Democrats attacked demonstrators, who were marching from Albany to Camilla, Ga., and killed nine Blacks. Several whites were wounded.

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Sep

19

1868

Miss America

Vanessa Williams is the 1st African American Miss America to be crowned.

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Sep

17

1983

Founder of Pro-Line

Comer Cottrell, founder and president of Pro-Line Corporation (1970), the largest African American owned business in the Southwest and the first African American to be part owner of a major league baseball team (1989), the Texas Rangers, born

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Dec

7

1931

Dorothy V. McClendon--Microbiologist

Born: 1924

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Jan

0

1924

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

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