Wehby: Diaspora of strategic importance to Jamaica

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Dec

4

1807

U.S. Congress pass Civil Rights Bill banning racial discrimination in sale or rental of approximately 80 per cent of the nations housing.

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Apr

10

1968

James M. Nabrit Jr.

James M. Nabrit Jr. named ambassador and assigned to the UN delegation.

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Aug

25

1965

Slavery

The U.S. Supreme Court declared Joseph Cinquez and

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Mar

9

1999

Andrew Young born

Andrew Young, former US United Nations ambassador, former congressman and former mayor of Atlanta, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Mar

12

1932

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassinated

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (46), thirty-fifth president of the United States, assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

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Nov

22

1963

Marucie Bishop wins Grenadian government

In the island Republic of Grenada, the New Jewel Movement, headed by U.S. educated Maurice Bishop, ousted the government of Prime Minister Gairy.

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Mar

13

1979

Bacon's Rebellion

African Americans fought in the first armed rebellion against British authority in the colonies, Bacons Rebellion, in 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the rising generation of colonial planters who resented British rule and, particularly, the British protection of Indian lands that lay just

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Mar

26

2002

First Black World Title

George Dixon, born July 29, 1870 in Africville, (Halifax), Nova Scotia; becomes the first Black to hold a WORLD title in boxing. George beat Nunc Wallace in the Pelican Club in England & recieved $4,250.00 - he was the only Black in the Club!

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Jul

29

1870

Korematsu v. United States

Korematsu v. US

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Dec

18

1944

Black Anti-Slavery Crusaders

There were a host of free Blacks who struck out against slavery. Many of these were

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Jan

0

Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born

Katherine Dunham

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Jun

22

1912

Anti-lynching Bill Proposed

African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.

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Jan

20

1900

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/activist

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune (79), educator and civil rights leader, Daytona

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May

18

1955

Andrew Young resigned under pressure

Andrew Young resigned under pressure as UN ambassador after unauthorized meeting with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Resignation created a storm of controversy and divided the Black and Jewish communities.

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Aug

15

1979

Secretary of war authorized Gen

Secretary of war authorized Gen. Rufus Saxton to arm up to five thousand slaves.

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Aug

25

1862

A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus

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Jan

0

1815

Marcus Garvey arrives in US from Jamaica

Marcus Mosiah Garvey arrives in America from Jamaica.

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Mar

23

1916

Ota Benga, African native kept in zoo, kills self

An African native once kept in a Bronx zoo, Ota Benga, commits suicide. In 1906 the crowds thronged the monkey house exhibit at the Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park). Here were mans evolutionary ancestors - monkeys, chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, an orangutan named Dohung and a African of

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Mar

20

1916

Maj

Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves contraband of war.

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May

24

1861

Richard Parsons

Richard Parsons, CEO of Dime Savings Bank, the first African American CEO of a large non minority U.S. savings institution, born.

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Apr

4

1942

Alabama Educational Television Commission

Alabama Educational Television Commission has its application for license renewal denied by the Federal Communications Commission because of racial discrimination against African Americans in employment and programming.

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Jan

8

1975

Did You Know That In...

1675 - There are 100,000 African slaves in the West Indies, compared to 5,000 in the North American colonies.

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Jan

0

1675

Askia Muhammad Toure

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

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Jan

0

Fort Negro

Garcia And Fort Negro: After the War of 1812, over three hundred African Americans occupied an abandoned British fort on the banks of the Apalachicola River in what is now Florida. Known as Fort Negro, it was headed by an African American man named Garcia. The heavily armed fort became a symbol of

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Jul

27

1816

William L. Dawson

William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago. Black and white advocates of direct, nonviolent action organizing the Sleeping Car Porters under the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and securing recognition for them; and because of his fearless, determined mobilization of mass opinion that

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Nov

3

1942

Jan Earnest Matzeliger

Jan Earnest Matzeliger was born on September 15, 1852 in

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Sep

15

1852

Slavery

New England seamen enter slave trade when Capt. William Pierce sails to the West Indies and exchanges enslaved Native Americans for Africans.

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Jan

0

1639

Free Africa Society organized

January 28, 1787 - Free Africa Society organized in Philadelphia.

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Jan

28

1787

30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof's "Race Against Time

30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldofs Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.

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May

25

1986

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