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Blacks Denied Right to Fight for Country

President Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion. Lincoln administration rejected Black volunteers. For almost two years straight Black Americans fought for the right, as one humorist put it, to be kilt.

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Apr

15

1861

A. Philip Randolph - Birthday

Asa Philip Randolph was born on April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida, to a Methodist Minister, James Randolph.

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Apr

15

1889

Thomas W. Turner

Thomas W. Turner founder of the Federation of Colored Catholics and charter member of the NAACP dies at age 101

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Apr

15

1978

A. Philip Randolph - Birthday

Randolph was born April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida,[3] the second son of the Rev.

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Apr

15

1889

World Middleweight Title

Thomas Hit Man Hearns wins the World Middleweight title. This is one of five weight classes that he has won a boxing title making him the first Black to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

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Apr

15

1985

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organized by young activists at a meeting on the Shaw University campus.

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Apr

15

1960

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

Byron R. White , in full Byron Raymond White (born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.—died April 15, 2002, Denver), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court

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Apr

15

2002

Pacific Bound: California’s 1852 Fugitive Slave Law

In 1852, California legislators passed a harsh fugitive slave law that condemned dozens of African American migrants to deportation and lifelong slavery. Historian Stacey L. Smith examines the legal travails of three accused fugitive slaves to illuminate the social relations of slavery in gold rush

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Apr

15

1852

Death of Lincoln

Death of Abraham Lincoln, Washington.

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Apr

15

1865

About African-American Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek - Birthday

Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek (born April 15, 1926 in Harlem, New York) worked behind the scenes on some of the largest architectural projects in America.

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Apr

15

1926

Zephaniah, Benjamin (1958 - )

Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, playwright, novelist and activist, was born on April 15, 1958, the first of eight children, in Birmingham, England. Zephaniah grew up in Wandsworth until the age of nine when his mother, a Jamaican nurse, fled his father, a postman from Barbados. Leaving behind his twin

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Apr

15

1958

South Africa's "truth commission", looking into abuses during the apartheid era,

South Africas truth commission, looking into abuses during the apartheid era, began its public hearings.

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Apr

15

1996

Washington, Walter Edward (1915-2003) - Birthday

Walter Edward Washington, attorney and politician, was born in Dawson, Georgia, on April 15, 1915 to Willie Mae and William L.

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Apr

15

1915

Sculptor Elizabeth Catlett born

Lithographer and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington, DC. Catlett was the first woman to teach sculpture at the School of Fine Arts, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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Apr

15

1919

California Fugitive Slave Law adopted

The California Fugitive Slave Law, introduced earlier by state Senator Henry A. Crabb, was adopted by the State Legislature. It authorized any slave owner claiming a runaway to obtain warrant for the slaves arrest.

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Apr

15

1850

Booker T. Washington gains honorary degree

Booker T. Washington receives an honorary degree from Harvard University.

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Apr

15

1896

Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) - Birthday

Smith was born into poverty most likely on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to William Smith, a preacher, and Laura Smith.

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Apr

15

1894

Jackie Robinson

Born: 1/31/1919 Cairo, GeorgiaDied: 10/24/1972 Stamford, ConnecticutJackie Robinson was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers

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Apr

15

1947

Benjamin L. Hooks

Benjamin L. Hooks , in full Benjamin Lawson Hooks (born Jan. 31, 1925, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.—died April 15, 2010, Memphis), American jurist, minister, and government official who was executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1977 to

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Apr

15

2010

Asa Philip Randoplh born

Asa Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was born in Crescent City, Florida.

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Apr

15

1899

Zimbabwe, gains its independence

Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia gains its independence.

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Apr

15

1980

Harold Washington - Birthday

Early life and education [ edit ] Harold Lee Washington was born on April 15, 1922 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois,[4] to Roy and Bertha Washington.

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Apr

15

1922

Washington, Harold (1922 – 1987) - Birthday

Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago.

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Apr

15

1922

African Freedom Day Declared

African Freedom Day is declared at the All-African Peoples Conference in Accra, Ghana.

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Apr

15

1959

Bessie Smith was a blues and jazz vocalist, who was extremely popular in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Laura and William Smith. Her father was a Baptist preacher who died shortly after her birth, and she was raised by her mother along with her

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Apr

15

1894

Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first licensed woman

Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first licensed woman architect in the U.S. and the first African American woman to become a fellow in the American Institute of Architects, born.

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Apr

15

1928

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