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Jones, David “Deacon” (1938-2013)

National Football League star David “Deacon” Jones was a dominant player in the League. During Jones’ years on the football field he singlehandedly revolutionized the defensive end position. Throughout his fourteen-year stint in the NFL Jones managed to play in 190 games, missing only

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2013

Josephine Baker - Birthday

Dates: June 3, 1906 -- April 12, 1975

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Jun

3

1906

Sue K. Brown (1948- )

Ambassador Sue Katherine Brown is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. In 2011 President Barack Obama nominated her to become the U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro, the first African American to hold this post and only the second U.S. ambassador since

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Jun

3

2006

Booker, Cory (1969- ) - Death

On December 20, 2012 Booker became a candidate for the United States Senate seat to succeed Senator Frank Lautenberg who had died in office on June 3, 2012.

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Jun

3

2012

Hayes, Roland (1887-1976) - Birthday

The son of former slaves, Roland Hayes, born June 3, 1887 in Curryville, Georgia, became the first African American male to become an internationally acclaimed concert vocalist.

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Jun

3

1887

David Jones, also known as Deacon Jones, was a former professional American football player born on December 9, 1938 in Eatonville, Florida. He was an active sportsman during his childhood and played football, baseball, and basketball. He developed a tumor in his thigh as a teenager which he had to

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Jun

3

2013

Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago)

Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago), the first old-line legal reserve company organized by Blacks in the North, incorporated. U.S. Supreme Court (Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia) banned segregation in interstate bus travel.

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Jun

3

1919

Curtis Mayfield, singer born

Curtis Mayfield was born on the 3rd of june 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, where he quickly

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Jun

3

1942

Fugitive slave arrested in Boston

Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, was arrested in Boston. His master refused an offer of $1200 made by Boston citizens for his freedom.

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Jun

3

1854

Charles R. Drew was born on this day.

Charles R. Drew was born on this day.

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Jun

3

1904

Fourth national Black convention met

Fourth national Black convention met in Philadelphia with sixty-two delegates from eight states. Abraham D. Shadd of Pennsylvania was elected president.

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Jun

3

1833

Josephine Baker born

Josephine Baker

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Jun

3

1906

Charles Drew - Birthday

Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.

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Jun

3

1904

Wesley A. Brown

Wesley A. Brown became the first Black graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy.

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Jun

3

1949

Florence Price, composer born - Death

Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florence's mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.

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3

1953

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who later became a Civil Rights activist. Her birth name was Freda Josephine McDonald and she was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother used to be a dancer as well, but she gave up her aspirations in order to raise her children. Her father

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Jun

3

1906

Harvey, Charles (1860-1937)

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in March 1860, Charles Henry Harvey was the youngest of nineteen children of Albert and Elsy (Brewer) Harvey. Albert and Elsy were married on Valentine’s Day in 1839 in Halifax County, North Carolina, where their first child, Jesse, was born a few months

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Jun

3

1937

Jack Cope , byname of Robert Knox Cope (born June 3, 1913, Mooi River, South Africa—died May 1991, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England), South African writer best known for his short stories and novels about South African

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Jun

3

1913

Roland Hayes, first African American to give a recital in Bostons Symphony Hall, born

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Jun

3

1877

Charles Drew, Inventor of the Blood Bank

At a time when millions of soldiers were dying on battlefields across Europe, the invention of Dr. Charles R. Drew saved countless lives. Drew realized that separating and freezing the component parts of blood would enable it to be safely reconstituted later. This technique led to the development

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Jun

3

1904

Miles Vandehurst Lynk,

Miles Vandehurst Lynk, founder of the first African American medical journal and organizer of the National Medical Association, born.

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Jun

3

1871

Josephine Baker: French Resistance and the CIvil Rights Movement - Birthday

Early Life Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906.

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Jun

3

1906

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