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Walter Payton - Birthday

He was born in Columbia, Mississippi on July 25, 1953 to Peter and Alyne Payton.

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Jul

25

1953

Algiers Motel Incident (1967)

The Algiers Motel Incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, two days after the Detroit Race Riot began. The incident started when Army National Guardsman Ted Thomas reported hearing gunshots at the Algiers Motel Annex. Detroit Police, Michigan State Police, and other National

Source: Black Past

Jul

25

1967

Emmett Till was an African American boy, who was murdered by two white men at the age of 14. His murder was one of the driving forces of the Civil Rights Movement. Till was born on July 25, 1941 to Mamie and Louis Till in Chicago, Illinois. He was nicknamed “Bobo” as a child and was

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Jul

25

1941

Moore's Ford Lynching

During the late afternoon of the 25th of July 1946 four African-Americans were shot dead by a lynch mob at Moores Ford, Walton county, Georgia, about eight miles from the town of Monroe. The grotesquely sprawled bodies of the victims--the Coroner said at least sixty bullets were pumped into

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Jul

25

1946

Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Mama” (1926-1984)

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was a blues singer and songwriter whose recordings of “Hound Dog” and “Ball ‘n’ Chain” later were transformed into huge hits by Elvis Presley and Janis

Source: Black Past

Jul

25

1984

Abel, Elijah (1810-1884) - Birthday

Elijah Abel, early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was born on July 25, 1810 in Washington County, Maryland to Andrew and Delilah Abel, likely in bondage.

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Jul

25

1810

Dennis Hightower is promoted to president

Dennis Hightower is promoted to president of Disney Consumer Products-Europe/Middle East.

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Jul

25

1991

(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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Jul

25

1900

Black Enterprise publisher Earl G. Graves a

Black Enterprise publisher Earl G. Graves and Magic Johnson sign an agreement to purchase Pepsi-Cola of Washington, D.C., becoming the largest minority controlled Pepsi-Cola franchise in the country

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Jul

25

2002

First warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon was launched in Qu

First warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon was launched in Quincy, MA, 1943

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Jul

25

1943

Buffalo Soldiers

General Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, dedicated the Buffalo Soldiers Monument at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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Jul

25

1992

Washington, Maurice E. (1956- )

Maurice E. Washington is a Reno, Nevada businessman and pastor who is best known as a former Republican member of the Nevada State

Source: Black Past

Jul

25

1956

Liberty Life Insurance Company

Liberty Life Insurance Company, a forerunner to Supreme Life Insurance Company, at one time one of the largest African American owned insurance companies in the nation, is founded by Frank L. Gillespie

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Jul

25

1921

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where Blacks were used in experiments with sy

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where Blacks were used in experiments with syphilis, admitted to by US government officials, 1972

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Jul

25

1972

Emmett Till , in full Emmett Louis Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 1955, Money, Miss.), African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights

Source: Brittanica

Jul

25

1941

Inventor of the gas mask, Garrett T Morgan, rescues six from gas-filled tunnel i

Inventor of the gas mask, Garrett T Morgan, rescues six from gas-filled tunnel in Cleveland, Ohio, 1916

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Jul

25

1916

Palmer, Ronald DeWayne (1932-2014)

Ronald DeWayne Palmer, U.S. ambassador to three nations—Togo, Malaysia, and Mauritius—was born on May 22, 1932, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Bordeaux in France from 1954 to 1955 and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Howard University in 1955. He received an

Source: Black Past

Jul

25

1987

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