Black Facts for July 26th

National Bar Association incorporated
National Bar Association incorporated.
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Jul
26
1926
Liberia
Liberia /l aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə/  (  listen), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi) and has a population of
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Jul
26
1847
Frederick Douglass was the only male to play a
Frederick Douglass was the only male to play a prominent role at the first Womans Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York. He seconded the womans suffrage motion introduced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Jul
26
1848
Spottiswood W. Robinson
Spottiswood W. Robinson, representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, dean of the Howard University Law School, member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Circuit Judge of the D.C. Circuit, born
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Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Jul
26
1916
Spingarn Medal: Carter G. Woodson
Spingarn Medal awarded to Carter G. Woodson for ten years devoted service in collecting and publishing the records of the Negro in America.
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Jul
26
1926
President Joseph Jenkins Roberts
President Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a native of Virginia, declared Liberia an independent republic.
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Jul
26
1847
Independence Day for the Republic of Liberia
Independence Day for the Republic of Liberia
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Jul
26
1997
Americo-Liberians
Americo-Liberiansare Liberians of African American descent. They trace their ancestry tofreeborn and formerly enslaved African Americans who immigrated to Liberiain the 19th
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Source: Black Past
Jul
26
1847
Whitney Houston - Death
Bobbi Brown was found unconscious in the bathtub of her home near Atlanta on January 31, 2015, in circumstances reminiscent of her mother’s death; she spent months in a medically-induced coma and died on July 26, 2015… Whitney Houston was the subject of a widespread false rumor in September of 2001
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Source: Fact Monster - Black History
Sponsored by National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAP) Boston Chapter
Jul
26
2015
Race riot, Philadelphia
Race riot, Philadelphia. Three whites and one Black were killed.
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Sponsored by Eastern Bank
Jul
26
1918
Douglas, H. Ford (1831-1865)
Captain H. Ford Douglas was born in Virginia in 1831 to a white man named William Douglas, and an enslaved mother named Mary.  He escaped from slavery sometime after his fifteenth birthday, and moved to
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Source: Black Past
Jul
26
1862
President Truman
President Truman issued Executive Order No. 9981 directing equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces.
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
Jul
26
1948
Patrick Francis Healy, first Black awarded Ph.D
Patrick Francis Healy, first Black awarded Ph.D. degree, passed final examination at Louvain in Belgium.
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Jul
26
1865
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