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Singer Roberta Flack born
b. 10 February 1937, Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Born into a musical family, Flack graduated from Howard University with a BA in music. She was discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by pianist Les McCann, who recommended her talents to Atlantic Records. Two classy
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Feb
10
1940
VISUAL VIEWPOINT: DEFUNDING IS NOTHING NEW – Daytona Times
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Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on
Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on ratification, abolished slavery in America. The vote in the House was 121 to 24.
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Jan
31
1865
Absalom Jones Birth
Absalom Jones, major leader of Black Pioneer period, born in slavery in Sussex, Delaware.
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Nov
6
1746
Blues singer Lady A sued by country band wanting to take the stage name - TheGrio
Last month the mega-successful band formerly known as Lady Antebellum announced its plans to change its name to Lady A,... View Article The post Blues singer Lady A sued by country band wanting to take the stage name appeared first on TheGrio.
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Dave, David Drake, was born a slave near Edgefield, South Carolina, c.1800. He d
Dave, David Drake, was born a slave near Edgefield, South Carolina, c.1800. He died after 1870, having enjoyed only a few years of freedom. Somehow Dave learned to read and to write a beautiful script. At an early age he was sent to the pottery works near Edgefield, where he became a master
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Jan
0
1800
Secession From the Union
Southern states believed the election of Lincoln as president meant the end to slavery. Immediately after the election in Novembet 1860, several states began holding conventions and debate secession from the Union. Before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded fron the
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Mar
4
1861
Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia
Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and a lecturer and editor.
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Feb
20
1895
Educator Joseph Charles Price was born
Few Individuals have made the impact on their times or left the legacy to their beneficiaries as did Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone
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Feb
10
1854
Who Was Juan de Oñate? A Look At The Conquistador's Violent Legacy In New Mexico : NPR
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VISUAL VIEWPOINT: OUR OWN WORST ENEMY – Daytona Times
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Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is the name of the criticall acclaimed novelist whose given name is Elaine Potter Richardson and who was born in St, John,s , Antigua in 1949. her novels include Lucy and The Autobiography of My Mother
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May
25
1949
Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, dies.
Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, dies. Born into slavery, she ran away form her owners after mistreatment by her masters wife. She petitioned successfully for her freedom, citing her knowledge of the Bill of Rights and the new constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in her argument that all men
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Dec
28
1829
Black Twitter Drags Lady Antebellum For Suing Black Blues Singer Lady A Over Her Name
"The group’s camp is trying to erase me.”
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Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery;passes law enslaving al
Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery; passes law enslaving all imported Africans; freeborn English women who marry black slaves are enslaved, as are the childred of such unions.
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Jan
0
1663
Colonies give Statutory Recognition
Massachusetts became the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery. Other colonies followed: Connecticut 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina. 1715; Georgia, 1750.
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Dec
1
1641
Death of Prince Hall
Death of Prince Hall, activist and Masonic leader, in
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Dec
4
1807
Touissant L'Ouverture, born
Birthday of Haitian revolutionary Pierre-Dominique Touissant LOverture. There had been slave revolts before: in the Caribbean, in South America, and in
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May
20
1743
The Dred Scott decision.
On March 6, 1857, the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court denied Blacks U.S. citizenship and denied the power of Congress to restrict slavery in any federal territory.
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Mar
6
1857
283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores
On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The
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Jul
18
1827
Virginia retires state song
Virginia House of Delegates votes unanimously to retire the state song, Carry me back to old virginia , a tune which glorifies slavery.
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Feb
17
1997
DuSable Abandons Chicago
On this date in 1800, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, frontier trader, fur trapper, farmer, businessman and father of Chicago sold all his property for $1,200 and left the area. He died 18 years later, almost penniless, and was buried in St. Charles, Missouri.
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May
7
1800
The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the
The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the shoe capital of the
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Mar
19
1883
George P. White
George P. White was an outspoken Republican political leader, two-term Congressman from the Black 2nd (northeastern North Carolina). He introduced the first anti-lynching legislation into the Congress (it was defeated), founded the first black bank, and, after leaving North Carolina in the wake of
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Nov
10
1898
Robert Edward Chambliss, a former KKK member is convicted of first degree murder
Robert Edward Chambliss, a former KKK member is convicted of first degree murder in connection with the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four African teenage women.
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Nov
18
1977
VISUAL VIEWPOINT: TRUMP TULSA RALLY TURNOUT – Florida Courier
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Reemployment Assistance Update - June 8 | The Orlando Advocate
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. As of June 7, DEO has paid 1,248,308 claimants a total of $4.6 billion ($4,618,940,050). PANDEMIC EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION: The Federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program is now available. This program, offered through the federal CARES Act and
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Slavery Abolishment
Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery. By 1783 slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law in 1780. Connecticut and Rhode Island barred slavery in 1784 and were followed by New York (gradual emancipation) and New
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Jul
2
1777
Cinque kidnapped
Cinque, origially Senghbe, the son of a Mende king, along with several other Africans, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba. Cinque and his companions will later carry out the famous successful revolt upon the slave ship Amistad.
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Jun
28
1839
Haile Selassie deposed by military leaders
Haile Selassie deposed by military leaders after fifty-eight years as the ruling monarch of Ethiopia.
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12
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