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Silent Parade in protest of lynchings
Ten thousand Blacks marched down Fifth Avenue, New York City, in silent parade protesting lynchings and racial indignities.
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28
1915
Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County
Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County. Florida.
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Oct
12
1945
White, George Henry (1852-1918)
George H. White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901) from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District during what historian Rayford Logan has termed the nadir in race relations for the post-Reconstruction South. Born in
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James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born
James Cameron
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Aug
7
1930
African-American Men and Women of the Progressive Era
Despite the presence of Jim Crow Era laws and politics, African-Americans attempted to reach achieve equality by creating organizations that would help them lobby few anti-lynching legislation and achieve prosperity. Here are several African-American men and women who worked to change life for
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Mamie Till Mobley, mother of lynched Emmett Till dies at age 81. Her insistance
Mamie Till Mobley, mother of lynched Emmett Till dies at age 81. Her insistance that her sons casket remain open helped spur the civil rights movement.
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Jan
6
2003
Lynchings
Fifty Blacks were reported lynched in 1916.
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Nov
7
1916
History of Black Civil Rights in America
The history of black civil rights is the story of Americas caste system. It is the story of how for centuries upper-class whites made African Americans into a slave class, easily identifiable because of their dark skin, and then reaped the benefits—sometimes using law, sometimes using
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Lynchings in 1990
One hundred and six Blacks reported lynched in 1900.
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Nov
6
1900
African-American Business Owners in the Jim Crow Era
During the Jim Crow Era, many African-American men and women defied great odds and established their own businesses. Working in industries such as insurance and banking, sports, news publishing and beauty, these men and women developed strong business acumen that allowed them to not only build
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May
15
1917
Emmett Till kidnapped and lynched
Emmett Till (14) kidnapped and lynched in Money, Mississippi.
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Aug
28
1955
(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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Alabama Penny Savings Bank organized in Birmingham
Alabama Penny Savings Bank organized in Birmingham. Eighty-five Blacks reported lynched in 1890. Savannah State College established.
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Oct
15
1890
Northwest Enterprise (1920-1954?)
Founded in 1920, The Northwest Enterprise served an important role in supporting and maintaining an emerging African American community in Seattle, Washington and throughout the Northwest.  The newspaper served its community in five specific ways:  visibility, success, support of black
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Source: Black Past
Saint James AME Church, Helena, Montana (1888- )
When African American citizens founded the St. James African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Helena, Montana, in 1888, their population topped 250 people in a city of roughly 12,000 souls. Located in Helena’s eastside residential district on 114 N. Hoback, the church building rested on
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - Former President of South Africa
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Ida Wells Postage Stamp Issued
Ida Wells, a black reformer who compiled records on lynching, is the subject of a United States Postal Service stamp.
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Feb
1
1990
Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove. Her parents were former slaves working as sharecroppers and both died when Sarah was a child. As a result, Sarah was forced to move from one household to another. At age seven, she
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(1967) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first major public address on the War in Vietnam at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. In that address he articulated his reasons for his opposition to the
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Apr
4
1967
Lynchings in massive numbers
One hundred and one Blacks reported lynched in 1898.
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Nov
10
1898
Crossing Boundaries of Race, Crossing Boundaries of Love
In the following article, Dr. Gary B. Nash, Director, National Center for History in the Schools and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes his new book, Forbidden Love: The Hidden History of Mixed-Race America.  His book provides a counter narrative
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Henderson, George Washington (c. 1850-1936)
Born a slave in Clark County, Virginia, George Washington Henderson graduated from the University of Vermont in 1877 and became the first African American to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the highest academic honor society. He later received a bachelor’s degree in divinity from Yale
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Source: Black Past
Feb
3
1936
Lynchings
Seventy-eight Blacks reported lynched in 1896.
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Nov
3
1896
Lynching
Fifty-one Blacks reported lynched in 1913.
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Sep
10
1913
Sierra leone
But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The
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Mar
10
1998
(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”
African Methodist Episcopal minister and later Bishop Henry McNeal Turner emerged immediately after the Civil War as one of the most ardent defenders of African Ameriacn rights. Turner was also among the first group of Reconstruction-era African American elected officials. In July 1868, Turner was
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Source: Black Past
Sep
3
1868
Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
James Weldon Johnson, composer, diplomat, social critic, and civil rights activist, was born of Bahamian immigrant parents in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17, 1871.   Instilled with the value of education by his father, James, a waiter, and teacher-mother, Helen, Johnson excelled at the Stanton
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Jun
17
1871
Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope
In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was
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May
17
1954
Lynchings
Twenty-nine Blacks were reported lynched in 1923.
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Jan
17
1923
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