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Commentary By Lee P. Brown, Ph.D. On March 3, 1991 several members of the Los Angeles Police Department were captured, on camera violently beating Rodney King, a young African American man. At the time I was Police Commissioner of New York City and President of the International Association of Chief of Police and felt compelled []

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1989

North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance

North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company founded by John Merrick and associates in Durham, North Carolina as the first African American owned insurance company.

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Oct

20

1898

National Baptist Convention

These Baptist groups, the Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, the American National Baptist Convention, the Baptist National Education Convention, Merged and established the National Baptist Convention at an Atlanta meeting.

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28

1895

Betty Shabazz dies at 61, in NeW York City 3 weeks aftwerreceiving burns ovet

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1997

African American Captures British General

African American Captures British General Prescott: African Americans continued to serve in the colonial militias, and some, like Prince, an African American man in Lieutenant Colonel Bartons Rhode island army, showed great daring and bravery. Early in August 1777, Colonel Barton conceived a plan

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3

2002

Black Senate Page Appointed on April 8, 1965. 16 year old Lawrene Bradford of New York City was the first Black Page appointed to the US Senate.

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Apr

8

1965

First Prizefighter Bill Richmond born

Bill Richmond, son of a slave, became the first African American to distinguish himself as a prizefighter. On this date, Richmond knocked out Jack Holmes in England.

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Jul

8

1805

Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator.

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May

21

1881

Martin Luther King, Jr

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12

1960

Indictment in Atlanta Murders

Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicted Wayne B. Williams, a twenty-three-year-old photographer, for the murder of two of the twenty-eight Black youths killed in a series of slayings and disappearances in Atlanta. William denied the charges but was convicted in February, 1982.

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17

1981

First African American Intercollegiate football

Livingstone and Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith) play the first African American intercollegiate football game

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Dec

27

1892

Mary Eliza Mahoney

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1

1879

The First Black Psychic

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2002

Death of Florence Mills, dancer and singer,

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Nov

1

1927

Executive Order 9808

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Dec

5

1946

Lee Elder becomes the first African American professional golfer to qualify for

Lee Elder becomes the first African American professional golfer to qualify for the Masters Tournament.

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Apr

21

1974

The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical

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2

1966

Birthday of Natalie Cole

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1950

The First Black Psychic!

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Sep

28

1986

Max Robinson, first African American news anchor for a major television network

Max Robinson, first African American news anchor for a major television network died today.

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Dec

20

1988

Singer Billy Daniels dies

Jazz and ballad singer Billy Daniels dies in Los Angeles.

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Oct

7

1988

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm begins her campaign for President of the U.S.

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Jan

25

1972

Six-day insurrection started in L.A.

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Aug

11

1965

Scupltor and educator Selma Burke was born on this day in Mooresville, North Carolina. She is commissioned to create a profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt after a national competition sponsored by the Fine Arts Commission in Washington, D.C.; the completed project, a plaque, is unveiled and

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Dec

31

1900

1st Black to argue impeachment

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1999

W.E.B. Du Bois died

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Aug

27

1963

Jackie Robinson

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10

1950

1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Ken

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1999

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/activist

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18

1955

Daniel Alexander Payne

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