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A troubled past

One of the joys of the six years I spent on the Arkansas Humanities Council was getting to know top-notch scholars. Two of the best with whom I served were Cherisse Jones-Branch, a history professor at Arkansas State University, and Ken Barnes, who recently retired as a history professor at the University of Central Arkansas.

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Daniel Alexander Payne

On this date in 1893, Daniel A. Payne died. The sixth bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, Payne was the first African American ordained by the Lutheran Church in 1837. In 1856, he founded Wilberforce University, where he became the first Black president of a college in America. Payne

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Feb

24

1811

William Ellisworth Artist is born

William Ellisworth Artist is born in Washington,N.C. Educated at Syracuse University and a student of Augusta Savage. His works will be exhibited at Atlanta University, the Whitney Museum, the Two Centuries of Black American Art exhibit and collected by Fisk University, Hampton University, the

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Feb

2

1914

On this day at the Grammy Awards ceremony, African-American musicians won awards in several categories. Lionel Richies Cant Slow Down won best album of 1984. Tina Turners Whats Love Got to Do With It took the best record slot and earned her the title Best Female Pop Vocalist. The Pointer Sisters

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Feb

26

1985

Ernest Green graduated from Little Rock's Central

Ernest Green graduated from Little Rocks Central High School with six hundred white classmates.

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May

27

1958

Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams

Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, the first African American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl game, is named MVP in Super Bowl XXII.

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Jan

31

1988

Arthur Ashe makes history by becoming the first African American male to win the mens single title at Wimbledon, defeating Jimmy Connors.

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Jul

5

1975

Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born on this day in 1868 in Texarkana, Te

Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born on this day in 1868 in Texarkana, Texas. A skilled pianist and composer, Joplin started a 20-year ragtime craze with the release of his composition Maple Leaf Rag in 1897, during the Gay Nineties. Ragtime-scored piano music-at the time was considered

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Apr

1

1917

P.B.S Pinchback became the 1st African American governor of an American state, Louisiana

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Dec

11

1872

Morehouse Predecessor Founded

An institution was founded at Augusta, Georgia which was later to become Morehouse College, following its relocation to Atlanta. Morehouse College is one of the most prestigious black colleges in the nation.

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Feb

18

1867

The 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all African American

The 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all African American unit is formed and the Tuskegee Training Program is established, the 99th will fly more than 500 missions and more than 3,700 sorties during one year of combat before being combined with the 332nd Fighter Group.

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Jan

16

1941

Mae Jemison: Astronaut, Physician

Born: October 17, 1956

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Oct

17

1956

COINTELPRO Memorandum

A memorandum sent to field offices of the FBI set goals for what was termed as a new counterintelligence program against African American Nationalist groups. The objective was to block attempts by targeted groups to coalesce, grow and exist. The agencey believed unity was the first step toward

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Mar

3

1968

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm became the first African American Presidential nominee, with 151 votes from the delegates polled.

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Jul

13

1972

W Wilson Goode becomes the 1st African American mayor of Philadelphia

W Wilson Goode becomes the 1st African American mayor of Philadelphia

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Oct

9

1984

Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard born

Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1965, Howard signed a $70,000 contract with the NY Yankees and became the highest paid player in the history of baseball at the time.

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Feb

23

1929

Shirley Franklin is sworn in

Shirley Franklin is sworn in as the first African American Mayor of Atlanta and the only African American female mayor of a major American city.

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Jan

7

2002

Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago

Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet Margaret T. Burroughs in 1961, the DuSable is one of the oldest African American museums in the U.S.

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Sep

17

1991

White terrorists attacked Black Republicans

White terrorists attacked Black Republicans in Hamburg, S.C., killing five.

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Jul

8

1876

Colin L. Powell

Colin L. Powell was the first African American to hold the highest U.S. Military post. In August 1989 he was named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Aug

0

1989

Black Economist and Dean

Death of Brailsford Reese Brazeal (76), economist and former dean of Morehouse College, in Atlanta.

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Apr

22

1981

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar born in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar is one of the most popular African-American poets of all time. His dialect poemsand humor in his works were often under appreciated due to the English standardswhich were set at the time. His book was finally givenattention in

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Jun

27

1872

William "Bill" Richmond fights and loses to Tom Cribb, English boxing champion

William Bill Richmond fights and loses to Tom Cribb, English boxing champion, Halsham, England; it is the first time a black Americn athlete competes for a world title in any sport.

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Jan

0

1805

Holding Back The Hate

President Eisenhower ordered federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to prevent interference with school integration at Central High School.

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Sep

24

1957

Cowboy Willie "Bill" Pickett dies

World famous African American cowboy Willie Bill Pickett died in Ponca, Oklahoma, hospital of injuries sustained after he was kicked in the head by a horse on the Millers Brothers Fabulous 101 Ranch.

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Apr

2

1932

The First Black Psychic

Shirley Ajayi was the first African American given a part on a television show as a psychic! The show lasted for about one year[actually six months] in Chicago, Illinois since the show was seasonal! Shirley started her career the minute her predictions came true! She was renamed Aura and hired to

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Mar

27

2002

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress from Illinois First Congressional District (Chicago). He was the first congressman from the North and the first Black in Congress since the departure of George H. White in 1901.

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Nov

6

1928

Zora Neale Hurston, writer/anthropologist born

Zora Neale Hurston

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Jan

7

1891

Events After Martin Luther King Jr's Death

Martin Luther King Jr. buried after funeral services at Ebenezer Baptist Church and memorial services at Morehouse College, Atlanta. More than 300,000 persons marched behind the coffin of the slain leader which was carried through streets of Atlanta on farm wagon pulled by two Georgia

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Apr

9

1968

USBA Welterweight Title

Thomas Hit Man Hearns wins the vacant USBA Welterweight title. This is one of five weight classes that he has won a boxing title making him the first Black to win boxing titles in five different weight classes.

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Mar

2

1980

Death of George Washington Williams

Death of George Washington Williams (41), Blackpool, England. Williams served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1880 to 1881, during the 64th session of the General Assembly. He was the first African-American to serve in the Ohio Legislature.

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Aug

4

1891

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