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After the storm: Resources for South Dallas neighbors | Dallas Weekly

Sign up for Dallas Free Press’ text messages to be notified of more resources, information and South Dallas community news following the winter storm. Visit joinsubtext.com/southdallas or send a text to 214.380.3050. Food Feed the People Dallas, in cooperation with other organizations, has a form for storm aid and is making deliveries as they receive supplies and donations: feedthepeopledallas.com. The Harvest Project is handing out hot meals and produce […]

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When the bus boycott ended on this say, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were national heros, and the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional.

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21

1956

Organization for Afro-American Unity

Organization for Afro-American Unity founded in New York by Malcolm X.

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28

1964

This West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, between Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east, is about the size of Tennessee. It is bounded by Burkina Faso and Niger on the north. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the

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2011

Rhue, Sylvia (1947- )

Sylvia Rhue is a distinguished writer, religious scholar, documentarian, and public speaker. She has engaged in significant work in religious communities around lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) rights and sexuality as well as co-produced an award-winning

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Taye Diggs was born on January 2, 1971 in Newark, New Jersey. He is the oldest of five children born to Marcia and Andre Young. Diggs grew up in Rochester, New York where he attended Allendale Columbia School. He later transferred to School of the Arts. He also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from

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Jan

2

1971

After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada

The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned? In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African

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After several postponements by President Gbagbo, Côte dIvoire held its first presidential election in ten years in Oct. 2010. The first round of voting between incumbent Gbagbo and his historic rival Alassane Ouattara, a former IMF official who was excluded from the presidential 2000 race because

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Cottonpickers organized union and strike

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1891

(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

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1868

Betty Shabazz, born

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28

1940

A commemorative stamp of Martin Luther King, Jr. is issued by the U.S. Postal Se

A commemorative stamp of Martin Luther King, Jr. is issued by the U.S. Postal Service as part of its Black Heritage USA commemorative series. The stamp of the slain civil rights leader is the second in the series.

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1979

G. Chandler Vaughan, Dallas, Texas

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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”

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Martin Luther King,Jr. Ordained

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1948

Grant Chapel AME Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1883- )

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March 24,1837 Canada gives Blacks the right to vote.1865 Black troops ar

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(1905) Roscoe Conkling Bruce, “Freedom Through Education”

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“The Yellow Rose of Texas”: The Ironic Origins of a Popular Song

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Evans, Melvin Herbert (1917–1984)

Melvin Herbert Evans was born on August 7, 1917, in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He attended public schools until entering Howard University where he received his B.S. in 1940. In 1944 he received his M.D. from Howard College of Medicine, whereupon he served in a variety of medical

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1979

Texas Admitted as a Slave State

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Dec

29

1845

Marchers led by Martin Luther King

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7

1965

Pulitzer Prize Awarded

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Dec

4

1969

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Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey

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1955

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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1850

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2

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Berry Lawson Case (1938)

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