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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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Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, keystone of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, died of heart failure.

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17

1990

Denzel Washington Born

Actor Denzel Washington was born on this day in Mount Vernon, NY. Washington will star in such films as Malcolm X, Glory, Much Ado about Nothing, and A Soldiers Story. He will have a start in television in his role on popular show St. Elsewhere. He will win an Academy Award for best supporting

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Dec

28

1954

(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”

Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial

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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress

In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close a thirty two year period when nearly forty Southern African Americans sat in Congress, White used

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Williams, Camilla (1919-2012)

Professional opera singer Camilla Williams was born October 18, 1919 in Danville, Virginia to Fannie Carey Williams and Cornelius Booker Williams. The youngest of four siblings, Williams began singing at a young age and was performing at her local church by age eight. At age 12, she began taking

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29

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Malcolm X (39) assassinated in Audubon Ballroom at

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Feb

21

1965

Gratz et al v. Bollinger et al (2003)

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Mar

3

1869

Hayes, Charles Arthur (1918-1997)

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Oct

14

1964

Never has the sport of boxing seen such an exhaustive transformation as that in the career of George Edward Foreman, who started off as a world-renowned boxer and later became an ordained Christian minister. Born in Marshall, Texas on January 10, 1949, the 6 foot 3 inch tall American has a lot of

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10

1949

Poor People's Campaign

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4

1968

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Two white regiments and a Black regiment, the

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13

1865

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1854

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19

1910

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13

1957

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Jan

30

1956

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Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam

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12

1964

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12

1932

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11

1926

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23

1968

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5

1966

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

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12

1967

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28

1964

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Oct

27

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