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Article: The Trojan Horse Election

Article: The Trojan Horse Election - As we enter another presidential election year the 'lesser of two evils' mantra comes up once again and, as usual, one cannot deny the American people are not given a candidate who is equipped, fundamentally, or morally to manage and direct the future of our nation.

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29

1959

The Freeman's Bureau.

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Mar

3

1865

Spottiswood W. Robinson

Spottiswood W. Robinson, representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, dean of the Howard University Law School, member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Circuit Judge of the D.C. Circuit, born

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Jul

26

1916

Executive Order 9808

In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil

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Dec

5

1946

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist

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Jan

17

1924

War of 1812: Although the U.S. Army did not enlist African Americans after the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Navy continued to use African Americans as seamen because of the perennial shortage of white sailors. The African American presence in the navy placed them at the center of the naval incident

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16

2002

A Demonstration Led by NAACP

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Dec

4

1915

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

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0

1983

Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of President of the US

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3

1983

Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity founded

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5

1911

The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem by Lois Alexander to highlight the

The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem by Lois Alexander to highlight the achievements and contributions of African Americans to fashion.

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21

1979

Robert Weaver, born on this day, beacme the first Black appointed to a presidential cabinet when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to head the newly created Departmentof Housing and Urban Development.

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29

1907

Martin Luther King Jr's Death

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4

1968

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2001

William H. Lewis

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26

1910

Roy deCarava, the first African American photographer to be awarded aGuggenhei

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9

1919

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I

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1958

Emmet Ashford becomes the first African American

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1966

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1973

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3

1852

The Secretary of the Navy authorizes the enlistment of African Americans in the

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25

1861

NAACP Elects Kweisi Mfume

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9

1995

Selma March begins

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21

1965

The First Novel by a Black American

William Wells Brown published Clotel, the first novel by a Black American.

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6

1853

Scottsboro Boys Falsely Accused

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25

1931

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment

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1866

Alex Haley, renowned author, dies

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President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg,

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