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Back in Action with a Battle Against Boston

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Source: The Black Chronicle

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Colonies give Statutory Recognition

Massachusetts became the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery. Other colonies followed: Connecticut 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina. 1715; Georgia, 1750.

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Dec

1

1641

Sampson was named the 1st Black representative

Chicago Atty. Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative (alternate delegate) in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations.

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Aug

24

1950

Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard born

Sugar Ray Leonard

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May

17

1956

New York Slave Revolt. April 7, 1712 Nine whites were killed in a slave revolt in New York City. Planned by 27 slaves, the rebellion was begun by setting fire to an outhouse; as whites came to put the fire out, there were shot. The state militia was called out to capture the rebels and the city of

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Apr

7

1712

African Free School opened

African Free School opened in New York.

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Oct

10

1788

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the worlds first open-heart surgery on a young man named James Cornish. James was rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago with a stab wound.

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Jul

10

1893

Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were

Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were initiated into British Military Lodge No. 441 of the Masons at Fort Independence, Massachusetts. Hall was a leather-dresser and caterer. On July 3, 1775, African Lodge No.1 was organized in Boston by a group of Black Masons.

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Jul

3

1775

America's first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black

Americas first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black students were excluded from attending.

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Feb

13

1635

U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said

U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said grandfather clauses in the Oklahoma and Maryland constitutions violated the Fifteenth Amendment.

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Jun

21

1915

Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born

Katherine Dunham

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Jun

22

1912

Singer Donna Summer, known as Queen of Disco, is born on this day in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Dec

31

1948

Organization for Afro-American Unity

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

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Jun

28

1964

Death of William Monroe Trotter

William Monroe Trotter dies, at age sixty-two in Boston.

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Apr

7

1934

Joe Frazier knocks out Jimmy Ellis

Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the second round of their New York fight and became the world heavyweight boxing champion.

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Feb

16

1970

Equal Education

On October 17, 1787 Prince Hall submitted, to the State Legislature of Boston, Massachusetts, a petition asking for equal educational rights. His petition was not granted.

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Oct

17

1787

National Negro Congress organized at Chicago

National Negro Congress organized at Chicago meeting attended by 817 delegates representing more than 500 organizations. Asa Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was elected president of the new organization.

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Feb

14

1936

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

Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and former

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Jan

4

1958

Roland Hayes became the first Black to sing in the Symphony Hall in Boston. The 1917 concert did not attract much public attention, but another in the same venue held on this day, was triumphant.

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Dec

2

1923

Ida B. Wells Barnett

Ida Wells was born a slave on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to James and Elizabeth (Warrenton) Wells. The oldest in a family of four boys and four girls, she acquired from her parents a love of liberty and self-sufficiency that characterized her

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Mar

25

1931

The first black professional baseball team, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1895 by a group of New York waiters.

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Jan

0

1895

Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago march

Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march.

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Aug

5

1966

Jasmine Guy born

Actress Jamsime Guy is born in Boston, Massachusettes.

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Apr

10

1964

Actor and entertainer Lawrence Tero (Mr. T) born in Chicago, Illinois.

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May

20

1952

Segregation Movements

Tennessee started modern segregation movement with Jim Crow railroad car and was followed by Florida (1887), Mississippi (1888), Texas (1889), Louisiana (1890), Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Georgia (1891), South Carolina (1898), North Carolina (1899), Virginia (1900), Maryland (1904), Oklahoma

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Dec

24

1881

Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight

Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight boxing champion, in Chicago.

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May

27

1975

Viro "Black Sam" Small makes his wrestling debutat Owney's Bastile in New York

Viro Black Sam Small makes his wrestling debut at Owneys Bastile in New York; he is the first known black wrestler in the U.S.

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Jan

0

1870

J.H. Jackson, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, elected president of the National Baptist Convention at Miami meeting.

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Sep

11

1953

Bert Williams--a Leading Comedian

At the turn of the century Bert Williams was one of Americas top comedians. Comedian Eddie Cantor called him a comic genius, W.C. Fields, a comic genius himself, once described Williams as the funniest man I ever

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Mar

4

1922

Race riot, West Side of Chicago

Race riot, West Side of Chicago. National Guard was placed on stand-by alert, August 14. (8/12-14).

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Aug

12

1965

Slave conspiracies and fires cause Hysteria

Succession of suspicious fires and reports of slave conspiracies created hysteria in New York in March and April. Thirty-one slaves and five whites were executed.

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Mar

31

1741

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