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23
1971
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13
1910
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of
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24
1893
Walter E. Washington
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1967
Moses A. Hopkins
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11
1885
Early Sermon for Abolition
On this date in 1791, Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745-1801) preached a strong anti-slavery sermon before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and for the Relief of Persons unlawfully holden in Bondage. Edwards was a Congregationalist minister, like his more famous father, and later
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Liberian President Killed in Coup
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1980
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Benin
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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Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the
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1865
Alexander Clark, named minister to Liberia
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1984
President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act
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Namibia gains independence
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William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor
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1975
Joyce Banda
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Al Sharpton
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William D. McCoy
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1993
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21
1848
Charles E. Mitchell
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1930
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Proclamation on Violence
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Aretha Franklin
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