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In 1943, Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), wrote an open letter in the Pittsburgh Courier to the presidents of our nation’s private black colleges urging them to pool their small monies and make a united appeal to the national conscience. His
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Apr
25
1944
Grambling coach,Eddie Robinson who is the winniest coach in college football h
Grambling coach,Eddie Robinson who is the winniest coach in college football hisrory, coaches his last game.
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Dec
6
1997
Slater, Rodney (1955- )
Rodney E. Slater, former cabinet member, attorney, and state government official, was born in Marianna, Arkansas, on February 23, 1955.  In 1977, Slater graduated from Eastern Michigan University. He earned his law degree in 1980 from the University of
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Feb
23
1955
Ruth Moore 1st Black Female Ph.D. in Bacteriology
Ruth Ella Moore was born in 1903. She received a Bachelor of Science from Ohio State University in 1926 and a Master of
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Jan
0
1903
(1905) Roscoe Conkling Bruce, “Freedom Through Education”
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Ralph Ellison
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the year 1914, Ralph Ellison was a celebrated National Book Award winner for his novel “Invisible Man”. He was awarded this this title in the year 1953. Even though he was best known for this novel, that is not all Ralph Ellison was. Ralph
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Apr
16
1994
Charles Drew
Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C., the son of Richard and Nora Drew and eldest of five children. Charles was one of those rare individuals who seemed to excel at everything he did and on every level and would go on to become of pioneer in the field of
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Kwesi Mfume
Born: 0/24/948 Baltimore, MarylandKweisi Mfume is the former President/CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as well as a five-term Democratic Congressman from Marylands 7th congressional district, serving in the 00th through 04th CongressBusiness
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Rosa Parks
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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Dec
1
1955
Forty-fifth Congress (1877-79) convened
Forty-fifth Congress (1877-79) convened. One U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi. Three U.S. congressmen: Richard H. Cain, Joseph H. Rainey, Robert Smalls, South Carolina. Jackson College (Miss.) established.
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Oct
15
1877
Clarke, William D., Sr. (1941--)
Ambassador William Davis Clark was born in 1941.  Currently, he is retired and resides with his wife, Katsuko M. Clarke, in Maryland.  Clarke has two sons William Clarke Jr. and Robert Clarke, and one daughter, Christina Armstrong.  In 1963, Clarke earned his bachelor’s degree at Howard
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Fikes, Robert
Robert Fikes, Jr., a 1970 graduate of Tuskegee Institute, earnedgraduate degrees in modern European history and library science at theUniversity of Minnesota. A reference librarian at San Diego StateUniversity where he is also subject bibliographer for Africana Studiesand for American, Middle
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Spingarn Medal: Robert R. Moton
Spingarn Medal awarded to Robert R. Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute, for his thoughtful leadership in conservative opinion and action.
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Nov
8
1932
Brooke, Edward, III (1919-2015)
Edward William Brooke III was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate.  Brooke, an African American, Protestant Republican, won elective office in the overwhelmingly white, Catholic, Democratic state of Massachusetts and emerged as a leader in the US
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Carter Goodwin Woodson
Carter G. Woodson was on this day in New Canton, Virginia. He became known as the Father of Black History. In 1926 Woodson created the first oh what is an annual celebration of African-American achievement. It was once called Negro History Week but is now called Black History Month.
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Dec
9
1875
Institutions Of Higher Learning
North Carolina A&T College, Delaware State College and West Virginia State College established.
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Dec
2
1891
John Mercer Langston (1829-97).
In October, 1868, John Mercer Langston founded and organized the Law Department of Howard University, the first in a black school. He headed the department when classes formally began on January 6, 1869, and was its dean from 1870 to 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he was vice-president and acting
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Jan
6
1869
(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”
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Merriwether, Raymond (1924–2011)
Raymond (Ray) Merriwether, prominent Seattle, Washington African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper owner, was born in Taylor, Texas on June 19, 1924 to Colie and Annie Merriwether.  After graduating from high school Merriwether attended barber school and served a short time
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May
23
2011
Carter G. Woodson's Birth
Carter G.Woodson, founder of Black History Month, born in New Canton, Buckingham County, Virginia.
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Dec
19
1875
Robert Pelham
Robert Pelham was born in January of 1859 in Petersburg, Virginia. His parents, Robert and Frances Pelham, moved the family to Detroit, Michigan in hopes of finding a more favorable atmosphere for their children to receive an education and opportunities for decent employment. While enrolled in
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Nov
26
2012
Alexander Thomas Augusta
Alexander Thomas Augusta, first African American faculty member of an American medical school, Howard University, is born free
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Mar
8
1825
O’Hara, James Edward (1844-1905)
After the Civil War, James O’Hara taught at freedman’s schools in New Bern and Goldsboro, North Carolina. OHara also studied law at Howard University in Washington, D.C.  Shortly after North Carolina’s 1868 Constitutional Convention which reorganized state government and authorized black male
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Ellison, Ralph
Ellison, Ralph (Ralph Waldo Ellison), 1914–94, African-American author, b. Oklahoma City studied Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee Univ.). Originally a trumpet player and aspiring composer, he moved (1936) to New York City, where he met Langston Hughes , who became his mentor, and became friends
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Morrison, Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" (1931- 2019)
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio to parents George and Ella Ramah Wofford, novelist Toni Morrison grew up in a working class family.  She received a B.A. degree from Howard University after majoring in English and minoring in the classics.  Wofford earned an
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Feb
18
1931
African American History
African American history entails the American history with regard to black ethnic group that formed its root in America after being enslaved by the whites in their homeland. The heinous tradition of holding blacks in captivity and enslaving them began in the mid 16th century and lasted till
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Jan
1
1863
George Washington Carver of Tuskegee Institute received the Spingarn Medal, the
George Washington Carver of Tuskegee Institute received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACPs highest award, for distinguished research in agricultural chemistry.
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Sep
4
1923
Fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma, founded at Howard University, 1914
Fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma, founded at Howard University, 1914
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Jan
9
1914
(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Democracy and Education”
In 1895 Booker T. Washington, the founder and Principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama rose to national prominence when he gave his famous Atlanta Compromise Speech at the Cotton States Exposition.  Approximately one year later on September 30, 1896, Washington addressed an audience at the
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Sep
30
1896
Wells, Barry L. (1942- )
Ambassador Barry L. Wells has had an extensive career in international affairs with the United States Foreign Service after an earlier period as a university professor and administrator. Wells was born in 1942 in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from East High School in that city in 1959. He received
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