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Miller, Heather
Heather earned a PhD in comparative women’s history, Latin American history, and the history of sexuality at the Ohio State University in 2002, where she completed her dissertation, “The Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United States, 1870–1990.” She has
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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  His acceptance speech appears
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1964
Fango, Gobo (1855-1886)
Gobo Fango was born in the Eastern Cape Colony in what is now South Africa around 1855, just before the beginning of the eighth of the nine Xhosa Wars (Cape Frontier Wars) against British and Boer settlers.  Fango was a member of the Gcaleka tribe, a sub-group of the Xhosa peoples.  These frontier
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Injustice 101: Government Higher Education Act Denies Financial Aid to Students with Drug Convictions
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2000
(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”
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Boxing champion, Muhammad Ali
Boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, named the Associated Press Athelete of the Year, 1974
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1974
Larry Holmes
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21
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Satcher, David (1941- )
David Satcher, physician, educator, and administrator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941 to Wilmer and Anne Satcher.   In 1963 Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta.  He earned a M.D. and Ph.D. in cytogenetics from Case Western Reserve University in
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2
1941
Cassius Clay Becomes Muhammad Ali
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26
1964
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BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes availablea wealth of materials on African American history in one centrallocation on the Internet. These materials include an onlineencyclopedia of over 4,000 entries, the complete transcript of more than 300speeches by African Americans, other people
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First abolitionist society in United States organized in Philadelphia.
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14
1775
Executive Order 9808
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Black Scotts
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Ebony Magazine
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Rosalind Brewer
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After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada
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O’Neal, Adrienne S. (1954- )
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Ragsdale, Marguerita (1948- )
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
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1992
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Askia Muhammad Toure
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Muhammad Ali.
On September 15, 1978, Muhammad Ali, was the first black prizefight to gross more than a five-million dollars gate in the bout at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. Muhammad Ali won in a 13-round unanimous decision and became the first to win the heavyweight title three times.
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Muhammad Ali
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1970
Southwestern Christian College (1948- )
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Owen, Robert
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