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Rhue, Sylvia (1947- )
Sylvia Rhue is a distinguished writer, religious scholar, documentarian, and public speaker. She has engaged in significant work in religious communities around lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) rights and sexuality as well as co-produced an award-winning
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The leading scorer in the history of NBA, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won 6 of the most prestigious NBA titles, five of which were with the Los Angeles Lakers over a period of 20 years. His list of achievements is one of the most extraordinary in league’s history. Not only was Kareem a member of six NBA
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Apr
16
1947
Arthur Ashe dies
Tennis player Arthur Ashe dies. Ashe was the first African American to win at Wimbledon.
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Feb
6
1993
first Black professional hockey player
Grant Fuhr, goalie for the world champion Edmonton Oilers, is picked in the first round of the National Hockey League draft to become the first Black professional hockey player
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Sponsored by APEX Museum
Jan
18
1981
Roy Campanella was named most valuable player of the National Baseball League fo
Roy Campanella was named most valuable player of the National Baseball League for the second time, 1953
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Nov
19
1953
Musician Joseph Oliver born
Birthday of jazz artist, coronet player, band leader and composer, Joseph King Oliver of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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May
14
1885
Carl Erskine
Carl Erskine is born. He will become a baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Dec
13
1926
Aha- First Dynastic King of Egypt
Ka Ma Ma ha, or Narmer Mena (Menes of the Greeks), was born to a petty king of Upper Egypt (Southern Egypt) around 3200BC. Not much is known of Ahas father other than he was ruler in Egypts southern lands where the totemic symbol of the Horus-falcon was prevalent. Most probably Ahas family bore
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Jan
0
1998
Whitney Young Jr.
Whitney Young Jr. named executive director of the National Urban League.
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Aug
1
1961
Roy Campanella
Roy Camanella was major league baseballs first black catcher.
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Jan
0
2000
Emmett Ashford
Emmett Ashrord was the first umpire in major league baseball.
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Jan
0
2000
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price has achieved heights in the music world that many aspire to but that very few reach. As a singer she became famous all around the world. Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927. As a youth, she sang in church choirs. Later, she attended Central State
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Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Feb
10
1927
Conna, John N. (1836-1921)
John Newington Conna was a pivotal figure in the early history and development of Washington State. Born enslaved near San Augustine, Texas in 1836, Conna was a free man by the time of the Civil War because he served in the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, an all-black Union Regiment between 1863 and
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LeBron James
LeBron James is an American basketball superstar who currently plays for the National Basketball Association (NBA) team “Cleveland Cavaliers”. He is six feet, eight inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. He was born to a 16 year old single mother named Gloria Marie James on December
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Negro Baseball League player, William Foster was born, 1889
Negro Baseball League player, William Foster was born, 1889
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Sep
16
1889
Jim Brown
Born on February 17, 1936, James Nathaniel Brown grew up off the southern coast of Georgia without a father who left the family when Brown was only two weeks old. After his mother left to take up a job in New York, the young child was brought up by his great-grandmother. At eight years of age, Jim
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Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Feb
17
1936
Urban League President
Vernon E. Jordan resigned as president of the National Urban League and announced plans to join a Washington law firm. He was succeeded by John E. Jacob, executive vice president of the league.
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Sep
9
1981
Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park
Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago triggered virtually continuous riot which lasted more than three years and required assignment of more than one thousand policemen to keep order.
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Aug
4
1953
National Urban League presented one-hour program
National Urban League presented one-hour program over a national radio network and urged equal participation for Blacks in national defense program.
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Mar
30
1941
Black Women Unite
National Federation of Afro-American Women and the Colored Womens League merged and created the National Association of Colored Women. Mary Church Terrell was elected president at meeting at Washingtons Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
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Jul
21
1896
Professional baseball player, Frank Robinson was named MVP of the American Leagu
Professional baseball player, Frank Robinson was named MVP of the American League, 1966
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Sep
2
1966
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American major league baseball player
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Sponsored by Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Boston Professional Chapter
Apr
19
1947
Negro Baseball League founded
The Negro Baseball League founded.
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Sponsored by Intellitech
Feb
3
1920
Tavis Smiley
Name at birth: Tavis Roberts
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A Black scientist helped save thousands of lives
A Black scientist helped save thousands of lives during World War II. Dr. Charles Richard Drew set up and ran the pioneer blood plasma bank in Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. This bank served as one of the models for the system of banks operated later by the American Red Cross. On October
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Oct
1
1940
Fats Waller
Name at birth: Thomas Wright Waller
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Aba Women's Riots (November-December 1929)
The riots or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the Aba Womens Riots of 1929 in British colonial history, or as the Womens War in Igbo history.  Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt
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Jan
1
1914
Buffalo Soldiers
General Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, dedicated the Buffalo Soldiers Monument at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Jul
25
1992
Birthday
Jacques Dominique Wilkins, 39, basketball player, born Paris, France, Jan 12, 1960
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Jan
12
1960
Tony Gwynn
Anthony Keith Gwynn, Sr., better known as Tony Gwynn, was a baseball pro who played for the San Diego Padres. He was born on May 9, 1960 in Los Angeles, California to Charles and Vendella Gwynn. The family moved to Long Beach, California when he 9 years old. He had two brothers, an elder brother
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16
2014
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