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283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores
On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The
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a history timeline when African Americans begin using the Internet
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Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas
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2013
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassinated
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1963
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Spike Lee
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Jackson, Maynard, Jr. (1938-2003)
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