How Caribbean women got Biden elected

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How Caribbean women got Biden elected

As it approached midnight on Tuesday, November 3, Michelle Jawando, a voting rights attorney, sat at her Maryland, United States, home watching the presidential election results. Joseph R. Biden Jr, the Democratic Party candidate, and Kamala Harris...

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The First National Convention of Black Women

The First National Convention of Black Women held in Boston, MA

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29

1885

National Baptist Convention

These Baptist groups, the Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, the American National Baptist Convention, the Baptist National Education Convention, Merged and established the National Baptist Convention at an Atlanta meeting.

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Sep

28

1895

Virginia law declares that all non-Christians imported toits territory are to

Virginia law declares that all non-Christians imported to its territory are to be slaves for life; removes voting rights from recently freed slaves and indentured servants.

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Jan

0

1670

Another Black Church Destroyed

A Black church was destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia. This was the eighth church burned in Georgia since August 15.

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Sep

25

1962

Four national chain stores announced

Four national chain stores announced on October 17 that counters in about 150 stores in 112 cities in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Oklahoma had been integrated.

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Mar

1

1960

James Theodore Holly

James Theodore Holly, a Black American who emigrated to Haiti in 1861, elected bishop of Haiti. He was consecrated in a ceremony at New Yorks Grace Church on November 8.

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Nov

3

1874

Defense Department limited electronic surveilance

Defense Department limited electronic surveilance after disclosure of civil disturbance information collection plan which directed the gathering of information on civil rights groups.

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Mar

1

1971

1641 Massachusett colony.

In 1641, the first colony to legalize slavery, and to forbid use of unjust violence in the capture of slaves, was Massachusetts.

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Jan

0

1641

Freeing of Slaves

On May 9, 1862 General Hunter of the Union Army issued a proclomation freeing the slaves of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. A displeased President Lincoln anulled this act. Lincoln stated, General Hunter is an honest man...He proclaimed all men free within certain states. I repudiated the

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May

9

1862

First Black Woman to receive an M.D.

2/24/1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833. She worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts.

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Feb

24

1864

Marchers led by Martin Luther King

Thousands of marchers, led by Martin Luther King Jr. completed first leg of five-day Selma-to-Montgomery march. Marchers were protected by federalized Alabama National Guardsmen and U.S. Army troops. Selma-to-Montgomery march ended with rally of some fifty thousands at Alabama capitol. One of the

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Mar

7

1965

Congress helped Blacks in the military

Congress passed bill equalizing pay, arms, equipment and medical services of Black troops.

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Jun

15

1864

1849 Benjamin Roberts.

Benjamin Roberts filed the first petition to abolish segregated schools. Roberts filed the school integration suit on behalf of his daughter against the city of Boston, which had a local ordiance requiring separate schools. The Massachusetts Supreme Corut in Roberts v. Boston rejected the

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Jan

0

1855

National Congress of Racial Equality organized

National Congress of Racial Equality organized.

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Jun

20

1943

Second annual report of the NAACP

Second annual report of the NAACP listed total receipts from May through December, 1911, of $10,317.43. Organization had local chapters in Chicago, Boston and New York.

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Jan

1

1912

Institutions of Higher Learning Established

Booker T. Washington established Tuskegee Institute. Also founded in 1881 were Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and Bishop College.

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Jul

4

1881

Roland Hayes' Fifth American Tour

Roland Hayes opened his fifth American Tour at New Yorks Carnegie Hall packed with admirers.

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Nov

15

1928

Opera singer Marian Anderson born

Opera singer Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anderson was entered in the New York Philharmonic Competition at age 17 by her music teacher, and placed first over 299 other singers. Awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1930, Anderson went to Europe for a year of study. She

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Feb

27

1902

Lucius D. Amerson, first Black sheriff in the South in the twentieth century, sworn in at Tuskegee (Macon County), Alabama. First Black government installed in the Bahamas.

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Jan

16

1967

Robert N.C. Nix, first African American rep

Robert N.C. Nix, first African American representative from Pennsylvania and 11 term congressman, born

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Aug

9

1905

Third national Black convention met

Third national Black convention met in Philadelphia with twenty-nine delegates from eight states. Henry Sipkins of New York was elected president.

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Jun

4

1832

Africans accompany Spanish colonizer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon

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Jan

0

1526

Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the

Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the National Defense Program met with President Roosevelt. National Newspaper Publishers Association founded. Spingarn Medal presented to Dr. Louis T. Wright for his civil rights leadership and his contributions as a surgeon.

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Oct

25

1940

African American Captures British General

African American Captures British General Prescott: African Americans continued to serve in the colonial militias, and some, like Prince, an African American man in Lieutenant Colonel Bartons Rhode island army, showed great daring and bravery. Early in August 1777, Colonel Barton conceived a plan

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Aug

3

2002

On this day in 1874, Congressman Robert Brown Elliot deliveredone of the most

On this day in 1874, Congressman Robert Brown Elliot delivered

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Jan

6

1874

jacobean mansion

Drax Hall, Barbados, is the oldest of three remaining Jacobean mansions in the western hemisphere. the other two are St. Nicholas Abbey and Bacons Castle in Virginia.

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Jan

0

1999

First black CPA

Jesse B. Blayton became the first black certified public accountant in the United States.

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Jan

0

2000

Charles Wesley, historian, educator, and administrator, was born on this day. His published works included, Neglected History, Collapse of the Confederacy, Negro Labor in the United States, and 1850-1925: A Study of American Economic History.

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Dec

2

1895

Black Senate Page Appointed on April 8, 1965. 16 year old Lawrene Bradford of New York City was the first Black Page appointed to the US Senate.

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Apr

8

1965

James Augustine Healy

James Augustine Healy, first Black American Roman Catholic bishop, ordained a priest in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.

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Jun

10

1854

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