Jamaican appointed to lead Connecticut public school system

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Jamaican appointed to lead Connecticut public school system

The newly appointed head of the Connecticut’s public school system is Jamaican Charlene Russell-Tucker. She will oversee a public school system that caters to 528,000 students across the state. Russell-Tucker was appointed by Governor Ned Lamont as...

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Martin R. Delany

Martin R. Delany published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, it was the first major statement of the Black nationalist position. Delany said, The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any

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20

1852

Stokely Carmichael

Born: 6/29/1941 Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoDied: 11/15/1998 Conakry, Guinealso known as Kwame Turé, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he

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Saint Francis Xavier Church

The first exclusively Black parish in the United States was Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland. It was purchased on this day and dedicated months later.

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Oct

10

1863

Third Enforcement Act

Third Enforcement Act defined Klan conspiracy as a rebellion against the United States and empowered the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and declare martial law in rebellious areas.

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Apr

20

1871

Riots Are Getting Bad

A report of the Senate Permanent Investigating Committee said there were seventy-five major riots in 1967, compared with twenty-one major riots in 1966. The committee reported that eight-three persons were killed in 1967 riots, compared with eleven in 1966 and thirty-six in 1965.

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Nov

7

1967

The Baptist Foreign Mission

More than 150 delegates from Baptist Churches in eleven states organized the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States at a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama. Rev. William H. McAlphine was elected president.

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Nov

24

1880

Abolitionist Society Organized

First abolitionist society in United States organized in Philadelphia.

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Apr

14

1775

Edward W. Brooke

Edward W. Brooke (Republican, Massachusetts) elected to U.S. Senate and became the first Black senator since the Reconstruction era and the first Black senator elected by popular vote. Racial violence was reported in forty-three cities in 1966, with eleven killed, more than four hundred injured and

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Nov

8

1966

Blacks Declared Non-Citizens of US

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Mar

7

1859

U.S. Black Population

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Jan

3

1947

White conservatives suppressed Black vote

White conservatives suppressed Black vote and captured Tennessee legislative in election marred by assassinations and widespread violence. Campaign effectively ended Radical Reconstruction in North Carolina. The conservative legislature impeached Governor Holden on December 14.

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Aug

6

1870

First Black Appointed to a Sub-Cabinet Post

William Henry Lewis was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States by President William Howard Taft, making him the first Black appointed to a sub-cabinet post.

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Nov

26

1911

The Great Migration

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4

1915

Filibuster in U.S. Senate killed FEPC bill

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Feb

7

1946

Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and

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May

1

1948

Spingarn Medal: Edward W. Brooke

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Nov

7

1967

United States population: 293,200,000

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2

1970

Governor Patterson declared martial law in

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May

21

1961

Poet Jupiter Hammon born

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Oct

17

1720

Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.

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Grover Cleveland Wins Election

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4

1884

Clarence Thomas

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Conception Seminary College

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James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born

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7

1930

Connecticut legally recognizes the legal institutionof slavery.

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1650

U.S. Refuses to Seat P.B.S. Pinchback

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Mar

8

1876

Booker T. Washington

Born: 4/5/856 Hales FordDied: /4/95 Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.Booker T. Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 890 and 95, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last

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Korematsu v. United States

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18

1944

African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites

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2002

Carrie Saxton Perry

Carrie Perry was the first black woman mayor to be elected to a major U.S. city. She was elected mayor of Hartford, the capital of Connecticut in 1987.

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