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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
The National Council of Negro Women sponsors its first Black Family Reunion at t
The National Council of Negro Women sponsors its first Black Family Reunion at the National Mall in Washington.
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Sep
12
1986
Jewell Jackson McCabe
Jewell Jackson McCabe, first president of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, born
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Aug
2
1945
Tanzania is created
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to become the East African Nation of Tanzania.
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Apr
27
1964
Touissant L'Ouverture, born
Birthday of Haitian revolutionary Pierre-Dominique Touissant LOverture. There had been slave revolts before: in the Caribbean, in South America, and in
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May
20
1743
Congress forbade Union officers/soldiers
Congress forbade Union officers and soldiers to aid in the capture and return of fugitive slaves, ending what one historian called the military slave hunt.
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Mar
13
1862
Wash., D.C. Slave Emancipation and Reparations
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came
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Apr
16
1862
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
Morehouse Predecessor Founded
An institution was founded at Augusta, Georgia which was later to become Morehouse College, following its relocation to Atlanta. Morehouse College is one of the most prestigious black colleges in the nation.
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Feb
18
1867
Field Order No. 15
Gen. William T. Sherman issued his Field Order No. 15 setting aside the islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the river for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns River, Florida, for exclusive settlement by Blacks. The order provided that
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Jan
16
1865
The Virginia court rules in favor of John Graweere,an indentured servant who p
The Virginia court rules in favor of John Graweere, an indentured servant who petitioned the court for permission to purchase his childs freedom from the owner of the childs mother.
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Jan
0
1641
Lincoln Motion Picture Company owned by African Americans Noble Johnson and Clar
Lincoln Motion Picture Company owned by African Americans Noble Johnson and Clarence Brooks releases its first feature length film, A Mans Duty
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Sep
3
1919
Activist William Trotter born
Wiliam Monroe Trotter, crusader for full equality, publisher of The Boston Guardian, co-founder of the Niagra Movement and close friend of W.E.B. Dubois, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Trotter led a protest against the showing of the racist film Birth of a Nation and was in opposition to Booker
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Apr
17
1872
W.E.B. Du Bois died
W.E.B. Du Bois (95), scholar, protest leader and a founder of the NAACP, died in
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Aug
27
1963
The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the
The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the shoe capital of the
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Mar
19
1883
Grenadian Prime Minister killed
Grenadas U.S. educated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop killed in a military coup.
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Oct
19
1983
General Jackson Reneges On His Promise
General Jackson Reneges On His Promise: General Jackson, on order to prepare to meet Packenham, the British General, in the contest at New Orleans, came into the plantation fields to enlist five hundred Negro slaves. These are General Jackson comments: Had you not as soon go into battle an
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Oct
12
2002
African American Women College Presidents
On July 1, 1987, for the first time in history, there were three African American women serving as Presidents of Four Year Colleges and Universities in America.They were - Dr. Niara Sudarkasa- President of Lincoln University in Pennslyvania; Dr. Johnetta Cole, President of Spelman College in
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Jul
1
1987
Blacks In Armed Services
A total of 1,154, 720 Blacks were inducted or drafted into the armed services. Official records listed 7,768 Black commissioned officers on August 31, 1945. At the height of the conflict 3,902 Black women (115 officers) were enrolled in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WACS) and 68 were in the Navy
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Aug
31
1945
Ethiopia Invaded by Italy
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior
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Oct
3
1935
Frederick McKinley Jones
Frederick McKinley Jones (1892-1961) - Frederick McKinley Jones built the first automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks. Later, the system was adapted to various other carriers, including railway cars and ships. Mr. Jones new method initiated a change in the eating habits and patterns
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Mar
16
1999
World renowed opera singer
World renowed opera singer, Leontyne Price, makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House
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Jan
27
1961
Olaudah Equiano buys freedom.
Olaudah Equiano, writer of one of the earliest accounts of traveling on the Middle Passage, buys his freedom from a Quaker merchant in Philadephia
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Jul
11
1766
Slave uprise in Maryland
In 1739, the Black slaves of Prince Georges County, Maryland, secretly organized themselves into
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Jan
0
1739
Henry O. Flipper joins military academy
Henry O. Flipper of Georgia entered West Point Military Academy.
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Jul
1
1873
Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca, one of the greatest military leaders of all time was born in Carthage, which is located in todays Tunisia, a northern country in Africa.
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Jan
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0
Bars Fight
Lucy Terry pens Bars Fight. The poem was written after an Indian ambush of two families in Deerfield, Massachusetts. This is hte first poem to be composed by an African -American.
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Aug
25
1746
Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery;passes law enslaving al
Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery; passes law enslaving all imported Africans; freeborn English women who marry black slaves are enslaved, as are the childred of such unions.
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Jan
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1663
Jurist Mifflin Gibbs born
Arkansas jurist Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gibbs became the nations first African American judge in 1873. From 1850-1858, he served as U.S. consul to Madagascar.
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Apr
17
1823
Oakland, California- School board becomes the 1st in the nationto recognize bl
Oakland, California- School board becomes the 1st in the nation to recognize black english aka Ebonics as a sepearate language, NOT a dialect or slang.
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Dec
18
1996
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