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O’Leary, Hazel Rollins Reid (1937- )
The first and only woman to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of Energy, Hazel Rollins Reid was born May 17, 1937 in Newport News, Virginia.  During this time of public school segregation, Reid’s parents, hoping for better schooling opportunities, sent their daughter to live with an aunt in New
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22
1993
(1974) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's Statement: The Richard Nixon Impeachment Hearings
Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan was selected to give the Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee on July 25, 1974, as it began its momentous proceedings on the Impeachment of President Richard Nixon. Her statement appears
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Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
March 27, 1946, Argued
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(2017) President Barack Obama's Farewell Address
On January 10, 2017, Barack Obama delivered his last farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. His speech is appears
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Oscar Robertson
Oscar Palmer Robertson is a retired professional basketball player. He was born on November 24, 1938 in Charlotte, Tennessee. He lived in a segregated housing project and attended a segregated high school called Crispus Attucks High School. He learned to play basketball at a very young age. His
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Nov
24
1938
(1995) Louis Farrakhan, “A Million Men Marching On"
In 1995 Minister Louis Farrakhan was the leader of the Nation of Islam.  That year his organization became the driving force in the Million Man March, a call for African American men to come to Washington D.C. on October 17, 1995, in what was billed as “a day of atonement.”  Although
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Black Union Soliders
Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry and units of the Twenty-fifth Corps were in the vanguard of Union troops entering Richmond. Second Division of Twenty-Fifth Corps helped chase Robert E. Lees army from Petersburg to Appomattox Court House, April 3-10. The Black division and white Union soldiers
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3
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Thomas Mensah
Thomas Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1950. His father, J.K. Mensah, was a businessman who shipped cocoa products to chocolate manufacturers in France. Thomas was an exceptionally bright child, learning to read newspapers at an early age and becoming fluent in French. As a child, he often
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26
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William "Willie the Pro" Thrower (1930-2002)
William ‘Willie the Pro” Thrower was the first African American to play as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Thrower was born on March 22, 1930, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Although his statistics as a college and high school football player are good, and his pro
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22
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(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"
Controversial remarks drawn from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unpaid campaign advisor to Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, and his pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, emerged as a lingering issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.  On March
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Born: 0/29/938 Monrovia, LiberiaAfrica’s first female head of state won the 20 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting Liberian reconciliation and in atoning for Liberia’s history of civil war. She was re-elected for a second term the same year, reneging on an earlier promise to run for only
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Fikes, Robert
Robert Fikes, Jr., a 1970 graduate of Tuskegee Institute, earnedgraduate degrees in modern European history and library science at theUniversity of Minnesota. A reference librarian at San Diego StateUniversity where he is also subject bibliographer for Africana Studiesand for American, Middle
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(2017) New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
On May 19, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed an audience in his city as a backdrop and explanation of the city’s recent decision to remove statutes of General Robert E. Lee and other Confederate military and political leaders from public squares in New Orleans.  His speech
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Brown, Ruth (1928-2006)
Known as the Queen of R&B, Ruth Brown was a rhythm and blues singer and actress who crusaded for musicians’ rights. Brown was born Portsmouth, Virginia, on January 12, 1928. After a string of unfortunate events, Brown ended up in Washington, D.C. There, important people backed her such as
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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System
In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama
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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”
Francis J. Grimke was born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4, 1850.  After the war he and his older brother, Archibald, went north to Lincoln University.  Francis graduated from Lincoln in 1870.  After working briefly at Lincoln, Grimke attended Princeton Theological Seminary from
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Remembering Sara Dunlap Jackson (1919-1991)
In 1944 Sara Dunlap Jackson became one of the first African American professionals hired by the National Archives in Washington, D.C. where she specialized in western, military, social and African American topics.  She continued at the Archives until her retirement in 1990.  In the following
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Slater, Rodney (1955- )
Rodney E. Slater, former cabinet member, attorney, and state government official, was born in Marianna, Arkansas, on February 23, 1955.  In 1977, Slater graduated from Eastern Michigan University. He earned his law degree in 1980 from the University of
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A Brief History of the San Diego NAACP, 1917-2007
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Gaines, Irene McCoy (1892-1964)
Irene McCoy Gaines was a civil rights activist and a community leader. Born October 25, 1892, in Ocala, Florida, to Charles and Mamie McCoy, she had one older sister who died while Gaines was a child. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was an infant. In 1903, Gaines’s mother became
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Alaska Fair Employment Practices Law (1953)
Relating to and providing far the elimination of certain practice of discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin; providing
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B.B. King
Name at birth: Riley B. King
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Annan, Kofi A. (1938-- )
Kofi Atta Annan, born on 8 April 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana, served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) between 1997 and 2007.  As a young man, Annan finished his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961.  He then completed his
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest boxers of all time. He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali was a fiercely serious child, who had experienced the harsh realities of racism at a very young age. He started training to be a boxer at the age of 12
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Slavery and Freedom on the Minnesota Territory Frontier: The Strange Saga of Joseph Godfrey
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Born in 1938 to a family in Monrovia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia. Before becoming actively involved in politics, especially that of her native country, Johnson travelled to the United States to acquire higher education after graduating from the College of West
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