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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom
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Sudan
Sudan, in northeast Africa, measures about one-fourth the size of the United States. Its neighbors are Chad and the Central African Republic on the west, Egypt and Libya on the north, Ethiopia and Eritrea on the east, and South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo on the
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South africa
Nelson Mandela, whose term as president cemented his reputation as one of the worlds most farsighted and magnanimous statesmen, retired in 1999. On June 2, 1999, Thabo Mbeki, the pragmatic deputy president and leader of the ANC, was elected president in a landslide, having already assumed many of
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Congo, Democratic Republic of the
The Congo, in west-central Africa, is bordered by the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one-quarter the size of the U.S. The principal rivers are the Ubangi and Bomu in the north and the Congo
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(1838) Sara T. Smith, “Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice”
On May 17, 1838, abolitionist Sara T. Smith addresses the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women which was originally scheduled to be held in Pennsylvania Hall.  The meeting however was moved when anti-abolitionist mobs, upon learning of the Convention, burned the hall to the ground.  The
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The Color Purple (film)
The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielbergs eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had
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Dinkins, David N. (1927- )
In 1989, David N. Dinkins defeated his challenger, former federal prosecutor Rudolph (Rudy) Giuliani, to become the first African American mayor of New York
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America’s Black Ambassadors: A Historical Snapshot
America’s Black Ambassadors: A HistoricalSnapshot
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1845
Mathieu, Gail Dennise (1951?- )
Gail Dennise Mathieu, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was appointed United States Ambassador to Niger by President George W. Bush in 2002. She remained in Niamey, the capital until 2005.  In 2007 President Bush appointed her United States Ambassador to Namibia. Between these
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was a legendary American jazz singer, songwriter and actress. She was born as Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915 to Sarah Julia Fagan and Clarence Holiday. Her parents were neither married, nor living together and Clarence left the family when Billie was just a child. Her mother moved
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1959
Frances Ellen Harper Branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1891-1895)
The Frances Ellen Harper branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in Seattle by Mrs. Emma Ray in 1891.  It was a local branch of the WCTU, an organization dedicated to total abstinence from alcohol based on the belief that alcohol was responsible for many of the economic
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Liberia
Lying on the Atlantic in the southern part of West Africa, Liberia is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte dIvoire. It is comparable in size to Tennessee. Most of the country is a plateau covered by dense tropical forests, which thrive under an annual rainfall of about 160
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1980
From the Slave Quarters to the Courtroom: The Story of the First African American Attorney in the United States
Since J. Clay Smith’s publication of Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, it has been taken as gospel that Boston resident Macon Allen in 1844 became was the first African-American admitted to the bar to practice law in the United States.  Recently, as part of the celebration of the 150th
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The Freedom Charter Called for Equality in South Africa
The Freedom Charter was a document ratified at the Congress of the People, held at Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa, in June 1955, by the various member bodies of the Congress Alliance. The policies set out in the Charter included a demand for a multi-racial, democratically elected government, equal
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Sudan
Just as Sudans civil war seemed to be coming to an end, another war intensified in the northwestern Darfur region. After the government quelled a rebellion in Darfur in Jan. 2004, it allowed pro-government militias called the Janjaweed to carry out massacres against black villagers and rebel groups
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Sudan
In October 2007, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) quit the national unity government, leaving the peace agreement signed in 2005 on the brink of collapse. The SPLA claimed that the governing party, the National Congress Party, had ignored its concerns over boundary between the north and
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DeLarge, Robert Carlos (1842-1874)
Robert Carlos DeLarge was born a slave in Aiken, South Carolina on March 15, 1842.  Rare for that period, DeLarge graduated from Wood High school in Charleston and worked as a tailor and farmer before becoming involved in politics.  He served as an agent for the Freedman’s Bureau and helped
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(1871) Senator Hiram Revels Calls For The End Of Segregated Schools
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901) of Mississippi was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate when he filled the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis. Revels served just over a year from February 25, 1870, to March 13, 1871. During an 1871 Senate debate over school segregation in
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Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement
In the article below, Syracuse University historian Herbert Ruffin explores the rapid rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement as the most recent development in the ongoing struggle for racial and social justice in the United
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Slavery in Oregon: The Reuben Shipley Saga
Few Americans realize that the institution of slavery reached the Pacific Northwest in the two decades before the Civil War.  A small number of the white settlers who followed the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City brought bondservants.  Oregon historian R. Gregory
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1853
Birth of a Nation
On February 18, 1915, the silent film Birth of a Nation (originally titled The Clansman) by director/producer D.W. Griffith premiered at Clunes Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The 12-reel, three-hour-long film was a first in American film history for its length, cost, music, and
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Robinson, Max (1939-1988)
Max Robinson was an American broadcast journalist for ABC News and served as a co-anchor for ABC World News Tonight. He was the first African American broadcast network news anchor in the history of American television. He was also one of the original founders of the National Association of Black
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1988
African-American Playwrights
Playwright August Wilson once said, For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something
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Dash, Stacey (1967- )
Stacey Lauretta Dash is an American actress and talk show host. She is most widely known for co-staring in the film Clueless (1995), which later turned into a television series (1996-1999). She is also cited for her recurring role in The Cosby Show (1984–1992), The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
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Lawrence Taylor
Named Lawrence Julius Taylor at the time of his birth in 1955 in Williamsburg, Virginia, Taylor was late in joining football as compared to the others in his field. Since he did not start playing until his junior year at Lafayette High School, Taylor was not highly recruited and so ended up at the
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Bashir, Omar Hassan Ahmad al- (1944 - )
OmarHassan Ahmad al-Bashir (or Umar Hassan Ahmad el-Bashir) became president ofSudan in 1993 but first gained military power in 1989 during an Islamist-backedcoup. He was born in the northern Sudan village of Hosh Bonnaga in
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington was a popular singer from the 1950s who sang jazz, blues, R&B and pop. Her birth name was Ruth Lee Jones. She was born on August 29, 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and moved to Chicago at a very young age. Her first exposure to music stemmed from the church, where she learned to
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