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(1964) George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”
By 1964 George C. Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, had become the national symbol of opposition to the civil rights movement and to federal governmental intervention to protect the rights of African Americans.  In the address below he denounces President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing into law the
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On October 2, 1937,Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He
On October 2, 1937,Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He became the noted controversial lawyer, who defended pro football star and actor, O.J. Simpson, in the infamous trial, for which Simpson was accused of killing wife and her friend. A member of the Dream Team.
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Oct
2
1937
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., preacher, civil rights activist, and national politician, was born to Mattie and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 29, 1908.  Young Powell grew up in New York City, New York since his father, a Baptist preacher, became pastor of the historic
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Buddy (Claude Henry Keystone) Young (1926-).
Buddy Young became the first black to score a Rose Bowl touchdown, in the University of Illinois vs. UCLA New Years Day game. Young joined the AAFC New York Yankees in 1947 and eventually played for the Cleveland Browns from 1953 to 1955. In 1964 he became the first director of players relations
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1926
St lucia
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(1889) John E. Bruce, “Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy”
The Negro must not be rash and indiscreet either in action or in his words but he must be very determined and terribly in earnest, and of one mind to bring order out of chaos and to convince Southern rowdies and cutthroats that more than two can play at the game with which they have amused their
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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”
In 1848 Benjamin Roberts filed a lawsuit against the city of Boston on behalf of his five year old daughter, Sarah, who was denied admission to schools in her neighborhood and instead assigned to the lone all-black school in the city.  Two attorneys, Robert Morris, one of the first black lawyers in
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15
1793
Eric Dickerson
Born in a small town of Sealy, Texas, in 1960, Eric Dickerson was raised by his uncle and aunt after his mother decided not to marry his father at the young age of 17. Even though he did not grow up with his father, Dickerson inherited athletic abilities from the former running back of Prairie View
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Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action.  In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th
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Knoxville College (1875- )
Knoxville College was founded in 1875 as a missionary effort of the United Presbyterian Church of North America in order to promote religious, moral, and educational leadership among freed men and women. Located north of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, in the city’s Mechanicsville community, the
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Ghana became an independent state
March 6th, 1957, the Gold Coast gained its independence from Great
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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (2006)
THE MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE (MCRI), PROPOSAL 2, AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION
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Egypt
National name: Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah
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Race riots, Longview and Gregg counties
Race riots, Longview and Gregg counties, Texas. Martial law declared. There were twenty-six riots during the Red Summer of 1919.
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13
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Deacon Jones
David Jones, also known as Deacon Jones, was a former professional American football player born on December 9, 1938 in Eatonville, Florida. He was an active sportsman during his childhood and played football, baseball, and basketball. He developed a tumor in his thigh as a teenager which he had to
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day.  King, in Memphis to support a strike by garbage workers, gives a poignant vision of the victorious future of the
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1968
Emmitt Smith
Born on May 15, 1969, in Pensacola, Florida Emmitt Smith wished to be one of the Dallas Cowboys from a young age but the enthusiastic individual had to face many struggles before he could pursue a career in professional football. Belonging to a financially weak family, Smith had to juggle between
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15
1969
Freddy Adu
Freddy Adu of Tema, Ghana, was born in 1989 and moved to the United States with his family at the age of eight. Adu had a nag for soccer from a young age and began competing in neighborhood matches at the age of four. From then on, Adu practiced every day to make his game
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Somalia
National name: Soomaaliya
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Race, Family, and Real Estate: Beryl Satter's Family Properties
In her new book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, historian Beryl Satter puts a human face on the often told story of racial discrimination in urban housing by following the career of her father, Chicago attorney Mark J. Satter, who was both an
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Somalia
Somalia, situated in the Horn of Africa, lies along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. It is bounded by Djibouti in the northwest, Ethiopia in the west, and Kenya in the southwest. In area it is slightly smaller than Texas. Generally arid and barren, Somalia has two chief rivers, the Shebelle
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DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)
A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871.  In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator.  DePriest created his own
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May
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Jones, David “Deacon” (1938-2013)
National Football League star David “Deacon” Jones was a dominant player in the League.  During Jones’ years on the football field he singlehandedly revolutionized the defensive end position. Throughout his fourteen-year stint in the NFL Jones managed to play in 190 games, missing only
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The Cotton Bag Fort
A African American Designs The Cotton Bag Fort: When Andrew Jackson assembled his force at New Orleans, his soldiers, many of whom were African American slaves, were outnumbered by the British forces ten to one. Faced with this disadvantage, Jackson consulted with men as to what was the best
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Michael Sam
Michael Sam is an American footballer who plays for the Dallas Cowboys. He is also one of the few openly gay players in the National Football League (NFL). He was born Michael Alan Sam Jr. to Jo Ann and Michael Sam, the seventh of eight children in the family. He attended Hitchcock High School in
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Western sahara proposed state
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(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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Ethiopia defeats Italy at Battle of Adowa
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