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The Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln went into effect.  The Proclamation, written the previous September, declared free all enslaved people in the Confederate States (or portions of those states) who resided in territory still in rebellion
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Jan
1
1863
African-American History Timeline: 1900 to 1909
In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was constitutional through the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Immediately local and state laws were created and in some cases, enhanced to prohibit African-Americans from participating fully in American society. However, almost
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Kevin Hart and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on the set of their new movie
Central Intelligence is an upcoming American action comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and written by Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and Rawson Marshall Thurber. The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart and is scheduled to be released on June
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Alice Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize
Alice Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple. Ten days later the novel will also win the American Book Award for fiction.
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Apr
18
1983
Biggs, Lodie (?--?)
Lodie Biggs, one of the few black professional women in pre-World War II Seattle, was also a significant political activist in the 1920s and 1930s.  She was also involved with the transformation of the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the
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Apr
10
1928
Black Soldiers in the Civil War | National Archives
The issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off a rush by free black men to enlist in U.S. military units. They wereturned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred Negroes from bearing arms for the
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Jul
17
1862
Ezion-Mount Carmel United Methodist Church [Wilmington, Delaware] (1789- )
Ezion-Mount Carmel United Methodist Church, formerly known as Ezion Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Carmel Methodist Episcopal Church, has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating black church in the state of Delaware.  Ezion Methodist Episcopal Church was created by the
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Tupac Shakur dies
The talented and controversial rapper and actor Tupac Shakur dies in Las Vegas at the age of 25 a few days after sustaining 4 bullet wounds.
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Sep
13
1996
5 Memorable Quotes That Make "Kill a Mockingbird" an Evergreen Classic
Harper Lee summarizes the story in the title -- To Kill a Mockingbird. A mockingbird represents innocence. The story tells us of an innocent man who is sentenced due to racial prejudice. Every To Kill a Mockingbird quote on this page preaches a universal
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Libya
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Brazil surpasses 10,000 coronavirus deaths
The country of 210 million inhabitants, the most affected in Latin America, could become the new global epicentre of the
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans, clearly fed up with the economic collapse and the lack of available necessities in Zimbabwe, expressed their anger at the polls in March 2008s presidential and parliamentary elections. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change won a majority of the seats in Parliament, a remarkable
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Jefferson F. Long born
Jefferson F. Long, a merchant and tailor, was born in Knoxville, Georgia. He became the first African American from Georgia elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving two months and 9 days.
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Mar
3
1836
Josephine Baker: Harlem Renaissance Creative
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her second husband, Willie Baker, whom she married at age
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Six days of rioting
One person was killed in six days of rioting in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Jul
29
1970
Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
In The Ties That Bound, professor and author Marie Jenkins Schwartz, examines the relationships that developed between the First Ladies and their slaves in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all
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Somalia
The U.S. launched airstrikes south of the capital, Mogadishu, in early September 2014, targeting the leader of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane. Days after the attacks, the U.S. confirmed that Godane had been killed. One of the most wanted men in Africa, Godane was believed
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Snoop Dogg
Name at birth: Cordozar Broadus
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Black History Month - African American Inventors
Patent absrtact - A smoke detector that comprises three different power sources. First one is the 110/220 volt AC house current, through a step down transformer or that can be hard wired into the home or factory. Second one is a moveable 9 volts rechargeable backup battery. Third one is a solar
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Fort, Syvilla (1917-1975)
Syvilla Fort, born on July 3, 1917 in Seattle, was a professional dancer in the 1930s and early 1940s and prominent dance instructor in New York City for three decades between 1948 and 1975.  Her dance style, which combined African, Caribbean, and American rhythms, influenced hundreds of
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Nov
8
1975
Hanno of Carthage and West Africa
Hanno of Carthage (c 5th century B.C.) left a bronze plaque in a temple to Baal as testimony to his voyage down the west coast of Africa to the land of the gorilla people. His bronze 18-line travelogue, or Periplus, was translated into Greek, and then copied over many times by Greek
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African Members of the Commonwealth of Nations A to Z
The following alphabetical list gives the date at which each African Country joined the Commonwealth of Nations as an independent state. (See also, an alphabetical list of all African countries with
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(1964) Fannie Lee Chaney, “Meridian Awakened”
Shortly after her son, James Chaney was murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 along with Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, Fannie Lee Chaney gave an address in which she vowed to continue the struggle for racial justice in her home state.  She also announced that 12 year old Ben
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A Timeline of Suge Knight's Criminal History
Once upon a time, Suge Marion Knight was the king of the west coast. He ran the studio and the streets. His friends ranged from famous rap stars to gang lords. Those days are
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The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King
April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and
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Apr
4
1968
Zora Neale Hurston’s Letter to the Orlando Sentinel, 1955
August 11, 1955
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Aug
11
1955
Andrea Tovar
Jealisse Andrea Tovar Velásquez (born 3 September 1993) simply known as Andrea Tovar, is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Colombia
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Jackson, Lisa Perez (1962-- )
Lisa Perez Jackson, the first African American Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), brings a wealth of experience to that agency.  A scientist by profession, she has spent more than 20 years working as an advocate for the better use and awareness of the
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Pam Grier
American actress Pamela Suzette Grier was born on May 26, 1949, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her parents were Gwendolyn Sylvia who worked as a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, Jr. who worked as a mechanic in U.S. Air Force. As a result, the family travelled a lot, and Grier lived in several
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May
26
1949
Zimbabwean woman feeds people starved by COVID-19
For the past 19 days, Samantha Murozoki, an immigration lawyer, has been helping the most vulnerable residents of her neighbourhood in
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