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Bennie W. Fowler
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Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago)
Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago), the first old-line legal reserve company organized by Blacks in the North, incorporated. U.S. Supreme Court (Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia) banned segregation in interstate bus travel.
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3
1919
Arthur Mitchell, dancer
Arthur Mitchell, first African American principal of the New York City Ballet Company and founder, Dance Theatre of Harlem, born
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Mar
27
1934
Slavery
The Dutch West India Company is chartered, initiatingDutch merchants into the Atlantic slave trade; thecharter grants a translantic trade monopoly for 24 years.
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Jan
0
1621
Co-organizer of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, John Merrick was b
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Sep
7
1859
Hubert Ogunde
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4
1990
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African-American Dancers
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Hutchins, Hutchen R. (1903-1990)
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28
1990
Lincoln Motion Picture Company
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Central Life Insurance Company, the last surviving African American owned insura
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1991
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19
1775
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The African Insurance Company (1810-1813)
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12
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Black Man Founds the City of Centerville
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8
1875
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18
1877
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0
1916
Chinua Achebe
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2013
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Nov
13
1956
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Feb
0
1644
Marcus Garvey
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