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National HBCU Football Rankings 11.8.21

HBCU Football is one of the most important parts of Black college culture. The pride that exudes from your team having a successful season can empower trash talk amongst your friends for a full 365 days.

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Alabama and Mississippi Democrats bolted the Democratic convention after adoption of a strong civil rights plank.

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14

1948

Solomon George Washington Dill killed

Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of Black Republicans, assassinated in his home by white terrorists. Dill had allegedly made incendiary speeches to South Carolina Blacks.

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Jun

1

1864

Franics L Cardoza elected State Treasurer ofSouth Carolina

Franics L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina

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Jan

29

1872

Anti-Lynching Bill proposed

Black Congressman George H. White, North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. One report contends that in 1900, 105 Africans were lynched in the United States.

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Jan

20

1773

Selma March begins

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads thousands of people on a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama to call for voting rights for African Americans.

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Mar

21

1965

Bacon's Rebellion

African Americans fought in the first armed rebellion against British authority in the colonies, Bacons Rebellion, in 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the rising generation of colonial planters who resented British rule and, particularly, the British protection of Indian lands that lay just

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Mar

26

2002

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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Apr

3

1865

Lincoln University

The oldest Historically Black University in the US, Lincoln University, chartered as Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

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Jan

1

1854

Black student Harvey Gantt entered Clemson College in South Carolina, the last s

Black student Harvey Gantt entered Clemson College in South Carolina, the last state to hold out against integration.

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Jan

28

1963

Battle at Milliken's Bend

Three regiments and small detachment of white troops repulsed division of Texans in hand-to-hand battle at Millikens Bend, Louisiana.

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Jun

7

1863

Garcia And Fort Negro: After the War of 1812, over three hundred African Americans occupied an abandoned British fort on the banks of the Apalachicola River in what is now Florida. Known as Fort Negro, it was headed by an African American man named Garcia. The heavily armed fort became a symbol of

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Jul

27

1816

Barney L. Ford, Gold Miner, born

Early Colorado gold miner, hotel magnate and entreprenuer, former slave Barney L. Ford, was born in Stafford Court House, Virginia. Through a number of business dealings, Ford became a wealthy man but was dogged by a series of tragic accidents. The restaurants and hotels he owned in

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Jan

22

1822

Montgomery, Ala., protest

Montgomery, Ala., police broke up protest demonstration on Alabama State campus and arrested thirty-five students, a teacher and her husband.

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Mar

1

1960

Denouncement of Klan violence

Gov. William W. Holden of North Carolina denounced Klan violence and issued proclaimation declaring Almanance County in a state of insurrection.

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Mar

7

1870

93rd Infantry activated and assigned to combat in the South Pacific; the first African American division formed during World War II

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May

15

1942

Andre Ware of the University of Houston becomes the first African American quart

Andre Ware of the University of Houston becomes the first African American quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy.

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Dec

2

1989

In Tuskegee, Alabama, the Rosenwald Fund made grants to the Alabama State Board

In Tuskegee, Alabama, the Rosenwald Fund made grants to the Alabama State Board of Health to help meet the cost of a sutdy of syphilis in African American men living in rural Georgia and Alabama. Thus would begin a four decade long study of syphilis without treatment. Over 400 men were allowed to

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Feb

12

1930

Major race riot, Miami, Florida

Major race riot, Miami, Florida. Sixteen persons were killed and more than three hundred were injured.

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May

17

1980

Fifty-third Congress (1893-95) convened

Fifty-third Congress (1893-95) convened. One Black congressman, George W. Marray, South Carolina.

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Aug

7

1893

First Black Elected Officials

Rev. K.L. Buford and Dr. Stanley Smith were elected to Tuskegee City Council and became first Black elected officials in Alabama in twentieth century.

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Sep

15

1964

Anti-Slavery Law

The provisional governor of Florida abolishes slavery by proclamation.

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Aug

3

1865

First Black student, Vivian Malone, graduated from

First Black student, Vivian Malone, graduated from the University of Alabama.

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May

30

1965

The Virginia court rules in favor of John Graweere,an indentured servant who p

The Virginia court rules in favor of John Graweere, an indentured servant who petitioned the court for permission to purchase his childs freedom from the owner of the childs mother.

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Jan

0

1641

Nat King Cole born

Singer Nathaniel Nat King Cole, born in Mongomery, Alabama.

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Mar

19

1919

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1733 - Spanish decree promises escaped English slaves freedom in Florida.

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Jan

0

1733

First Black To Lead Army Division

Maj. Gen. Frederic E. Davidson assumed command of the Eighth Infantry Division in Germany and became the first Black to lead an army division.

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Apr

19

1960

Sit-in Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina

Four students form North Carolina A&T College started Sit-in movement at Greensboro, N.C., five-and-dime store. By February 10 movement had spread to fifteen Southern cities in five states.

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Feb

1

1960

Leander Jay Shaw, Jr., justice of the Florida State Supreme Court (1983), first

Leander Jay Shaw, Jr., justice of the Florida State Supreme Court (1983), first African American chief justice (1990) in Florida, the second African American chief justice in any state supreme court, born

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Sep

6

1930

Forty-third Congress (1873-75) Convened

Forty-third Congress (1873-75) convened with seven Black congressmen: Richard H. Cain, Robert Brown Elliott, Joseph H. Rainey and Alonzo J. Ransier, South Carolina; James T. Rapier, Alabama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; John R. Lynch, Mississippi.

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Dec

1

1873

U of Alabama First Black Student

Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first black student to attend the University of

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3

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