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Beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade
In order to encourage Spanish emigration to the Americas, Bishop Bartolomeo de las Casas, conquistador, persuades the Spanish Crown to allow each Spanish settler to import 12 enslaved Africans to the Americas; this is the formal beginning of the Atlantic slave trade; when Bishop las Casas dies in
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Jan
0
1517
The Aretha Franklin Amphitheater Postpones All Currently Ticketed Summer 2020 Performance Dates to 2021
Like so many performing arts venues, organizations and businesses, The Aretha Franklin Amphitheater’s 2020 ticketed performances have been affected by the COVID-19
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Reginald F. Lewis
Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first Black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holding Inc. With TLCs leverage
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Dec
7
1942
Local composer to conduct Mass concert in New York
Local composer, author and music specialist at Elm Creative Arts School in Milwaukee, Wallace McClain Cheatham will be conducting Franz Peter Schuberts Mass In G Major for solo voice, chorus and full orchestra in May, 2021 at New Yorks prestigious Carnegie Hall. Dr. Cheatham was a public school
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School established
The Cheyney State Training School was established in Pennsylvania.
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Dec
25
1837
Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which
Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which banned segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on the buses were served on city, state and bus company officials, December 20. At two mass meetings Montgomery Blacks called off year-long bus
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Nov
13
1956
Kenya: Take Five With Billy Black
He describes himself as "a 26-year-old boy from Migori living in Nairobi, who just finished his degree in sound engineering at the School of Audio Engineering in Cape
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First day school for freedmen
First day school for freedmen founded at Fortress Monroe, Va., with a Black teacher, Mary Peake.
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Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Sep
17
1861
U.S. Rep. Floyd Flake born
U.S. Rep. Floyd Flake, D-New York, was born in Los Angeles, California. A businessman and minister, Flake established the Allen Christian School and Allen Home Care Agency.
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Jan
30
1945
First cadets graduated from flying school
First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.
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Mar
7
1942
Anglican missionaries establish a school for blacksin South Carolina.
Anglican missionaries establish a school for blacksin South Carolina.
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Jan
0
1744
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price has achieved heights in the music world that many aspire to but that very few reach. As a singer she became famous all around the world. Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927. As a youth, she sang in church choirs. Later, she attended Central State
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Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Feb
10
1927
Integration Attempt Causes An Uproar
Rev. F.L. Shuttlesworth mobbed when he attempted to enroll his daughters in white Birmingham school.
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Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Sep
9
1957
In Fortress Monroe, American Missonary Association school was established, VA, 1
In Fortress Monroe, American Missonary Association school was established, VA, 1861
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Sep
17
1861
Black Students Barred From School
Black students entered Clay, Ky., elementary school under National Guard protection. They were barred from the school on September 17.
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Sep
12
1956
Supreme Court reversed decision of lower court
Supreme Court reversed decision of lower court which had confirmed $100,000 contempt fine imposed by Alabama on NAACP for refusing to divulge membership.
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Jun
30
1958
General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
On January 16, 1865, Union General William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 which confiscated as Federal property a strip of coastal land extending about 30 miles inland from the Atlantic and stretching from Charleston, South Carolina 245 miles south to Jacksonville, Florida. The order
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Jan
16
1865
First Black College Founded in Tennesee
The first Black college founded in Tennesee was Fisk University. Although work on the school was started in October 1865, it did not become incorporated under Tennesee law until this day.
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Sponsored by BARBinc
Aug
22
1867
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates, George Washingtons adjutant general issued order excluding Blacks from Continental Army.
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Sponsored by NSBE Boston
Jul
10
1775
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton is a religious leader and political activist. He was born on October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father left the family and Sharpton was raised by his mother. They had to move to the public housing projects, where his mother worked as a maid and supported the family on her
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Oct
3
1954
Ellas Neau, a French immigrant, opens the Carechism Schoolfor black slaves in
Ellas Neau, a French immigrant, opens the Carechism School for black slaves in New York City with help from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; by 1708 he is instructing more than 200 pupils.
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Jan
0
1704
Executive Order 9808
In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil
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Dec
5
1946
METCO
METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity), is Americas longest running voluntary school desegregation
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Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Dec
13
1960
African Free School opened
African Free School opened in New York.
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Oct
10
1788
The Riot of 1898
In November 1898, in two days of racial violence, a mob of whites, led by some of Wilmingtons most respected and influential citizens, destroyed the states only daily African American newspaper. Coroner reports confirm nine blacks were killed; some estimate hundreds died. Scores of others were
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Nov
8
1898
Guardian Newspaper
The Guardian newspaper was founded by William Monroe Trotter in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Nov
9
1901
First Black Daily Newspaper In Modern Times
Founded on this day by William A. Scott, III, the Atlanta Daily World was the first Black daily newspaper in modern times.
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Aug
3
1928
Blacks Denied The Right To Enlist
General Washington issued order which forbade recruiting officers to enlist Blacks.
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Nov
12
1775
First U.S. Army flying school for Black cadets
First U.S. Army flying school for Black cadets dedicated at Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Jul
19
1941
Alexander Thomas Augusta
Alexander Thomas Augusta, first African American faculty member of an American medical school, Howard University, is born free
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Mar
8
1825
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