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First cadets graduated from flying school
First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.
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Mar
7
1942
Blacks Denied The Right To Enlist
General Washington issued order which forbade recruiting officers to enlist Blacks.
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Nov
12
1775
School Integration Begins
School integration began in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., public schools.
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Sep
27
1954
Portsmouth (Ohio) Blacks forcibly deported
Portsmouth (Ohio) Blacks forcibly deported by order of city officials.
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Jan
21
1830
President Eisenhower ordered federalized National
President Eisenhower ordered federalized National Guard removed from Central High School, Little Rock.
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May
8
1958
U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson)
U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) upheld doctrine of separate but equal and began age of Jim Crow.
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May
18
1896
White Hall Arts Academy receives $25,000 music grant -
LOS ANGELES — The White Hall Arts Academy has received a $25,000 grant from the Lewis Prize for Music. Founded in 2011 in the heart of the Crenshaw District, White Hall Arts Academy offers private music lessons and classes for all ages in piano, guitar/bass, voice, strings, drums, songwriting and
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The Pennsylvania Society appoints a committee to superviseinstruction of free
The Pennsylvania Society appoints a committee to superviseinstruction of free blackyouth and to encourage theirschool attendance.
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Jan
0
1790
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
Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born
Katherine Dunham
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Jun
22
1912
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 Free School
First free school in New York City, the African Free School opened.
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Nov
1
1787
Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson,
Ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belfonte and A. Phillip Randolph, participated in the Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington. Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, and the nine students who integrated Little Rockss Central High School were awarded
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Oct
25
1958
The first Black person to graduate from Harvard Dental School is Robert T Freema
The first Black person to graduate from Harvard Dental School is Robert T Freeman, 1867
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Sep
1
1867
School established
The Cheyney State Training School was established in Pennsylvania.
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Dec
25
1837
United Order of True Reformer
United Order of True Reformer established.
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Dec
24
1881
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
Born: 7/16/1862 Holly Springs, MississippiDied: 3/25/1931 Chicago, IllinoisIda Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights MovementBusiness
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First Jazz Concert in Boston Church
A jazz concert of sacred music by the legendary Duke Ellington and his orchestra was performed at Union Methodist Church in July, 1966, the first time a jazz performance had been held in a Boston church.
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Lambert, Charles Lucièn, Sr. (1828-1896)
Charles Lucièn Lambert, Sr., also known as Lucièn Lambert, Sr., was an internationally prominent classical musician and composer, and part of the middle generation of acclaimed Lambert musical artists.  Both his father, Charles-Richard Lambert, and his son, Lucièn-Léon Guillaume Lambert, had
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Boston, MA, blacks led by Masonic organizer and abolitionistPrince Hall, petit
Boston, MA, blacks led by Masonic organizer and abolitionist Prince Hall, petition the legislature for equal school facilities for blacks.
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Jan
0
1787
President Truman created Committee on Civil Rights
President Truman created Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order No. 9808. Two Blacks Attorney Sadie M. Alexander and Channing H. Tobias were members of the committee.
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Dec
5
1946
Limpopo graduate shakes up the gospel music industry
Laughter's parents bought him a toy guitar and microphone when he was only five years old. Today, at 23, he's ready to shake up the gospel music industry.
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Mob attacked Freedom Riders in Montgomery
Mob attacked Freedom Riders in Montgomery. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy dispatched four hundred U.S. marshals to Montgomery to keep order in Freedom Rider controversy.
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May
20
1961
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
Robert C. Maynard
Robert C. Maynard becomes the first African American to gain a controlling interest in a major metropolitan newspaper when he buys the Oakland Tribune from Gannett.
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Apr
30
1983
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
Black Students Escorted To School
Soldiers of 101st Airborne Division escorted nine Black students to Central High school.
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Sep
24
1957
Arroyo, Martina (1936- )
Born to a Puerto Rican father and African American mother, Martina Arroyo was a world-renowned operatic soprano from the 1960s through 1989, the year of her professional retirement. She and her contemporaries were the first generation of African American opera soloists to attain international
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At a New York City conference, representatives of
At a New York City conference, representatives of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service planned a coordinated legal campaign against segregation and discrimination. Charles H. Houston, Vice-dean of the Howard University Law School, was named director of the NAACP legal campaign.
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Oct
26
1934
Sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
Members of NAACP Youth Council began series of sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters.
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Aug
19
1958
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