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Coretta Scott is born
Coretta Scott is born in Marion, Ala. She will marry Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1953 and be an integral part of his civil rights activities. After his assassination in 1968, she will continue her civil rights activities, founding the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change in
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Apr
27
1927
U.S. House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
U.S. House of Representatives expelled Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. by a vote of 307 to 116. Civil rights leaders said Powell was ousted because of his race.
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Mar
1
1967
American Indian Place Names
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Malin Akerman
Malin Akerman is a Canadian actress who plays Miss Jupiter (Silk Spectre II) in the 2009 film version of Alan Moores graphic novel, Watchmen (also starring Billy Crudup). Born in Sweden, Akerman was raised in Canada and started her career in front of the camera as a model. She moved to California
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William H. Rehnquist
William H. Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice despite opposition of civil rights organizations.
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Dec
10
1971
LeMelle, Wilbert J., Sr. (1931-2003)
Wilbert J. LeMelle, Sr., was a scholar, development specialist, and ambassador to Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles between 1977 and 1980.  In both his academic and diplomatic work, LeMelle urged the United States to become more engaged in Africa, focusing on economic development and human
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Oprah Winfrey
Born: 1/29/1954 Kosciusko, MississippiOprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986
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Georgia Equal Rights Association organized.
Georgia Equal Rights Association organized.
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Jan
10
1866
Ella Baker
Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia. A civil rights worker who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP, Baker will become executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960s during student integration of lunch counters in the southern states. She also will play
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Dec
13
1903
Tomlinson, Maurice (1971- )
Maurice Tomlinson is one of the most well-known gay rights activists in the world. He is an attorney-at-law, law lecturer, journalist, and HIV/AIDS and LGBTI (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Intersexual) activist in Jamaica and the
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Apr
9
1971
The 15th Amendment.
On March 30, 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment secured voting rights for all male U.S. citizens.
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Mar
30
1870
(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”
On March 2, 1807 Congress enacted a law that banned the external slave trade beginning January 1, 1808. With that act enslaved persons could no longer be brought to the United States. Although the law would be frequently violated until the eve of the Civil War, many black and white anti-slavery
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Shooting of Civil Rights Activist
Sammy Younge, Jr., 21, was shot to death by a 67 year old white service station attendant. A Tuskegee Institute student and civil rights activist, Younge was shot after using the Whites only restroom at the service station where the white attendant was working.
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Jan
3
1966
W.E.B. DuBois
Born: 2/23/868 Great Barrington, MassachusettsDied: 8/27/963 Accra, GhanaWilliam Edward Burghardt W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and
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Feb
3
1998
Mary McLeod Bethune Born
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, born in Mayesville, South Carolina.
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Jul
10
1875
Tamblyn, George
George Tamblyn is a Seattle Lawyer and a member of Advocates Law Group. He attended Colgate University and Cornell Law School. He specializes in commercial transactions, real estate, and related litigation. He is a former Ph.D candidate in History at the University of Washington (concentrating in
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Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. US
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Dec
18
1944
Fudge, Marcia (1952 - )
Democrat Marcia Fudge is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 11th Congressional District of Ohio since November 2008. She was the first female African American mayor of Warrensville Heights, a predominantly middle-class black suburban city outside of Cleveland.  She
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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May
8
1879
Anna Julia Cooper passes
Anna Julia Cooper, champion for the rights of black women, dies at the age of 105.
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Feb
27
1964
Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women's Rights Convention, Akron Ohio
Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Womens Rights Convention, Akron Ohio
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Jan
25
1851
Jimmie Lee Jackson dies
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, died of injuries reportedly inflicted by officers in Marion, Alabama.
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Feb
26
1965
Marches for the right to vote
James Meredith wounded by white sniper as he walked along U.S. Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi, on second day of 220-mile voter registration march from Memphis to Jackson. March was continued on June 7 by Martin Luther King Jr., Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and other civil rights
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Jun
6
1966
Blacks held mass meeting in Norfolk (Va.) and
Blacks held mass meeting in Norfolk (Va.) and demanded equal rights and ballots. Other equal rights meetings and conventions were held in Petersburg, Va., June 6; Vicksburg, Miss., June 19; Alexandria, Va., August 3; Nashville, Tenn., August 7-11; Raleigh, N.C., September 29-October
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May
11
1965
U.S. Supreme Court declared Civil Rights Act of
U.S. Supreme Court declared Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.
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Oct
15
1883
Malcolm X
Born: 5/19/1925 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.Died: 2/21/1965 New York City, New YorkMalcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز), was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of
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Protestors Arrested in Birmingham
An established 2,543 African American and white civil rights demonstrators protesting segregation were arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama.
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May
2
1963
Civil rights activist WEB Dubois, founds the Niagra Movement
Civil rights activist WEB Dubois, founds the Niagra Movement
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Jul
11
1943
Negro Repertory Company (Seattle) 1936-1939
The Negro Repertory Company (NRC) was established in 1936 by Florence and James Burton, directors of the Seattle Repertory Playhouse (SRP), as the Negro unit of the Federal Theatre Program, a part of the WPA. In its short life it produced ambitious and controversial plays that reached a wide
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Oct
27
1936
Menchú, Rigoberta
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