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On the ballot, home affordability - Dallas Examiner

By JOLI ANGEL ROBINSON Dallas City Council campaign season is heating up. By now, you have seen yard signs popping up in front yards, candidate forums, block walkers, and perhaps even mailers delivered [...]

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1881

Ex-slave left millions in will

The Georgia State Supreme Court sustained the will of the late David Dickson, thus making Amanda Eubanks the wealthiest Negro in America. Dickson, a former slaveholder, willed more than half a million dollars to Eubanks. White relatives of Dickson, a bachelor, had contested the will on the grounds

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12

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Percy Julian, developer of drugs to combat glaucom

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1990

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father was the first African American general in the U.S. Army

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May

22

1959

George and Noble Johnson founded the Lincoln Motion Picture Company in 1916. It was the first black-owned production company, it produced films exclusively for African

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1916

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1621

Wellington Webb is elected mayor

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Jun

18

1991

Naval Frigate named after African American

The Navy frigate USS Jesse L. Brown was commissioned. The ship was named for Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the first African American naval aviator killed in combat over Korea.

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17

1973

Zora Neale Hurston, writer/anthropologist born

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7

1891

Actress Ruby Dee in Shakespeare Festival

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Feb

1

1965

Army Brig. Gen. Sherian Grace CAdoria born.

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Jan

26

1940

Charlotte Ray graduates from Howard Law School.

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Feb

27

1872

Black Regiment founded

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3

1869

African American Jordan Freeman dies after killing Major William Montgomery in t

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6

1781

Jefferson F. Long born

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3

1836

The People's Savings Bank is incorporated in Philadelphia by former African Amer

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26

1907

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17

2001

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

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12

1930

Network news anchor

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19

1978

Reuben V. Anderson is appointed a judge

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11

1985

A Demonstration Led by NAACP

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4

1915

The first African American performers

The first African American performers, the Worlds Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall.

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Feb

13

1892

Rafer Johnson won the Olympic Decathlon

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Sep

6

1960

George "Little Chocolate" Dixon betas Jack Skelly in New Orleans to win the worl

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6

1892

Arthur Ashe, first African American American Davis

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Apr

10

1943

African American Captures British General

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3

2002

The American Nicodemus Town Company is founded

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Apr

18

1877

African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites

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2002

Civil Rights Movement

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20

1956

Congressman William Gray

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