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Negritude Movement
The literary movement, Negritude, was born out of the Paris intellectual environment of 1930s and 1940s. It is a product of black writers joining together through the French language to assert their cultural
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Benjamin Zephaniah
Born: 4/15/1958 Handsworth,United KingdomEnglish poet and writer, born to West Indian parents. Zephaniah writes poetry influenced by Jamaican Rastafarian tradition. He is also a social activist in fields of civil rights, animal rights and vegetarianismBusiness / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:
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Slavery
Africans accompany Spanish colonizer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon
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Jan
0
1526
Meneeik II crowned
On November 2, 1889 Menelik II was crowned Negusa-Nagast (King of Kings) of Abysinnia, Ethiopia. By 1899 Abysinnia had extended as far as Kenya in the south, Somaliland in the East, and the Sudan in the West. During his reign, Menelik devoted much of his time to the building of
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Nov
2
1889
Paul Robeson and Japanese Americans, 1942-1949
One hero and friend of Japanese Americans, both individuals and the community generally, was Paul Robeson. Robeson was (after Joe Louis) the most popular and visible African American of the 1930s and 1940s. He was a celebrated stage actor and movie star, an internationally famous folk
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A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus
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Jan
0
1815
Chica da Silva (1731/5-1796)
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, better known as Chica da Silva (or spelled Xica da Silva), was a Brazilian woman born into slavery, who went on to gain her freedom and become a powerful and well-known member of Brazilian
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Florence Price, composer born
Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florences mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.She had her first recital by the age of four and had composed and published her first musical
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Apr
9
1888
Slavery
Great Britain enters the Atlantic slave trade after Sir John Hawkins carries enslaved Africans from Portugese Africa to Latin America and sells them to Spanish planters.
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Jan
0
1562
Ethiopia
National name: Ityopiya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik
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Estes, Simon (1938- )
Simon Lamont Estes is a prominent and critically acclaimed African American opera singer.  He has made singing appearances before six US presidents, including Barack Obama, numerous other presidents and world leaders, and dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  He has
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Johnson, Gregory Lee (1945- )
On August 5, 1999 President William Clinton appointed Gregory Lee Johnson U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland.  He served in that post from November 16, 1999 to October 18, 2001. Johnson began his career in the Foreign Service in 1968 and has served in Vietnam (1968-1971).  His next posts were in Japan
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Sissieretta Jones 1869-1933-Opera Singer
Sissieretta Jones born Matilda Joyner, enrolled in Providence Academy of Music at age fourteen and reported tohave completed training at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. With her rich soprano voice she was applauded as the first Negro prima donna. She was compared to Adelina Pattie an
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Jan
0
1869
Namibia gains independence
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1990
(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”
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Book of the Dead
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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary
Nnamdi Azikiwe, by now the best know nationalist leader in Nigeria, addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its 50th anniversary celebration at the Polo Grounds, New York City, July 19, 1959. His speech appears
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19
1959
American troops drove Spanish forces from Cuba
American troops, including Tenth Cavalry, drove Spanish forces from entrenched positions at La Guasimas, Cuba.
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Jun
24
1898
Charles W. Follis
Charles W. Follis, first African American to play professional football, born
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Apr
10
1910
Count Basie
William James Basie was one of the most notable jazz musicians of the 20th century. He was born on August 21, 1904 to Harvey Lee and Lillian Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey. Both his parents were musicians, which influenced Basie from an early age. His father played the mellophone, and his mother
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21
1904
Tarik, the Moor, invades Spain.
On April 30, 711AD General Tarik al Gibral, a Nafza Berber after whom the famed Rock of Gibralter is named, crossed to Andalus (Spain under the Visigoths) with a force of seven thousand troops. After several battles in which the Visigoths were completely routed, the Moorish-Berber-Arab force
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Apr
30
1971
O’Neal, Adrienne S. (1954- )
In 2011, Adrienne S. O’Neal, career Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde). O’Neal was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 to Samuel and Vernese Boulware ONeal. Her
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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  His acceptance speech appears
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Dec
10
1964
Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and formergovernor of the Virgin I
Archie A. Alexander, architectural engineer and former
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Jan
4
1958
Slavery
Africans and Spaniards establish settlements from what is present-day Florida to California, and as far north as present-day Kansas.
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Jan
0
1538
Tom Molineaux, a native born American fights Tom Cribbin a controversial bosin
Tom Molineaux, a native born American fights Tom Cribb in a controversial bosing match, Copthall Common, England; a referee allows Cribb two minutes to revive after he is knocked down, and Cribb eventually wins the match after 43 rounds.
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Jan
0
1810
Warren Moon
Warren Moon is a retired football player, who played for the Canadian and American football leagues. He was born in Los Angeles, California on November 18, 1956 and was the only brother of 6 sisters. His father was a laborer who died of liver disease when Warren was a young child and his mother was
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Nov
18
1956
(1865) Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”
On Saturday March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated and began his second term as President.  His address to the audience of thousands of spectators was brief, one of the shortest inaugural addresses on record.  The Civil War was drawing to a close as Union Armies were bearing down
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Soccer great Pele retires.
Soccer great Pele retires.
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1
1977
Yaoundé, Cameroon (1888- )
Yaoundé is the capital and second largest city of Cameroon. Georg Zenker, a German scientist, led a group of people who settled Yaoundé in 1888. Yaoundé is located in the Ewondo region between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers in southern Cameroon. In 2012 an estimated 2.4 million people resided in
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Jan
1
1960
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