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Rapper NBA YoungBoy Wants To Become A Mormon

NBA YoungBoy is ditching rap for the religious life.

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Creole New Orleans newspaper editor Paul Trévigne, thebiracial son of a Battle of New Orleans veteran, was born in New Orleans in1825. Trévigne was part of the free people of color community in Louisiana thatprotested racial injustice before the Civil War and helped establish Republicanpolitics in

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1811

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13

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27

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Charles Deslandes lead Louisana slave revolt

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8

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St. John A.M.E Church Topeka, Kansas (1868- )

St. John African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Topeka, Kansas was officially organized in 1877 when it was chartered by Reverend John M. Wilkerson of the Missouri African Methodist Episcopal Conference. In 1868, nine years before the charter, however, early black settlers, many of whom

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29

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Joint Resoultion

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Scott, Dred (1795-1858)

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(1893) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law In All Its Phases,”

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Congress cracks down on civil rights for blacks

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25

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A New Governor Of Louisiana

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Eight Acres of History: Lexington's African Cemetery No. 2

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Negro Baseball League Timeline

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(1988) Rev. Jesse Jackson, “Keep Hope Alive.”

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(2017) New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

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LeMelle, Wilbert J., Sr. (1931-2003)

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Nash, Charles Edmund (1844-1913)

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May

23

1844

PBS Pinchback, born

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May

10

1837

Attorney General George Williams

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12

1872

Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers (1853-1890)

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The Slaughter House Cases (1873)

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1873

Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas

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