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Fans everywhere are mourning the loss of actress Natalie Desselle Reid, 53, who passed away December 7 after a quiet battle with colon cancer.

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Laurence Fishburne is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He was born on July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia to Hattie Bell and Laurence John Fishburne, Jr. His parents divorced when he was very young and he moved to Brooklyn, New York with his mother while visiting his father once

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1961

(1860) Abraham Lincoln, “Cooper Union Address”

On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a presidential candidate who had yet to win the Republican nomination, accepted an invitation to speak to the Young Mens Republican Union at Cooper Union Hall before a capacity crowd of 1,500. Lincoln used the occasion to outline his views on slavery in the

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Feb

27

1860

Claimed Pres. Election

President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claimed the presidential election. Republicans and Democrats claimed elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.

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Nov

7

1876

Angela Bassett, actress born

Angela Bassett ACTRESS Birthplace: New York, New York August 16, 1958- Angela has starred in the following films: The Jacksons: An American Dream Malcolm X Whats Love Got To Do With It? (received Oscar nomination) Strange Days Vampire in Brooklyn

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Aug

16

1958

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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Democrats suppressed Black vote

Democrats suppressed Black vote by fraud and violence and carried Mississippi election. The Mississippi Plan staged riots, political assassinations, massacres and social and economic intimidation was used later to overthrow Reconstruction governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.

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Nov

2

1875

Morgan Freeman won the Academy Award as best supporting actor for his role as a world-weary ex-boxer in the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby. Morgan Freeman kicked around TV and movies during the 1970s and 80s as a reliable supporting character, then became a familiar face in the movies after his

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Loren Miller: Legal Crusader in the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century

In the essay below, journalist and historian Amina Hassan describes her 2015 biography of Loren Miller, a significant but understudied figure in the long twentieth century campaign for civil rights and racial

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Dec

5

1945

Oscar Robertson

Oscar Palmer Robertson is a retired professional basketball player. He was born on November 24, 1938 in Charlotte, Tennessee. He lived in a segregated housing project and attended a segregated high school called Crispus Attucks High School. He learned to play basketball at a very young age. His

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Nov

24

1938

Alexander, Archer (ca. 1810-1879)

Archer Alexander was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation around the year 1810. His likeness, in face and figure, immortalizes all American slaves on a monument to emancipation that stands in Lincoln Park in Washington, D. C. The bronze monument Emancipation, also known as the Freedmens

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Flake, Green (1828-1903)

Born enslaved on January 6, 1828 on the Jordan Flake Plantation in Anson County, North Carolina, Green Flake at the age of ten was given as a wedding gift to James Madison Flake, Jordan’s son who married Agnes Love in 1838 in Anson County, North Carolina. The couple moved shortly thereafter to

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(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!

? For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in R

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(1864) Arnold Bertonneau, “Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law”

Reconstruction began in Federally-occupied Louisiana in the midst of the Civil War. In 1863 African American men in New Orleans called for the right to vote in the new loyal government being organized under Union Army protection. However when President Lincoln announced his new reconstruction

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

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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”

In the following article drawn from his book, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick introduces us to the world of philosopher William Fontaine, one of the few African American faculty members at an Ivy League

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Eartha Kitt was a singer and actress who recorded the hit holiday song “Santa Baby”. She was born on January 17, 1927 in South Carolina to an African American mother and a white father. She was raised by Anna Mae Riley, as her biological mother had abandoned her. It wasn’t until later

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17

1927

(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

Louisiana governor conferred with president on KKK

Louisiana governor conferred with president on KKK violence in his state.

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Nov

20

1922

Metcalfe, Ralph Harold (1910-1978)

Ralph Metcalfe, was an outstanding U.S. sprinter, track coach, and politican born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During Metcalfe’s years as a student at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1932 through 1934, he was arguably the world’s fastest human. His strong

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Roudanez, Louis Charles (1823-1890)

Physician and newspaper publisher, Louis Charles Roudanez was born free in June of 1823 in Saint James Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of a French merchant named Louis Roudanez and a black woman named Aimée Potens. Though his baptismal record registers him as white, Roudanez identified as

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Riot, Mobile, Ala., after a Black mass meeting

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May

14

1867

Landry, Pierre Caliste (1841-1921)

Pierre Caliste Landry, a former slave turned educator and minister, is noted as the first African American to be elected mayor of a town in the Unites States. Landry was born into slavery on April 19, 1841 on a sugar cane plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. He was given the name Caliste at

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19

1841

Menard, John Willis (1838-1893)

John Willis Menard, abolitionist, author, journalist and politician, was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia, Illinois, to French Creole parents. He was the first African American elected to Congress, but was not seated after a dispute over the election results. Menard attended Iberia College, an

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Joint Resoultion

Gov. Henry C. Warmoth endorsed a joint resolution of the legislature calling for federal military aid. Warmoth said there had been 150 political assassinations in Louisiana in June and July.

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Aug

1

1868

President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation

President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in

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Jan

1

1863

Dawson, William Levi (1886-1970)

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(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”

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Feb

23

1869

(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”

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