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Activist and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., elected congressman from Harlem
Activist and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., elected congressman from Harlem, 1945
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Jul
30
1945
Shady Grove Baptist Church was burned in Leesburg,
Shady Grove Baptist Church was burned in Leesburg, Georgia.
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Aug
15
1962
Fair Employment Practices Commission.
On March 12, 1945, New York was the first state to established a Fair Employment Practices Commission.
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Mar
12
1945
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1712 - A New York act bans black mulatoos and Native Americans from home ownership.
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Jan
0
1712
Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Mama” (1926-1984)
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was a blues singer and songwriter whose recordings of “Hound Dog” and “Ball ‘n’ Chain” later were transformed into huge hits by Elvis Presley and Janis
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Jul
25
1984
National Baptist Convention
These Baptist groups, the Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, the American National Baptist Convention, the Baptist National Education Convention, Merged and established the National Baptist Convention at an Atlanta meeting.
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Sep
28
1895
Roland Hayes' Fifth American Tour
Roland Hayes opened his fifth American Tour at New Yorks Carnegie Hall packed with admirers.
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Nov
15
1928
Young, Andrew (1932 - )
Andrew Young, Jr., came into prominence as a civil rights activist and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the modern civil rights movement in the United States.  Young worked with various organizations early in the movement, but his civil rights work was largely done with the
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Mar
12
1932
Demonstrations for housing, school and jobs
Civil rights group demonstrated at Harlem construction sites to Protest discrimination in building trades unions. Demonstrations and marches were held in metropolitan areas in June, July and August to dramatize discontent over housing, school and job discrimination.
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Jun
12
1963
Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club
Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club in
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Dec
4
1927
Dancer Bojangles dies
Tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson dies in New York city.
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Nov
28
1949
Joe Frazier knocks out Jimmy Ellis
Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the second round of their New York fight and became the world heavyweight boxing champion.
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Feb
16
1970
African Free School opened
African Free School opened in New York.
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Oct
10
1788
Adams, Henry [Kentucky] (1802–1872)
Henry Adams was a prominent black Baptist minister and advocate for African American education who worked in Georgia and later in Louisville, Kentucky. Adams was born in Franklin County, Georgia in 1802.  He obtained a license to preach at the age of 18 and was ordained on October 29, 1825.  Adams
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Oct
29
1825
Zora Neale Hurston
Born: 1/7/1891 Notasulga, AlabamaDied: 1/28/1960 Fort Pierce, FloridaZora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurstons four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes
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Foster, Abigail Kelley
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Katherine Dunham (1910-)
American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She was a pioneer in the use of folk and ethnic choreography, and considered one of the founders of the anthropological dance movement. With Aida in 1963, she became the first Black to choreograph for the Metropolitan Opera in New York city.
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Sep
6
2001
Slavery Abolishment
Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery. By 1783 slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law in 1780. Connecticut and Rhode Island barred slavery in 1784 and were followed by New York (gradual emancipation) and New
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Jul
2
1777
Actress Diahnn Carrol born
Birthday of singer and actress Diahnn Carroll in the Bronx, NY.
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Jul
17
1944
Langston Hughes
One of the most famous poets, Langston Hughes was born in the year
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Feb
1
1902
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm, a New York Democrat, is the 1st African American woman elected to Congress.
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Nov
5
1974
J.Raymond Jones
J. Raymond Jones elected leader of New York Democratic organization (Tammany Hall).
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Dec
3
1964
St lucia
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Two hundred Black leaders met in New York,
Two hundred Black leaders, meeting in New York, expressed support for Andrew Young and demanded that Blacks be given a voice in shaping American foreign policy.
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Aug
22
1979
African Heritage
All Caribbean stories are known as Ananse stories even if Ananse does not appear in them. Ananse is the god of joke and trickery from the Ashanti peoples of Ghana. He was the unseen passenger on the slave ships and played a very important function in keeping the dispossed Africans connected to the
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Jan
0
1999
Spingarn Award: Mary Mcleod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune awarded Spingarn Medal for her work as founder-president of Bethune Cookman College and her national leadership.
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Dec
5
1935
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
Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard born
Sugar Ray Leonard
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May
17
1956
Social Movement
April 3, 1962. In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the Birmingham,AL, City Commission voted not to pay the citys $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP
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Apr
3
1962
National Council of Negro Women founded
National Council of Negro Women founded in New York City with Mary McLeod Bethune as president.
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Dec
5
1935
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