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Rev. Richard Allen organies a Society of Free People of Color for Promoting the Instruction and School Educationof Children of African Descent in Phildadelpia, PA.
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1804
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Women's Anti-Slavery Organizer
Born in Salem, Sara Remond (1826-1894) was a leading organizer of women for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in the 1840s and 1850s. Protesting segregation in churches, theatres, and other public places, she won a civil court suit after being ejected from the Howard Athenaeum in Boston, which
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(1994) Sister Souljah, “We Are At War"
In 1993 Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson), a Bronx-born rapper, earned national notoriety thanks ironically to then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton who denounced her comments about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots as “hate driven and racist.”  Sister Souljah responded with her own
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Bessie Emery Head
Bessie Emery Head , (born July 6, 1937, Pietermaritzburg, S.Af.—died April 17, 1986, Serowe, Botswana), African writer who described the contradictions and shortcomings of pre- and postcolonial African society in morally didactic novels and
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17
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Robert Smalls steals Confederate ship
It has just gotten dark on the evening of May 12, 1862. General Roswell Ripley and the other white confederate officers of the
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12
1862
American Negro Academy: Promoting the Talented Tenth
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(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”
Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans.  By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa.   One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister
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4
1830
Celebrity Culture Will Never Be The Same
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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”
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New York Manumission Society opens a school forblacks in New York City, the Af
New York Manumission Society opens a school for blacks in New York City, the African Free School (schools are eventually transferred to city authorities).
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John V. DeGrasse, prominent physician, is admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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Jan
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1854
Martin Luther King
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Black Arts/West
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(1886) T. Thomas Fortune, “The Present Relations of Labor and Capitol”
In 1886, T. Thomas Fortune, born enslaved in Florida thirty years earlier, was already a newspaper owner and publisher in New York City and author of Black and White: Land, Labor and Politics in the Old South (1884), the first significant work to argue that class conflict rather than racial strife
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A Tunisian non-governmental organization, NGO, Sustainable Food Bank; is distributing food supplies to families adversely impacted by ongoing COVID-19
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American Colonization Society organized in hall of the House of Representatives .
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1816
'Still Cracking Up': Kenya Moore's Outing with Her Daughter Goes Left After Fans Mention Her Fight with Nene Leakes During the 'RHOA' Reunion
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Dr. Peter Murray Marshall installed as president of New York County Medical Society and became the first Black to head an American Medical Association unit.
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1954
(1836) James Forten, Jr. “Put on the Armour of Righteousness”
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1836
Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the
Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at
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Feb
12
1865
NBA community reacts to Moses Malone's death
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Jan
0
1789
Barnes, Emery (1929-1998)
Social worker, politician and professional football player Emery Barnes spent much of his life helping the disadvantaged in society and working for worldwide human rights and world peace.  Barnes was first elected to the British Columbia legislature in 1972 and was elected Speaker of the
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Boston African Society was established
Boston African Society was established with forty-four members.
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Aug
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1796
African-American Firsts in the 18th Century
By the 18th Century the 13 colonies were growing in population. To support this growth, Africans were bought to the colonies to be sold into enslavement. Being in bondage caused many to respond in various
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National Negro Convention Movement
In the early months of 1830, a young freed man from Baltimore named Hezekiel Grice was not satisfied with life in the North because of the hopelessness of contending against oppression in the United
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1830
Students Seize Columbia College Building
Student Afro-American Society seized the Columbia College admissions office and demanded a special admissions board and staff.
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