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If you have been on island recently, you may have noticed a lot of workers on the roads, in the parking lots and at dump sites. If you come down frequently, you may have taken note over time of the diminishing number of derelict vehicles, trash on the roadsides, potholes in the roads and jumbled ... Read moreSt. John Improvements Update!

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13

1966

Stokes, Louis (1925-2015)

Ohio’s first African American Congressman, Louis Stokes was born to Charles and Louis Stokes on February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended its public schools before joining the United States Army in 1943. Stokes served in the army for three years and then attended Western Reserve

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3

1969

Smith, Charles Z. (1927-2016)

On July 18, 1988, Charles Z. Smith became the first African American to serve on the Washington Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court by Washington’s then Governor Booth Gardner and was subsequently elected to his position on the court for a two-year term in 1988. Justice Smith was elected

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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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Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination (1949)

Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination

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Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

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St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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Young, Andrew (1932 - )

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12

1932

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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”

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2016

Governor W.W. Holden

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1870

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Equatorial Guinea

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(1922) Wyatt Mordecai Johnson, “The Faith of the American Negro”

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1922

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6

1960

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(1995) Louis Farrakhan, “A Million Men Marching On"

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Hendrix, Jimi (1942-1970)

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Miller, Thomas E. (1849-1938)

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8

1938

The Baptist War (1831-1832)

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Clyburn, James Enos (1940– )

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Jul

21

1940

I Remember Madiba: Paul Suzman Eulogizes Nelson Mandela

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