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1997
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1958
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26
1876
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8
1977
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3
1970
Henry B.Delany
Henry B. Delany elected suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of North Carolina.
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21
1918
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Cheryl Mills, White House Deputy Counsel, becomes the first Black to argue a case before a U.S. Senate impeachment hearing in the case of Pres. William Clinton.
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20
1999
First Black Mayor of New Orleans
Ernest Nathan Morial was elected the first black mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Nov
12
1977
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Medgar Wiley Evers awarded Spingarn Medal posthumously for his civil rights leadership.
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12
1963
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20
1986
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0
2001
Mayor of Augusta Georgia
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28
1981
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19
1925
1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Ken
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10
1999
A commemorative stamp of Martin Luther King, Jr. is issued by the U.S. Postal Se
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13
1979
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13
1863
Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995)
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1994
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1787
Irving C. Mollison
Irving C. Mollison, a Chicago Republican, sworn in as U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City.
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3
1945
Patricia R.Harris
Patricia R. Harris named secretary of housing and urban development by President-elect Carter.
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21
1976
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10
1875
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1912
Abolitionist Society Organized
First abolitionist society in United States organized in Philadelphia.
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14
1775
Football star Earl Campbell born
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29
1955
Selma March begins
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads thousands of people on a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama to call for voting rights for African Americans.
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21
1965
Another Black Church Destroyed
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25
1962
James Theodore Holly
James Theodore Holly, a Black American who emigrated to Haiti in 1861, elected bishop of Haiti. He was consecrated in a ceremony at New Yorks Grace Church on November 8.
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Nov
3
1874
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by a deranged Black woman while he was autographing books in a Harlem department store. Woman was placed under mental observation.
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20
1958
U.S. Rep. Floyd Flake born
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1945
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