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It is hard to mistake Pamela Coke-Hamilton for anything other than the high-powered, heavyweight international trade expert, diplomat, attorney-at-law and trailblazer she is, yet too often she is wrongly seen as the secretarial accompaniment to...

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Norma Merrick Sklarek

Norma Merick Sklarek was the first black woman to be honored by fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (AIA).Some of her credits are City Hall, San Bernardino Calif., and the US Embassy in Tokyo.

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1999

Samuel L. Jackson

Actor Samuel Jackson was born on this day in Washington, DC. Jackson will begin his acting career as a student at Morehouse College. He will star in over 40 movies including box office hits The Long Kiss Goodnight, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and A Time to Kill.

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21

1941

Jack Johnson becomes world heavyweight champion, defeating Tommy Burns

Jack Johnson becomes world heavyweight champion, defeating Tommy Burns

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Dec

26

1908

First Black Secretary General of UN

Kofi Annan of Ghana becomes first black secretary of United Nations.

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1

1997

WHMM-TV in Washington, DC becomes the first African American broadcasting tele

WHMM-TV in Washington, DC becomes the first African American broadcasting television station

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Nov

17

1980

Death of Carter G. Woodson

Death of Carter G. Woodson (74), father of Black history, Washington, D.C.

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Apr

3

1950

Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born

Katherine Dunham

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Jun

22

1912

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/activist

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune (79), educator and civil rights leader, Daytona

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May

18

1955

Jackson Johnson defeated Tommy Burns

Jackson Johnson defeated Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia, for the heavyweight Championship.

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Dec

26

1908

Bert Williams--a Leading Comedian

At the turn of the century Bert Williams was one of Americas top comedians. Comedian Eddie Cantor called him a comic genius, W.C. Fields, a comic genius himself, once described Williams as the funniest man I ever

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4

1922

Black History Week

Carter G. Woodson creates Negro History Week. In 1976 it became Black History Month.

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Feb

7

1926

Nelson Mandela is released

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11

1990

Many people assume thatFebruary is the shortest monthof the whole year to be

Many people assume that February is the shortest month of the whole year to be entitled of Black History Month. But, did you know that is celebrates the birthday of Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?

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1998

Evelyn Boyd Granville is born

Evelyn Boyd Granville, Born May 1, 1924 in Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar High School, a segregated high school at the time. Her interest in mathematics was encouraged by two mathematics teachers. Granville worked with Einar Hille, a distinguished mathematician in the field of functional

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May

1

1924

James Gladden 1st certified orthopedic surgeon

January 22, 1949 - James Robert Gladden becomes first African American certified in orthopedic surgery.

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22

1949

Floyd B. McKissick, North Carolina attorney, named national director of Congress of Racial Equality.

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Jan

3

1966

African American Captures British General

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3

2002

Muhammad Ali regains world heavyweight boxing title.

Muhammad Ali regains world heavyweight boxing title.

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29

1974

At a New York City conference, representatives of

At a New York City conference, representatives of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service planned a coordinated legal campaign against segregation and discrimination. Charles H. Houston, Vice-dean of the Howard University Law School, was named director of the NAACP legal campaign.

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Oct

26

1934

Heavyweight Boxer John Tate born

Birthday of heavyweight boxer John Tate, who was born in Marion City, Arkansas. Tate won the vacant World Boxing Association title in 1979 from South African Gerrie Coetzee.

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Jan

29

1955

More than one hundred delegates from six states

More than one hundred delegates from six states held a Black convention in Philadelphia. John Mercer Langston, one of the first Blacks to win public office, elected clerk of Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1856 he was elected clerk of the township of Russia, near Oberlin. In 1857 he was

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Oct

16

1855

Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first

Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first Black bank, opened in Washington, D.C. The Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers (Richmond, Va.) was chartered on March 2, 1888.

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Mar

2

1888

1st Black chariman of P.C.G.E.P.

Archibald J. Carey, Chicago minister and attorney, appointed first Black chairman of Presidents Committee on Government Employment Policy.

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Aug

3

1957

School Integration Begins

School integration began in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., public schools.

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Sep

27

1954

Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

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16

1862

Jack Johnson, boxer born

Born: Mar. 31, 1878

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31

1878

The Martin L. King, Jr, federal Building is dedicated in Atlanta, Ga. It is the

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Nov

4

1988

First Black Grandmaster

Maurice Ashley, an immigrant from Jamaica, was 14 and living in Brooklyn, when he feel in love with the game of chess after reading a book about Paul Morphy, a 19th-century Louisianian who was Americas first great chess

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1999

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, Principal of the Institute for Colored Youth, Philadelphia, named minister to Haiti and became the first major Black diplomat and the first American Black to receive a major appointment from the United Stated Government.

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6

1869

Carter G. Woodson's Birth

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