The making of a novel: Trump, Francis and a church re-imagined

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The making of a novel: Trump, Francis and a church re-imagined

Four years ago this month, David Bonior found himself at a turning point.

Donald Trump was taking over as our 45th president, a development Bonior recalls leaving him "troubled and verging on distrau...

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Joseph Hayne Rainey was the first Black elected to Congress to represent South Carolina. He was sworn in on this day to fill an unexpired term.

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Dec

12

1870

Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African Amer

Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African American congressman from the state of Ohio. He will serve more than ten terms in Congress.

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Jan

3

1969

National Congress of Racial Equality organized

National Congress of Racial Equality organized.

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Jun

20

1943

(1970) Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, “I Am For the Equal Rights Amendment.”

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm became in 1968 the first African American woman elected to Congress. Four years later in 1972, she launched a bid to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, another first for an African American woman. Throughout her career in Congress

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Aug

10

1970

Cardiss R. Collins

Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.

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Jun

5

1973

Brown, Corrine (1946- )

Corrine Brown, now in her eighth term in office, is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She represents Florida’s Third Congressional District which includes Jacksonville and the surrounding area. Brown was born on November 11, 1946 in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up

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Nov

11

1946

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., preacher, civil rights activist, and national politician, was born to Mattie and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 29, 1908. Young Powell grew up in New York City, New York since his father, a Baptist preacher, became pastor of the historic

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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

Murray, George Washington (1853–1926)

South Carolina Congressman George Washington Murray was born near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina, on September 22, 1853 to slave parents. He attended public schools, the University of South Carolina, and the State Normal Institute at Columbia, where he graduated in 1876. After

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Robert E. Hayden dies

Robert E. Hayden, poet and poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, dies

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Feb

25

1980

Pan-African Congress met in London

Pan-African Congress met in London. Among the leaders of the Congress were H. Sylvester Williams, a West Indian Lawyer with a London practice, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Bishop Alexander Walters.

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Jul

23

1900

Watson, Diane Edith (1933- )

Diane Edith Watson was born November 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and has spent the majority of her life in the Los Angeles area. Her father was a Los Angeles policeman and her mother worked nights at a post office after her parents divorced when Watson was

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Nov

12

1933

Eleanor Holmes (later Eleanor Norton) is born in Washington, DC. A graduate of the Yale University School of Law, Norton will become chairperson of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and a Georgetown University law professor before being elected a non-voting delegate to Congress

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Jun

13

1937

Long, Jefferson Franklin (1836-1907)

Jefferson Franklin Long, a Republican who represented Georgia in the 41st Congress, was the first black member to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives, and was the only black representative from Georgia for just over a century. Long was born a slave in Knoxville, Georgia on March

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1

1871

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Congress chartered Freedmen's Savings and Trust

Congress chartered Freedmens Savings and Trust Bank with business confined to Blacks.

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Mar

3

1865

Four newcomers elected to Congress

Four newcomers elected to Congress: Mervyn Dymally (Calif.), Augustus Savage (ILL.), Harold Washington (Ill.) and George W. Crockett Jr. (Mich.).

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Nov

30

1981

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

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Jan

3

1966

Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa (1912-1966)

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first Prime Minister ofNigeria before and after Nigerian independence from Great Britain in

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Congress cracks down on civil rights for blacks

Congress readmitted North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida on condition that the constitutions of said states shall never be amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens or the United States of the right to vote in said states who are entitled

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Jun

25

1868

Townsend, Willard S. (1895-1957)

African American labor leader Willard S. Townsend was born on December 4, 1895, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Willard and Cora Elizabeth Townsend. In 1938 he organized railway workers of several Chicago, Illinois stations to form the International Brotherhood of Redcaps and remained the union’s president

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Feb

3

1957

Porter Wesley, Dorothy (1905-1995)

Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph Burnett, a physician, and her mother, Bertha Ball Burnett, a tennis champion. After receiving her A.B., from Howard University in 1928, she became the first

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Dec

29

1929

Andrew Young elected to Congress

On this date in 1972, Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta, become the first African Americans from the south elected to Congress since Reconstruction.

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Nov

17

1972

Hilliard, Earl (1942- )

In 1975 Hilliard began his political career when he won a seat in the Alabama state legislature representing a Birmingham district. Elected to the state senate in 1980, Hilliard fought for legislation that would benefit the urban poor. During his time in the state senate, he became chairman of the

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(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”

In 1972 Barbara Charline Jordan became the first black member of Congress elected from Texas. Two years later this freshman Representative became a national figure because of her prominent role as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard

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Belizean Kriols

By the 1500s, black slaves had been distributed through much of the Caribbean. Slavery, however, began much later in Central America. By 1724 the British were transporting slaves from Jamaica to Belize to cut logwood, particularly Mahogany. These slaves became known as

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Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope

In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was

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17

1954

Fango, Gobo (1855-1886)

Gobo Fango was born in the Eastern Cape Colony in what is now South Africa around 1855, just before the beginning of the eighth of the nine Xhosa Wars (Cape Frontier Wars) against British and Boer settlers. Fango was a member of the Gcaleka tribe, a sub-group of the Xhosa peoples. These frontier

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Langston, John Mercer (1829-1897)

John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia in 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles, Langston took his surname from his mother, Lucy

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15

1897

Josiah T. Walls

Born on this day in Winchester, VA, Josiah T. Walls was elected to the U.S. Congress for the state of Florida.

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1842

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