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Update: When We All Vote | The Oklahoma Eagle

The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire Voting should be easy, but that wasn’t the case for many in the 2020 elections. People faced fear around the safety of voting in person during a pandemic, long lines, inaccessible ballot drop boxes, and mail-in ballots that didn’t show up. The list of unnecessary barriers to voting last year […]

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Born: 12/13/1903 Norfolk, VirginiaDied: 12/13/1986 New York City, New Yorkella baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights

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Ku Klux Klan received charter from Fulton County,

Ku Klux Klan received charter from Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court. Modern Klan spread to Alabama and other Southern state and reached height of its influence in the twenties. By 1924 the organization was strong in Oklahoma, Indiana, California, Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio. At the height of its

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Dec

4

1915

Virginia law declares that all non-Christians imported toits territory are to

Virginia law declares that all non-Christians imported to its territory are to be slaves for life; removes voting rights from recently freed slaves and indentured servants.

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1670

On October 1, 1841, Fannie M. Richards was born. She became an educator and civi

On October 1, 1841, Fannie M. Richards was born. She became an educator and civil rights activist.

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1

1841

Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898)

Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841 in Prince Edward County, Virginia but was raised in Missouri. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, Bruce fled to Kansas, becoming a free man before Lincoln’s Emancipation

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Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator.

Blanche Kelso Bruce was a US Senator from Mississippi; the first black man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate. While serving in the senate, he was an advocate for civil rights for blacks, native Americans, Chinese immigrants and

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May

21

1881

Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director,

Whitney M. Young, Jr. was Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 until his tragic, untimely death in 1971. He worked tireless to bring the races together, and joined the tenets of social work, of which he was an outstanding practitioner, to the social activism that brought the

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Feb

11

1971

The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the

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

The Martin L. King, Jr. Federal Building is dedicated in Atlanta, Ga. It is the first federal building in the nation to bear the name of the slain civil rights leader.

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Oct

4

1988

Hirman R. Revels

Hirman R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.

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Feb

25

1870

Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama

In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, describes her ongoing research on the Birmingham (Alabama) World and its longtime editor, Emory O. Jackson. Mangun is writing a cultural biography of Jackson and the

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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS

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Jul

28

1967

FBI documents, released in response to a freedom of information suit, revealed that the government mounted an intensive campaign against civil rights organizations in the sixties. In a letter dated August 25, 1967, the FBI said the government operation, called COINTELPRO, was designed to

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25

1967

Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia. A civil rights worker who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP, Baker will become executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960s during student integration of lunch counters in the southern states. She also will play

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Dec

13

1903

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

April 20, 1993, Argued

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Mississippi Constitutional Convention began

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Aug

12

1890

Born: 8/30/1901 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 9/8/1981 New York City, New YorkRoy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Business

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Segregation Movements

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24

1881

Born: 4/4/1928 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 5/28/2014 Winston-Salem, North CarolinaMaya Angelou was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television

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Edward W. Brooke

Edward W. Brooke (Republican, Massachusetts) elected to U.S. Senate and became the first Black senator since the Reconstruction era and the first Black senator elected by popular vote. Racial violence was reported in forty-three cities in 1966, with eleven killed, more than four hundred injured and

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8

1966

The National Civil Rights Museum officially opens

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4

1991

U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said

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21

1915

La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

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Civil Rights Timeline

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12

1980

Black Senate Page Appointed on April 8, 1965. 16 year old Lawrene Bradford of New York City was the first Black Page appointed to the US Senate.

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8

1965

President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act

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11

1968

Spingarn Medal: Clarence Mitchell Jr.

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Dec

4

1969

Civil Rights March in Alabama

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Mar

7

1965

Withers, John Lovelle, II (1948- )

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