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Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit.
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Feb
28
1942
America's first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black
Americas first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black students were excluded from attending.
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Feb
13
1635
LeMelle, Wilbert J., Sr. (1931-2003)
Wilbert J. LeMelle, Sr., was a scholar, development specialist, and ambassador to Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles between 1977 and 1980.  In both his academic and diplomatic work, LeMelle urged the United States to become more engaged in Africa, focusing on economic development and human
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Fugitive Slave returned to the South
Fugitive slave Anthony Burns was returned to the South from Boston. It cost the federal government $100,000 to return Burns, who was later sold to a group of Bostonians who freed him.
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Jun
2
1854
Quincy Jones was born
Quincy Jones, Music Impresario, Born March 14, 1933 in Chicago’s South
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Mar
14
1933
Bermuda
Bermuda is an archipelago of about 360 small islands, 580 mi (934 km) east of North Carolina. The largest is (Great) Bermuda, or Main Island. Explored by Juan de Bermúdez, a Spaniard, the islands were settled in 1612 by an offshoot of the Virginia Company. Bermuda became a Crown colony in
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Charles Cooper joins the NBA and becomes one of the first Blacks to play in an N
Charles Cooper joins the NBA and becomes one of the first Blacks to play in an NBA game, 1950
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Oct
22
1950
United Negro College Fund (1944– )
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was founded on April 25, 1944 by Frederick Patterson, President of the Tuskegee Institute, and Mary McLeod Bethune, an advisor to the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, to provide a steady, consistent stream of funding to 27 financially struggling small
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Apr
25
1944
Allan Rohan Crite, painter, born
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Mar
20
1910
Border Love on the Rio Grande: African American Men and Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (1850-1940)
The area of South Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley became in the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I one of the few regions south of the Mason-Dixon Line where racial miscegenation laws were frequently challenged.  As a consequence a small but significant number of prominent
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North Carolina Central University (1910- )
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is a public, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Durham, North Carolina. The small urban campus is located 23 miles from Raleigh, North
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born 20 December 20, 1957, Detroit, Michigan, USA.Soul singer
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Dec
20
1957
The African Baptist Church
The African Baptist Church is organized in Boston, Mass.
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Aug
8
1805
Burkina Faso
Slightly larger than Colorado, Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Its neighbors are Côte dIvoire, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, and Ghana. The country consists of extensive plains, low hills, high savannas, and a desert area in the
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Bullard, Eugene James ["Jacques"] (1895-1961)
Eugene James (Jacques) Bullard, the first African American combat aviator, was known as the “black swallow of death” for his courage during missions. He led a colorful life, much of it in
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Oct
9
1895
Muhammad Ali convicted in Houston, Texas, federal
Muhammad Ali convicted in Houston, Texas, in federal courts for violating Selective Service Act by refusing induction into the armed services. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. Ali, an opponent of the Vietnam War, had refused to report for service on grounds that he was
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Jun
20
1967
A school for black students is established in the homeof Primus Hall, a free b
A school for black students is established in the home of Primus Hall, a free black, Boston, MA.
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Jan
0
1798
African Lodge No
African Lodge No. 459 organized in Boston with Prince Hall as Master.
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May
6
1787
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
March 26, 2003, Argued
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Major race riot, Miami, Florida
Major race riot, Miami, Florida. Sixteen persons were killed and more than three hundred were injured.
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1980
Smalls, Robert (1839-1915)
Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839 and worked as a house slave until the age of 12. At that point his owner, John K. McKee, sent him to Charleston to work as a waiter, ship rigger, and sailor, with all earnings going to McKee. This arrangement continued until
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May
13
1862
Actress Phylicia Rashad born
Actress Phylicia Rashad was born in Houston, Texas.
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Jun
17
1948
Young, Coleman A. (1918-1997)
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Coleman Young arrived in Detroit, Michigan with his family when he was five.  The Colemans settled in the working class neighborhood of Black Bottom (East Detroit), where his father operated a dry cleaning business and his mother was a schoolteacher.  Early in his life
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The first NBA Black Assistant Coach and first Black chief scout, Earl Lloyd, bec
The first NBA Black Assistant Coach and first Black chief scout, Earl Lloyd, becomes the first Black person to play in an NBA game (beating out Charles Cooper and Nat Clifton by a day), 1950
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Oct
21
1950
Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were
Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were initiated into British Military Lodge No. 441 of the Masons at Fort Independence, Massachusetts. Hall was a leather-dresser and caterer. On July 3, 1775, African Lodge No.1 was organized in Boston by a group of Black Masons.
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Jul
3
1775
Abbott, Anderson Ruffin (1837-1913)
Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Canada’s first black doctor, was born April 7, 1837 in Toronto, Ontario.  He was the son of free black property owners William Ruffin Abbott and his wife Ellen (Toyer) Abbott who left Alabama after their store had been destroyed.  They settled briefly in New York until
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Dec
29
1913
Race riot in Cincinnati
Race riot, Cincinnati. More than one thousand Blacks left the city for Canada.
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Aug
10
1827
Charles Edward Anderson--Meteorologist
Born: August 13, 1919
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Aug
13
1919
Elijah Muhammad
Name at birth: Elija Pool or Elijah Poole
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Mary Ann Shadd, publisher of Canada's first antislavery newspaper, The Provincia
Mary Ann Shadd, publisher of Canadas first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman and the first woman in North American to publish and edit a newspaper, born
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Oct
9
1823
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