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David Robinson
David Robinson is a retired professional basketball player who is colloquially known as ‘The Admiral’ thanks to his prior service to the United States
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6
1965
Edwin B. Henderson, pioneering physical education instructorand coach organize
Edwin B. Henderson, pioneering physical education instructor and coach organizes the Negro Athletic Conference, Interscholastic Athletic Conference, and the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
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Jan
0
1883
Lavizzo, Blanche Sellers (1925-1984)
Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington.  She arrived in Seattle in 1956, with her husband Dr. Philip Lavizzo, a general surgeon.   They had left medical practices in New Orleans, Louisiana to pursue a better future in the Pacific
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Jul
11
1925
Foster III, Stanbery 'Stanley'
Stanbery Stanley Foster III, has worked for the State Of Washington for over 17 years in various capacities.  He has a lifelong interest in history, but his passion is songwriting, and he has recently branched out into performing music.  He lives in the Olympia, Washington area.
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Conference in the Wormley Hotel
At a conference in the Wormley Hotel in Washington, representatives of Rutherford B. Hayes and representatives of the South negotiated agreement which paved the way for the election of Hayes as president and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
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Feb
26
1877
DuSable Abandons Chicago
On this date in 1800, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, frontier trader, fur trapper, farmer, businessman and father of Chicago sold all his property for $1,200 and left the area. He died 18 years later, almost penniless, and was buried in St. Charles, Missouri.
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May
7
1800
Allen, Sanford (1939- )
Violinist Sanford Allen was born in New York in 1939.  His musical career began at the age of five with piano study. In 1946 he entered the preparatory program at Julliard to study violin.  Allen continued his violin studies at the Mannes College (The New School for Music, in New York) under the
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Togo
Togo, twice the size of Maryland, is on the south coast of West Africa bordering on Ghana to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Benin to the east. The Gulf of Guinea coastline, only 32 mi long (51 km), is low and sandy. The only port is at Lomé. The Togo hills traverse the central
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Alabama A&M University [Normal] (1875-- )
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical (Alabama A & M) University is a historically black university located in the city of Normal, Alabama.  The school began in 1875 when Alabama officials used the Morrill Act of 1862 allowing state governments to establish colleges for African American
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16
2009
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable established the first permanent settlement at 'Sk
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable established the first
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13
1773
Brown, Odessa (1920-1969)
Odessa Brown, for whom the Children’s Clinic in Seattle is named, was born April 30, 1920, in Des Arc, Arkansas.  She moved to Seattle in 1963 after receiving training as a licensed beautician at the C. J. Walker Beauty School in Chicago.  A mother of four, she supported her family by working as
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1969
Black Power Conference
More than one thousand persons attended the first Black Power Conference in Newark, New Jersey.
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20
1967
Buddy Guy is born.
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30
1936
(1895) Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women,”
In 1894 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded the Womens New Era Club, a charitable organization of sixty prominent black women in Boston.  Soon afterwards she began editing its monthly publication, the Womens Era.  Encouraged by the success of the New Era Club and heartened by the rapid growth of
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29
1895
Sierra leone
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Seattle Civic Unity Committee
The Seattle Civic Unity Committee was formed by Seattle Mayor William F. Devin in 1944 in response to rising racial tension in the city.  During World War II Seattle, like other west coast cities, received an influx of African Americans raising its black population from 3,789 in 1940 to over 10,000
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Coleman, John A.(1852- ? )
John A. Coleman was born a slave in 1852 in Talladega County, Alabama. After he received his freedom at the end of the Civil War, Coleman attended the newly established Talladega College for three years. He worked on a Mississippi River steamboat and then migrated to New York
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Afro-Asian Writers' Conferences (1958-1979)
The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences were a series of gatherings of literary figures from Asia and Africa that took place over two decades to denounce imperialism and to establish cultural contacts among their countries. The first conference (and by far the best known) was held in October 1958 in
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Poor People's Campaign
Martin Luther King, Jr. announced plans for Poor Peoples Campaign in Washington. He said he would lead a massive civil disobedience campaign in the capital to pressure the government to provide jobs and income for all Americans. He told a press conference that an army of poor white, poor Blacks and
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1968
Ware, Flo (1912-1981)
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P.B.S. Pinchback elected president
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Dec
6
1871
Algiers, Algeria (circa 9th century AD--)
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Jackson Street Community Council (1946-1967)
Formed in 1946, the Jackson Street Community Council (JSCC) became the first institutional link between the often divided communities of color in Seattle, Washington. Seattle was strictly segregated at this time, and the JSCC represented part of the Central District (where most of Seattle’s African
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Morocco
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Sudan
In October 2007, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) quit the national unity government, leaving the peace agreement signed in 2005 on the brink of collapse. The SPLA claimed that the governing party, the National Congress Party, had ignored its concerns over boundary between the north and
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American troops drove Spanish forces from Cuba
American troops, including Tenth Cavalry, drove Spanish forces from entrenched positions at La Guasimas, Cuba.
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1898
First International Conference
First international conference of Black writes and artists met at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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Bertha Gilkey is president of the Cochran Tenant Management Corporation in St. Louis, Mo. She was instrumental in obtaining over $30 million in funds for renovation and new construction in the St. Louis area.
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1999
Myrick, Bismarck (1940- )
Bismarck Myrick is a retired United States Ambassador to Lesotho from 1995 to 1998 and the Republic of Liberia from 1999 to 2002. Originally from Portsmouth, Virginia, Myrick has held multiple positions with the U.S. government over a number of
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