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Dedicated volunteers of The Greening of Detroit prepare to plant a tree in the Brightmoor neighborhood last November. Photo courtesy of The Greening of Detroit’s Facebook page Imagine something as majestic - yet simple - as a tree being planted in the city of Detroit. Over time, its roots stretch deep into the packed … Continued

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United States Population: 23,191,876. Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7 per cent).

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31

1850

Black Paul Revere

1781 - Nicholas, a free black patriot, rides to Dover, Delaware to alert United States troops that The British are coming!

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1781

William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta. In series of battles around Chaffins Farm in suburb of Richmond, Black troops captured entrenchments at New Market Heights, made gallant but unsuccessful assault on Fort Gilmer and helped repulse Confederate counterattack on Fort Harrison. Thirty-ninth

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2

1864

First Lt. Nancy C. Leftenant became the first Black accepted in the regular army nursing corps.

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12

1948

Demonstrators Arrested

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19

1960

The hurricane that hit Palm Beach County Florida, on September 16, 1928, has been identified as the third largest death total, caused by a natural disastor, in the United States.

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16

1928

Elijah Muhammad founds the Nation of Islam in Detroit, 1930

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22

1930

Frances Watkins Harper, writer born

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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24

1825

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30

1800

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

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19

1883

COINTELPRO Memorandum

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3

1968

Executive Order 9808

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5

1946

Lawrence Douglas Wilder assumes title as governor

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14

1990

Bureau of Census reports

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13

1972

Virginia Students Protest Segregated Schools

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23

1951

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

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29

1968

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassinated

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22

1963

Blacks held mass meeting in Norfolk (Va.) and

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11

1965

Rebecca J. Cole--2nd Black Female Physician

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14

1922

Wash., D.C. Slave Emancipation and Reparations

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16

1862

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

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21

1915

Abolitionist, inventor, entrepreneur, James Forten was born in Philadelphia, PA,

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1766

Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity founded

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5

1911

Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.

Born: 7/1/1877 Washington, D.C., United StatesDied: 11/26/1970 Chicago, IllinoisBrigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. was the first African-American general officer in the United States Army. He was the father of Air Force General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.Business / Schooling: Awards

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Alabama Educational Television Commission

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1975

Opera singer Marian Anderson born

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1902

National Black Economic Development Conference

National Black Economic Development Conference adopted manifesto in Detroit meeting calling for $500 Million in reparations from white churches.

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26

1969

Ossian Sweet, prominent Detroit doctor, arrested on murder charges after shots were fired into a mob in front of the Sweet home in a previously all-white area. Sweet was defended by Clarence Darrow, who won an acquittal in the second trial.

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8

1925

Oliver W. Hill elected to Richmond, Va., City Council.

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1948

Ernest Everett Just

Born: 8/14/1883 Charleston, South CarolinaDied: 10/27/1941 Washington, D.C., United StatesErnest Everett Just was a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer. Justs primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of

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