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DeKalb CEO Thurmond Extends Water Disconnection Moratorium to Sept. 1 DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has extended the five-year-old water service disconnection moratorium for residential water accounts to Sept. 1, 2021. The moratorium was set to expire on July 1. “While the county has addressed
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Bond, Julian
Bond, Julian (Horace Julian Bond), 1940–2015, U.S. civil-rights leader, b. Nashville, Tenn. As a student at Morehouse College, he participated in sit-ins at segregated Atlanta restaurants. He was a founder (1960) of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, serving (1961–65) as its
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On October 2, 1935, Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., was born. He became an astronaut an
On October 2, 1935, Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., was born. He became an astronaut and pilot. He was the first African American selected for space travel. Lawrence was killed in a conspiracy-filled training accident in December of 1967. In 1989, a memorial foundation was erected in honor of those
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2
1935
First Black College Founded in Tennesee
The first Black college founded in Tennesee was Fisk University. Although work on the school was started in October 1865, it did not become incorporated under Tennesee law until this day.
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22
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Lower house of Georgia legislature
Lower house of Georgia legislature, ruling that Blacks were ineligible to hold office, expelled twenty-eight representatives. Ten days later the senate expelled three Blacks. Congress refused to admit the state until the legislature seated the Black representatives.
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3
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Adams, Alma Shealey (1946-)
Congresswoman Alma Shealey Adams currently represents North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.  She is the 100th woman elected to that legislative body and the second African American woman, after Eva Clayton, to represent North Carolina in the
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On October 2, 1937,Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He
On October 2, 1937,Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He became the noted controversial lawyer, who defended pro football star and actor, O.J. Simpson, in the infamous trial, for which Simpson was accused of killing wife and her friend. A member of the Dream Team.
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2
1937
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Pressure From Congress: After the Union Army suffered a series of military defeats in 1861 and 1862, pressure mounted on Lincoln to use African Americans as soldiers. Once again African American soldiers came to the rescue of America. As Charles Summer put it: I do not say carry the war into
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6
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BPS terminates international postal money order service with US - Barbados Today
The public is advised that effective Friday, October 1, the reciprocal International Postal Money Order service between the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the Barbados Postal Service (BPS) will end. All International Postal Money Orders issued up to Thursday, September 30, by the USPS
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Physician Bernard A. Harris, Jr is born
Physician Bernard A. Harris, Jr was born in
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Jun
26
1956
Hall, Katie Beatrice (1938-2012)
Democratic representative Katie Hall was elected to the United States Congress in 1983. Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi in 1938, she attended Mississippi Valley State University and Indiana University before teaching in the public schools of Gary Indiana. Hall was elected to the
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20
2012
P.B.S. Pinchback
P.B.S. Pinchback relinquished the office of governor, saying at the inauguration of the new Louisiana governor: I now have the honor to formally surrender the office of governor, with the hope that you will administer the government in the interests of all the people [and that] your administration
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Jan
13
1873
Savings Bank Opening
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3
1889
Lawrence Douglas Wilder assumes title as governor
In Richmond, Virginia former Lt. Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder took office as the first popularly elected African American governor of an American state.
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14
1990
Leontyne Price awarded in Italy
Leontyne Price, opera singer, is awarded The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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12
1975
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Aug
14
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Blacks held mass meeting in Norfolk (Va.) and
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11
1965
Landlords didn’t rush to court when eviction curbs ended | New Pittsburgh Courier
President Judge Kim Berkeley Clark (File Photo, J. L. Martello) by Rich Lord, PublicSource The first full month of unfettered evictions did not result in a surge in filings by local landlords hoping to oust tenants. Landlords in Allegheny County filed cases against 507 tenants in
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Strom forced suspension of attack on Richmond, Va
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Aug
30
1800
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Born: 0/29/938 Monrovia, LiberiaAfrica’s first female head of state won the 20 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting Liberian reconciliation and in atoning for Liberia’s history of civil war. She was re-elected for a second term the same year, reneging on an earlier promise to run for only
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Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first
Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first Black bank, opened in Washington, D.C. The Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers (Richmond, Va.) was chartered on March 2, 1888.
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Mar
2
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John Boyega
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On October 2, 1936, Henry Robinson was born in Port Royal, South Carolina. Robin
On October 2, 1936, Henry Robinson was born in Port Royal, South Carolina. Robinson has served as Mayor of Port Royal, South Carolina.
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1936
Ray, Emma (1859-1930)
For nearly thirty years, Emma Ray, who was born into slavery and raised in poverty in Missouri, ministered to the poor and homeless in Seattle slums along with her husband, L.P. They came to Seattle following the 1889 fire in order for L.P. to find work as a stonemason. Shortly after, they were
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July 8: Ethiopia and Eritrea declared an end to their 20 year conflict, 2018 - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Condoleezza Rice
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1946
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