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“What Did You Expect?” – Dallas Post Tribune

My Day By Dr. J. Ester Davis Were you really surprised about the mob attacks on Capitol Hill last Tuesday? What do you think would have been the final death toll had the “mob” been black? Were you actually “shocked” at the mannerisms of these domestic terrorists? How much of the action, destruction, and abuse […]

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On July 1, 1987, for the first time in history, there were three African American women serving as Presidents of Four Year Colleges and Universities in America.They were - Dr. Niara Sudarkasa- President of Lincoln University in Pennslyvania; Dr. Johnetta Cole, President of Spelman College in

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1987

Lodge Bill, which called for federal supervision of U. elections, abandoned in the Senate after a Southern filibuster.

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1891

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1968

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Three organizations the Committee for Improving the Industrial Conditions of Negroes in New York, the Committee on Urban Conditions and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women merged, under the leadership of Dr. George E. Hayne and Eugene Kinckle Jones, to form the National Urban

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23

1911

Third national Black convention met

Third national Black convention met in Philadelphia with twenty-nine delegates from eight states. Henry Sipkins of New York was elected president.

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1832

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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21

1881

Black Woman named "American Mother of the Year."

Emma Clarissa Clement, a black woman and mother of Atlanta University President Rufus E. Clement, was named American Mother of the Year by the Golden Rule Foundation. She was the first Afro-American woman to receive the honor.

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1946

Charles H. Mahoney

Charles H. Mahoney was confirmed by the Senate and became the first Black to serve as a full delegate to the United Nations.

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1954

Death of Madame C.J

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1919

Poor People's Campaign

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1968

The Baptist Foreign Mission

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1880

William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor

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1975

Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and

Glenn H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho and Vice-presidential candidate of Progressive party, arrested in Birmingham for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for Negroes.

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Texas As a Slave State

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1845

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1862

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1983

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1780

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1981

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

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1966

Joe Frazier knocks out Jimmy Ellis

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1970

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1956

Virginia Students Protest Segregated Schools

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1951

Presidential Assistant E. Frederic Morrow born

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Spottiswood W. Robinson

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1999

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