Which HBCUs Are Located In North Carolina?

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Which HBCUs Are Located In North Carolina?

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a vital role in shaping American culture. They provide opportunities and education to many highly successful young Black students and have propelled many students to accomplish great feats.

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Jonathan Jasper Wright

Jonathan Jasper Wright was the first Black state supreme court justice. He resigned on this day from the state supreme court in South Carolina after the overthrow of the Reconstruction government, and died in obscurity of tuberculosis.

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Dec

1

1877

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmens Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. The measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37. A Black delegation, led by Frederick Douglas

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Feb

5

1866

Bacon's Rebellion

African Americans fought in the first armed rebellion against British authority in the colonies, Bacons Rebellion, in 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the rising generation of colonial planters who resented British rule and, particularly, the British protection of Indian lands that lay just

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Mar

26

2002

Fifty-second Congress convened

Fifty-second Congress convened. One Black congressman: Henry P. Cheatham, North Carolina.

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Dec

2

1891

Mary Lou Williams

Death of musician Mary Lou Williams (71), in Durham, North Carolina.

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May

28

1981

Secession From the Union

Southern states believed the election of Lincoln as president meant the end to slavery. Immediately after the election in Novembet 1860, several states began holding conventions and debate secession from the Union. Before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded fron the

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Mar

4

1861

Massachusetts slaves petitioned the legislature

Massachusetts slaves petitioned the legislature for freedom. There is a record of eight freedom petitions during the Revolutionary War period.

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Jan

6

1773

Actress, Writer

Born on this day in Winston-Salem, N.C., USA. Pamala Suzette Grier is one of the most important African American actresses of the 1970s

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May

26

1949

Floyd B. McKissick, North Carolina attorney, named national director of Congress of Racial Equality.

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Jan

3

1966

Africans accompany Pedro Mendez, Spanish settler in founding St. Augustine, FL, the oldest permanent US city founded by Europeans.

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Jan

0

1565

Institution of Higher Learning Founded

North Carolina College founded.

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Dec

19

1910

Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-99) Convened

Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-99) convened. One Black congressman: George H. White, North Carolina.

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Mar

15

1911

Did You Know That In...

1733 - Spanish decree promises escaped English slaves freedom in Florida.

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Jan

0

1733

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator/activist

Death of Mary McLeod Bethune (79), educator and civil rights leader, Daytona

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May

18

1955

Thaddeus Stevens a Powerful U.S. Congressman

Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urged confiscation of estates of Confederate leaders and the distribution of land to adult freedmen in forty-acre lots.

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Sep

6

1865

Freedman's Bureau

U.S. Army commander in South Carolina ordered Freedmens Bureau to stop seizing abandoned land .

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Sep

3

1865

African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites

African Americans Replaces Reluctant Whites: By 1777, losses on the field of battle and rising White desertions had reduced the Continental Armys ranks of men. Northern colonies began to accept African Americans, free and slave, because these colonies could not fill their quotas with White man. In

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Oct

5

2002

Fifty-first Congress convened

Fifty-first Congress convened. Three Black congressmen: Henry P. Cheatham, North Carolina; Thomas E. Miller, South Carolina; John M. Langston, Virginia.

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Mar

4

1889

Gov. Theophilus Eaton of the New Haven, CT, colony frees his slaves, John Wham and his wife; this is the earliest account of free blacks in New England, as recorded in the Public Records of the State of Connecticut.

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Jan

0

1646

Absalom Jones Born into Slavery

Absalom Jones rose from slavery to become the first black Episcopal priest and principal founder of St. Thomas, the first black Episcopal church.

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Nov

6

1746

Four national chain stores announced

Four national chain stores announced on October 17 that counters in about 150 stores in 112 cities in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and Oklahoma had been integrated.

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Mar

1

1960

Frederick Douglass Escapes

Frederick Douglass, disguised as a sailor escapes from slavery

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Sep

3

1838

Haitian Revolution began with revolt of slaves in

Haitian Revolution began with revolt of slaves in northern province.

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Aug

22

1791

Absalom Jones Birth

Absalom Jones, major leader of Black Pioneer period, born in slavery in Sussex, Delaware.

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Nov

6

1746

Saint Augustine

St. Augustine, (Aurelius Augustinus, A.B. 354-430 bishop of Hippo,(now Souk-Ahras in modern Algeria),wrote the City of God, setting forth the Christian view of the world and humanity, in A.D. 410.

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Jan

0

410

Council of general officers decided to bar slaves

Council of general officers decided to bar slaves and free Blacks from Continental Army.

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Oct

8

1775

Slave conspiracies and fires cause Hysteria

Succession of suspicious fires and reports of slave conspiracies created hysteria in New York in March and April. Thirty-one slaves and five whites were executed.

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Mar

31

1741

Forty-ninth Congress (1885-87) convened

Forty-ninth Congress (1885-87) convened. Two Black congressmen: James E. OHara, North Carolina; Robert Smalls, South Carolina.

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Dec

7

1885

The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urgesits members to educat

The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urges its members to educate their slaves.

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Jan

0

1787

U.S. Constitution Approved

U.S. Constitution approved at Philadelphia convention with three clauses protecting slavery.

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1787

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