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On October 4, 1988 The Martin L. King, Jr. Federal Building was dedicated in Atlanta, Ga. It is the first federal building in the...
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On October 3, 1949 First Black Radio Station, WERD, began operating in Atlanta, GA.
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On October 2, 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in and became the first Black Supreme Court Justice. Thurgood Marshall had already transformed American law....
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On October 1, 2001 President George W. Bush nominated Mattie R. Sharpless as the next United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic. After...
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On September 30, 1991 Mike Powell broke the world long jump record, jumping 8.95 meters at a meet in Tokyo. The previous mark was...
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On September 29, 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, became the first Black to receive the Nobel Prize in...
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On September 28 The Secretary of the Army cleared the military records of 167 Black soldiers who were dishonorably discharged in 1906 because they...
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On September 27, 1940 Black leaders protested discrimination in the armed forces and war industries at a White House meeting with President Roosevelt.
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On September 25, 1974 Barbara W. Hancock became the first Black woman named a White House fellow.
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On September 24, 1957 Nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil...
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