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“On August 23, 1908, 52 nurses led by Martha M. Franklin formed the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses to improve the status of...
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On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which ushered in the most sweeping changes in the...
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“On August 21, 2001 Robert Tools, the first man to have a self-contained artificial heart implanted, speaks for the first time on national television....
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On August 20, 1619, the Dutch brought the first Black slaves to the colony of Jamestown.
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On August 19, 1993, Robert C. Maynard, at 56, died of cancer at his home in Oakland. In 1979, Maynard became editor of The...
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On August 18, 1976, Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. assumed command of the U.S. Third Fleet.
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On August 17, 1887, Marcus Garvey, the father of the black nationalist and Pan-African movements, was born in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.
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On August 16, 1963, the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was designed by George Olden, the first Black to design a U.S....
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On August 15, 1987, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke to a gathering of federal judges. Reflecting on his two decades on the...
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On August 14, 1970, CUNY undertook to change its demographics on a far larger scale, through what came to be known as “open admissions.”...
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