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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 May 30, 1965, Vivian Malone Jones became the first Black student to graduate from the formerly segregated University of Alabama. She was one...
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On May 28, 2014 Maya Angelou, original name Marguerite Annie Johnson (born April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
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On May 26, 1961, the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta.
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On May 24, 1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall was installed as president of the New York County Medical Society and became the first Black...
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On May 23, 2011, Raymond Merriwether died in Seattle. He was 87. He was a prominent African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper...
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On May 22, 1959, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father was the first...
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On May 21, 1970, the National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. Black and white students were demanding an end to...
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On May 20, 1971, a Pentagon report said Blacks constituted 11 per cent of U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia. The report said 12.5 per...
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On May 19, 1991, Willy T. Ribbs became the first African American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S....
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