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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 16, 1966 Stokely Carmichael was named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Welfare Rights Organization was organized.
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On May 15, 1946, Camilla Williams, the African American woman to sign a contract with a major American opera company, appeared in the title...
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On May 14, 1994, Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State in 2001 under President George W. Bush, had his most important...
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On May 13, 1969, in Fayette, Mississippi, James Charles Evers was elected the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town. In June...
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On May 12, 1967, H “Rap” Brown replaced Stokely Carmichael as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. As SNCC’s new chair, Brown was...
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On May 9, 1994, Kimberly Clarice Aiken Cockerham was recognized by People Magazine as one of the “Fifty Most Beautiful People in the World.”...
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On May 8, 2009 Ronald Cordell Sims became the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sims, now second-in-command of...
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On May 7, 1976, William H. Hastie was inaugurated as the first Black governor of the Virgin Islands. He was nominated judge of the...
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