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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 13, 1906, the Brownsville Incident occurred in Brownsville, a town in south Texas, where a race-related fracas occurred that resulted in the...
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On August 12, 1990, August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is the second Pulitzer Prize for Wilson,...
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On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African-American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. After he failed a field sobriety test, officers...
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On August 10, 1944, a Race riot in Athens, Alabama started when a fistfight between two white war veterans and a Negro touched off...
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On August 9, 1961, James B. Parsons became the first Black appointed to the Federal District Court in the continental United States.
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On August 8, 1968, a riot in Miami, Florida. National Guard mobilized to put down the rioting which erupted while Republicans were holding a...
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August 7, 1954, Charles H. Mahoney was confirmed by the Senate and became the first Black to serve as a full delegate to the...
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On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Bill, which authorized the suspension of literacy tests and the sending of federal...
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On August 5, 1984, Evelyn Ashford won a gold medal in the 100-meter race, and Edwin Moses won a gold medal in the 400-meter...
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On August 4, 1865, the Loyal Creek Council formally declared that African Creeks would be considered full citizens of the Creek Nation. August 4th...
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