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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 23, 1961 President Kennedy named Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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On September 22, 1961 The Interstate Commerce Commission issued a regulation prohibiting segregation on interstate buses and terminal facilities.
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On September 21, 1966 The National Guard’s mobilization helped end the riot in Dayton, Ohio. The 1966 Dayton race riot was the largest in...
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On September 20, 1987 Alfre Woodard won an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in the dramatic series L.A. Law. This was her second Emmy,...
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On September 19, 1964 Rev. Joseph Jackson outlined why he felt that obtaining and using the vote were the only necessary actions to bring...
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On September 18, 1990 Atlanta, Ga., led by Mayor Maynard H. Jackson, is selected as the site of the XXV Olympiad Summer Games.
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On September 17, 1991 Ground was broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet...
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On September 16, 1989 Debbye Turner was crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win the crown since the first Miss...
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On September 15, 1963 That Sunday morning, a white man was seen placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
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On September 14, 1970 One Black person was killed and two whites injured in a shoot-out between activists and police officers in a New...
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