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On September 13, 1962 Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett defied the federal government in an impassioned speech on statewide radio-television hookup, saying he would...
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On September 12, 1992 Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space when she launched from the Kennedy Space Center and joined...
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On September 11, 2001 Godwin Ajala is remembered as a U.S. national hero who fought to save the lives of countless people as they...
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On September 10, 1929 The Cleveland Call & Post was established when it merged: Cleveland Call, founded in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett A....
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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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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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