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On August 3. 1928, the Atlanta Daily World was founded by William A. Scott III. The Atlanta Daily World was the first Black daily...
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On August 2, 1982 Jackie Robinson is honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp, the fifth in its Black Heritage USA...
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On August 1, 1993, Barbara Ross-Lee, a practicing family physician, Naval officer, and medical educator, assumed the position of dean of Ohio University College...
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On July 31, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the newly appointed Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), described Black power to a mostly African...
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On June 15, 1971, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., former executive director of the United Negro College Fund, was appointed executive director of the National...
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On June 14, 1989, Congressman William Gray is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives, the highest-ranking leadership position ever held by an...
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On June 13, 1990 Bernadette Locke became the first female on-court coach when she was named assistant coach of the University of Kentucky men’s...
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On June 11, 1964 Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sabotage the white South African government.
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On June 10, 1915 Albert Robinson died of an unknown illness. Albert Robinson and his wife, Margaret Tull Robinson, originally ran Hotel Robinson. The...
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On June 9, 1989, Congressman John Conyers, D-Michigan, announced a call for a reparations study.
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On June 8, 1953 Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., performed the marriage ceremony of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Miss Coretta Scott at...
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On June 6, 1987, Mae C. Jemison, M.D., was chosen by NASA to begin training as a space shuttle astronaut.
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On June 5, 1973, Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago was elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.
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On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted by a white jury in San Jose, Calif., of charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shoot-out.
