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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 2, 1975 James A Healy, the first Black Roman Catholic bishop, was consecrated in a cathedral in Portland, Maine.
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On June 1, 1909, Ida B. Wells gave a speech at the National Negro Conference, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement...
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On May 31, 1921, this was the worst riot in American history. 15,000 Blacks were left homeless, between 300 and 3000 were killed, wounded,...
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On May 30, 1965, Vivian Malone Jones became the first Black student to graduate from the formerly segregated University of Alabama. She was one...
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On May 28, 2014 Maya Angelou, original name Marguerite Annie Johnson (born April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
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On May 26, 1961, the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta.
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On May 24, 1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall was installed as president of the New York County Medical Society and became the first Black...
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On May 23, 2011, Raymond Merriwether died in Seattle. He was 87. He was a prominent African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper...
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On May 22, 1959, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father was the first...
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On May 21, 1970, the National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. Black and white students were demanding an end to...
