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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 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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