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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 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 July 26, 1919 Troops were mobilized to put down the Chicago riot, which erupted on July 27 and continued for several days. Fifteen...
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On July 4, 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum officially opened at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., the site of the assassination of...
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On July 3, 1962 The first Black baseball player in the major leagues was Jackie Robinson. Named to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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On July 2, 2001 Robert Tools became the first recipient in the world of the Abiocor, a self-contained artificial heart, at Jewish Hospital in...
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On July 1, 1976, Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, became the first Black president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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On June 30, 2015 The American Ballet Theatre announced that it had promoted Misty Copeland to principal from soloist, marking the first time the...
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On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-four decision that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, which violated...
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On June 28, 1970, Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay) stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal to be inducted into the US Army...
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On June 25, 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which forbade racial and religious discrimination in war industries, government training programs, and government...
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