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“On August 23, 1908, 52 nurses led by Martha M. Franklin formed the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses to improve the status of...
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On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which ushered in the most sweeping changes in the...
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“On August 21, 2001 Robert Tools, the first man to have a self-contained artificial heart implanted, speaks for the first time on national television....
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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 May 20, 1971, a Pentagon report said Blacks constituted 11 per cent of U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia. The report said 12.5 per...
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On May 19, 1991, Willy T. Ribbs became the first African American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S....
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On May 16, 1966 Stokely Carmichael was named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Welfare Rights Organization was organized.
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On May 15, 1946, Camilla Williams, the African American woman to sign a contract with a major American opera company, appeared in the title...
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On May 14, 1994, Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State in 2001 under President George W. Bush, had his most important...
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On May 13, 1969, in Fayette, Mississippi, James Charles Evers was elected the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town. In June...
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On May 12, 1967, H “Rap” Brown replaced Stokely Carmichael as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. As SNCC’s new chair, Brown was...
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On May 9, 1994, Kimberly Clarice Aiken Cockerham was recognized by People Magazine as one of the “Fifty Most Beautiful People in the World.”...
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On May 8, 2009 Ronald Cordell Sims became the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sims, now second-in-command of...
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