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On September 13, 1962 Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett defied the federal government in an impassioned speech on statewide radio-television hookup, saying he would...
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On September 12, 1992 Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space when she launched from the Kennedy Space Center and joined...
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On September 11, 2001 Godwin Ajala is remembered as a U.S. national hero who fought to save the lives of countless people as they...
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On September 10, 1929 The Cleveland Call & Post was established when it merged: Cleveland Call, founded in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett A....
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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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On May 7, 1976, William H. Hastie was inaugurated as the first Black governor of the Virgin Islands. He was nominated judge of the...
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