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On October 20, 1946 W.E.B. Du Bois, at 78, delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia, South...
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On October 19, 1944 The US Navy announced that Black women would be permitted to join Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). The...
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On October 18, 1968Bob Beamon beat the World long jump record at 29 ft, 2.5 in at the Mexico City Olympics.
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On October 17, 2019 Congressman Elijah Cummings died. ‘A giant of integrity and knowledge has fallen’: Washington reacts to the death of Rep. Elijah...
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On October 16, 1995 An estimated 850,000 African American men from across the United States gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., one...
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On October 15, 1969 A protest began when Willie Black, a 32-year-old math graduate student and head of Wyoming’s Black Student Alliance, learning of...
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On October 14, 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, making him the youngest person ever to receive the...
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On October 13, 1980 Rayford W. Logan received the Spingarn Medal, “”in tribute to his lifetime of service as an educator and historian.
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On October 12, 1945 Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County. Florida.
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On October 11, 1963 Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of Black nationalism...
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