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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 June 18, 1942 The U.S. Navy commissions its first Black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
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On June 17, 1923, Marcus Garvey was convicted on federal charges of mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in the Universal...
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On June 16, 1970 Kenneth A. Gibson was elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
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On June 15, 1971, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., former executive director of the United Negro College Fund, was appointed executive director of the National...
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On June 14, 1989, Congressman William Gray is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives, the highest-ranking leadership position ever held by an...
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On June 13, 1990 Bernadette Locke became the first female on-court coach when she was named assistant coach of the University of Kentucky men’s...
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On June 11, 1964 Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly attempting to sabotage the white South African government.
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On June 10, 1915 Albert Robinson died of an unknown illness. Albert Robinson and his wife, Margaret Tull Robinson, originally ran Hotel Robinson. The...
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On June 9, 1989, Congressman John Conyers, D-Michigan, announced a call for a reparations study.
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On June 8, 1953 Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., performed the marriage ceremony of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Miss Coretta Scott at...
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