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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 6, 1987, Mae C. Jemison, M.D., was chosen by NASA to begin training as a space shuttle astronaut.
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On June 5, 1973, Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago was elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.
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On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted by a white jury in San Jose, Calif., of charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shoot-out.
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On June 2, 1975 James A Healy, the first Black Roman Catholic bishop, was consecrated in a cathedral in Portland, Maine.
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On June 1, 1909, Ida B. Wells gave a speech at the National Negro Conference, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement...
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On May 31, 1921, this was the worst riot in American history. 15,000 Blacks were left homeless, between 300 and 3000 were killed, wounded,...
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On May 30, 1965, Vivian Malone Jones became the first Black student to graduate from the formerly segregated University of Alabama. She was one...
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On May 28, 2014 Maya Angelou, original name Marguerite Annie Johnson (born April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
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On May 26, 1961, the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta.
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On May 24, 1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall was installed as president of the New York County Medical Society and became the first Black...
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