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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 September 30, 1991 Mike Powell broke the world long jump record, jumping 8.95 meters at a meet in Tokyo. The previous mark was...
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On September 29, 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, became the first Black to receive the Nobel Prize in...
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On September 28 The Secretary of the Army cleared the military records of 167 Black soldiers who were dishonorably discharged in 1906 because they...
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On September 27, 1940 Black leaders protested discrimination in the armed forces and war industries at a White House meeting with President Roosevelt.
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On September 25, 1974 Barbara W. Hancock became the first Black woman named a White House fellow.
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On September 24, 1957 Nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil...
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On September 23, 1961 President Kennedy named Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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On September 22, 1961 The Interstate Commerce Commission issued a regulation prohibiting segregation on interstate buses and terminal facilities.
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On September 21, 1966 The National Guard’s mobilization helped end the riot in Dayton, Ohio. The 1966 Dayton race riot was the largest in...
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On September 20, 1987 Alfre Woodard won an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in the dramatic series L.A. Law. This was her second Emmy,...
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