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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 19, 1964 Rev. Joseph Jackson outlined why he felt that obtaining and using the vote were the only necessary actions to bring...
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On September 18, 1990 Atlanta, Ga., led by Mayor Maynard H. Jackson, is selected as the site of the XXV Olympiad Summer Games.
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On September 17, 1991 Ground was broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet...
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On September 16, 1989 Debbye Turner was crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win the crown since the first Miss...
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On September 15, 1963 That Sunday morning, a white man was seen placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
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On September 14, 1970 One Black person was killed and two whites injured in a shoot-out between activists and police officers in a New...
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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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