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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 August 26, 1850, Tarrant County was created by the Texas legislature. The settlement of Fort Worth had a population of 599 whites and...
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On August 25, 1886, Seventy-four Blacks were reported lynched in 1886.
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“On August 24, 1950, Chicago Atty. Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative (alternate delegate) in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations....
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“On August 23, 1908, 52 nurses led by Martha M. Franklin formed the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses to improve the status of...
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On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which ushered in the most sweeping changes in the...
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“On August 21, 2001 Robert Tools, the first man to have a self-contained artificial heart implanted, speaks for the first time on national television....
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On August 20, 1619, the Dutch brought the first Black slaves to the colony of Jamestown.
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On August 19, 1993, Robert C. Maynard, at 56, died of cancer at his home in Oakland. In 1979, Maynard became editor of The...
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On August 18, 1976, Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. assumed command of the U.S. Third Fleet.
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On August 17, 1887, Marcus Garvey, the father of the black nationalist and Pan-African movements, was born in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.
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