Bartlett now longest-serving Cabinet minister

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1639

Nelson Mandelas greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky

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Feb

11

1990

(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

African Methodist Episcopal minister and later Bishop Henry McNeal Turner emerged immediately after the Civil War as one of the most ardent defenders of African Ameriacn rights. Turner was also among the first group of Reconstruction-era African American elected officials. In July 1868, Turner was

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3

1868

Samuel " Black Sam" Fraunces

George Washington gives his farewell address to his troops at Fraunces Tavern in NYC owned by ,Samuel Black Sam Fraunces a wealthy West Indian of African and French descent who aided Revolutionary forces with food and money

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Dec

4

1783

Minister to Liberia

Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia.

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Jul

22

1848

Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South Ameri

Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South American countries, Australia, and the U.S. meet in Atlanta for the first Congress of African People.

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Sep

3

1970

Henry Watson Furness last black minister of Haiti

Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, named minister of Haiti. He was the last Black minister to Haiti in this period. Woodrow Wilson appointed a white minister in 1913.

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Nov

23

1905

Benin

In August 2013, President Boni fired his entire cabinet, including Prime Minister Pascal Koupaki. Part of the reason Boni dismissed his government was due to the allegations that some of them had been linked to Patrice Talon, a Benin businessman accused of trying to poison

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William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor

William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to hold a Cabinet level position

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Jan

14

1975

George W. Buckner

George W. Buckner, a physician from Indiana, named minister to Liberia.

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Sep

10

1913

Marcus Garvey

On July 14, 1914 Marcus Garvey arrived in Jamaica after a long tour which had taken him through Central America and Europe. Five days later on July 19 he launched the largest independent organisation the world has ever seen - the Universal Negro Improvement Association , UNIA, intended to be the

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Jul

14

1914

Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia

Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia.

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Oct

26

1921

British ask for Ashanti Golden Stool

One inspiration of liberation can be seen in Queen Yaa Asantewa of the Ashanti. Ironically enough the Ashanti are included

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Mar

28

1900

James & Lydia Sims

During World War II, Lydia Sims moved from Newark, New Jersey, to Spokane with her husband, James Sims, an Army Air Force soldier stationed at Geiger Airfield. At the end of the war, the Sims family decided to remain in Spokane. For 10 years they lived in the Garden Springs housing

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Mar

19

1969

Usain Bolt

Born: 8/21/1986 Sherwood Content, JamaicaJamaican sprinter. Regarded as the fastest person ever recorded, he is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time measurements became mandatory in 1977. Along with his teammates, he also set the world

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Did You Know That In...

1675 - There are 100,000 African slaves in the West Indies, compared to 5,000 in the North American colonies.

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Jan

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1675

Giffin, Susan

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Guinea bissau

In Nov. 1980, João Bernardo Vieira headed a military coup that deposed Luis Cabral, president since 1974. In his 19 years of rule, Vieira was criticized for crony capitalism and corruption and for failing to alleviate the poverty of Guinea-Bissau, one of the worlds poorest countries. Vieira also

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St lucia

Current government officials

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Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa (1912-1966)

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first Prime Minister ofNigeria before and after Nigerian independence from Great Britain in

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Aretha Franklin the "Queen of Soul", singer born

Aretha Franklin

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Mar

25

1942

Dr

Dr. John E. W. Thompson, graduate of the Yale University Medical School, named minister to Haiti.

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May

7

1885

Henry Highland Garnet

Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presbyterian minister, named minister to Liberia. He died in Monrovia shortly after his arrival.

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Jun

30

1881

Williams v. Mississippi (1898)

? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic

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Birthday of Eldridge Cleaver

Birthday of Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther Party minister of information.

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Aug

31

1935

First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born,

First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born, 1753

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Jul

18

1753

Stokely Carmichael

Born: 6/29/1941 Port of Spain, Trinidad and TobagoDied: 11/15/1998 Conakry, Guinealso known as Kwame Turé, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he

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Locker, Jessie Dwight (1891-1955)

Jessie Locker was an attorney, politician, and community leader who was also the second black American to be appointed as United States Ambassador when he was sent to Liberia

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Eritrea

Current government officials

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Jamiaca's Independence

Jamaica became an independent domininon within the British Commonwealth.

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Aug

6

1962

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