Council Member Casey Thomas, II, issues statement about funding available to address root causes of poverty

(1897) Mary Church Terrell, “In Union There is Strength,”

Born in Memphis in 1863 and an activist until her death in 1954, Mary Eliza Church Terrell has been called a living link between the era of the Emancipation Proclamation and the modern civil rights movement. Terrell was particularly active in the Washington, D.C. area. From 1895 to 1911, for

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15

1897

Teh Council of New Netherlands passes a resolutionthat opens slave trade to Br

Teh Council of New Netherlands passes a resolution that opens slave trade to Brazil and Angola.

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United Negro College Fund (1944– )

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was founded on April 25, 1944 by Frederick Patterson, President of the Tuskegee Institute, and Mary McLeod Bethune, an advisor to the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, to provide a steady, consistent stream of funding to 27 financially struggling small

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1944

Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers was a popular figure in the American history for his reputation as an African-American civil rights activist. He actively participated in overturning segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was the field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored

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1963

Libya

Anti-government demonstrations gripped several countries in the Middle East in early 2011, and protests in Libya followed those in Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain. The crackdown by the government in Libya, however, was the most vicious. The protesters took to the streets on Feb. 16 in Benghazi, the

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National Afro-American Council

National Afro-American Council founded in Rochester, New York. Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church was elected president. The organization proposed a program of assertion and protest.

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Sep

15

1898

Adams, Henry [Louisiana] (1843 - ?)

Henry Adams was a Louisiana leader who advocated the emigration of southern freed blacks to Liberia after emancipation. Born a slave in Newton County, Georgia on March 16, 1843, Henry Adams was originally born as Henry Houston but changed his name at the age of seven. His enslaved family was

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1843

Brazil

On May 14, 2013, the National Council of Justice ruled that notary publics in Brazil could no longer refuse to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. Many saw the ruling as an opening for gay couples to get married in Latin Americans largest

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2013

Sarah Goode

Sarah E. Goode was the owner of a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois. Her claim to fame is that she was the first Black Woman to receive

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1885

Research Guides & Websites: Global African History

Web research can be very useful and lead to much useful and important information. While every effort has been made to list only reliable sites, researchers should be aware that control of sites change (often without notice) from time to time and, thus, the reliability and point of view of the

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Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale is the co-founder of the now defunct Black Panther Party. He was born in 1936 and was the oldest of three children born to George and Thelma Seale. He was named Robert George Seale at birth. The family initially lived in Texas, but due to their poor financial situation, they travelled

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Kay M. Madati

Prior to Twitter, Madati was Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at BET Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. Madati lead the teams responsible for all aspects of digital, social and mobile strategy and oversees operations, content creation, technology, product development, and third-party

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Moose, George E. (1944 - )

Ambassador George E. Moose’s career in international diplomacy resulted from his spending a college summer in the 1960s building a three-room schoolhouse in Tanzania. The high point of that career came in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to be U.S. Ambassador to Benin and later

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Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks is a pen name of a renowned African-American author, Gloria Jean Watkins. She also took part in social activism and supports feminism. The central focus of her writing is interconnectivity of race, capitalism, and gender. She also explains the influence of these elements to promote

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Sep

25

1952

Cherokee Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

An Act Providing for the Abolition of Slavery in the Cherokee

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Coleman, Michael B. (1954- )

Michael B. Coleman is the first African American Mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Coleman was born on November 18, 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana to John Coleman, a medical doctor, and Joan Coleman, a local civil rights activist. His family relocated to Toledo when Michael turned

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1954

Shirley Ann Jackson

Shirley Ann Jackson is President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to her current role, Jackson was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995 to serve as Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Jackson became the first woman and first African American to hold that

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Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)

Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was

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Annan, Kofi A. (1938-- )

Kofi Atta Annan, born on 8 April 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana, served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) between 1997 and 2007. As a young man, Annan finished his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961. He then completed his

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1997

Clarke, Yvette Diane (1964– )

Yvette Diane Clarke won her first political office when she was elected a member of the New York City Council representing part of Brooklyn in 2001. Clarke succeeded her mother, former City Councilmember, Dr. Una S.T. Clarke, making them the first mother-daughter succession in the history of the

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Nov

21

1964

Overview of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church was born of racial discrimination following the American Revolution when African Americans struggled to establish their own houses of worship. Today the African Methodist Episcopal Church has congregations on four continents. The church was organized in

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Rebel Troops take Kisangani, Zaire

Rebel troops in Zaire take the major city of Kisangani in an effort to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko.

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Mar

16

1997

Fenty, Adrian M. (1970- )

Adrian Malik Fenty was born to Philip and Jan Fenty, an interracial couple, on December 6, 1970, in Washington, D.C. Fenty’s parents were both runners and they owned the athletic shoe store Fleet Feet in Washington, D.C. Fenty graduated from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Washington. While

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(1968) Robert F. Kennedy, “On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

On April 4, 1968, during an Indianapolis, Indiana rally for his presidential campaign, attended by a large number of African Americans, Robert F. Kennedy, despite suggestions he shouldnt appear at all, decided to proceed and announce the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to a group unaware

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1968

Lewis, John R. (1940- )

John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940. In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in

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1940

Kenneth I. Chenault

Kenneth I. Chenault is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for American Express, an American multinational financial services company providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Chenault joined American Express in 1981 and was

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Category:Racism - Wikipedia

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Tavis Smiley

Smiley grew up near Kokomo, Indiana, and attended Indiana University at Bloomington but left in 1988 to work for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. (In 2003 he completed his bachelor’s degree.) Smiley became a national broadcaster in 1996 when he took positions as a political commentator on the Tom

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer , (born November 20, 1923, Springs, Transvaal [now in Gauteng], South Africa—died July 13, 2014, Johannesburg), South African novelist and short-story writer whose major theme was exile and alienation. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in

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2014

Karen Boykin-Towns

In this role, Boykin-Towns leads all of Pfizer’s public affairs, government relations, policy and communication efforts around the

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