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Foundations for Freedom, Inc. hosts ‘Strength For My Sisters Shoe Drive’

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On Saturday, October 10, 2020, Foundations for Freedom, Inc., hosted 'Strength For My Sisters Shoe Drive' a free shoes, boots, sweaters, jackets and clothes giveaway at 32nd and Lisbon Ave. After seeing two women this summer with no shoes on, Foundations for Freedom, Inc., CEO and Founder Dana World-Patterson (right photo, center) began collecting more... [Read More]

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Leontyne Price Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
Leontyne Price received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Jan
0
1964
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit against Irene Emerson for their freedom. The Dred Scott case was first brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor, west wing courtroom of St. Louis Courthouse. A black slave from Missouri who claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in
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Apr
6
1846
Dorothy Height born
Birthday of Dorothy Irene Height in Richmond, Virginia. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than three decades, organized a successful drive to place a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in a District of Columbia park. Once erected, the statue became the first of an African
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Mar
24
1912
Murphy, John Henry, Sr. (1840-1922)
Born on December 25, 1840, in Baltimore, Maryland, John Henry Murphy grew up as a slave and freed by the Emancipation Act of 1863. He enlisted in the military at age 24, during the Civil War and quickly progressed to the rank of Sergeant by the end of the conflict.  When he returned home to
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Dec
25
1840
Morrison, Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" (1931- 2019)
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio to parents George and Ella Ramah Wofford, novelist Toni Morrison grew up in a working class family.  She received a B.A. degree from Howard University after majoring in English and minoring in the classics.  Wofford earned an
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Feb
18
1931
Did You Know That In...
1706 - A New York act is passed encouraging the baptism of slaves, although the baptism does not entitle a slave to freedom.
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Jan
0
1706
Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery;passes law enslaving al
Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery; passes law enslaving all imported Africans; freeborn English women who marry black slaves are enslaved, as are the childred of such unions.
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Jan
0
1663
Nell, William C. (1816-1874)
William C. Nell was an African American civic activist, abolitionist, and historian. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Nell was the son of William Guion Nell, a prominent tailor and black activist. William C. Nell was introduced to racial inequality and black activism from birth. In the
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Mason, Bridget "Biddy" (1818 - 1891)
Bridget “Biddy” Mason, born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, achieved financial success that enabled her to support her extended family for generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. In a landmark case she sued her master for their freedom, saved her earnings, invested in real
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Jan
19
1856
Dash, Julie (1952- )
Filmmaker Julie Dash was born on October 22, 1952 in Queens, New York. She received her B.A. in film production from City College of New York in 1974 and went on to earn a two-year fellowship to the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles.  At AFI, Dash
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Oct
22
1952
Young, Coleman A. (1918-1997)
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Coleman Young arrived in Detroit, Michigan with his family when he was five.  The Colemans settled in the working class neighborhood of Black Bottom (East Detroit), where his father operated a dry cleaning business and his mother was a schoolteacher.  Early in his life
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Fugitive slave arrested in Boston
Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, was arrested in Boston. His master refused an offer of $1200 made by Boston citizens for his freedom.
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Jun
3
1854
Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity
Singler, Joan, et al, Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity
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Black Anti-Slavery Crusaders
There were a host of free Blacks who struck out against slavery. Many of these were
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0
Slavery Purchased America's Freedom
Slavery Purchased Americas Freedom: While the white Americans profit from slave trade, they actually benefited from the slave system to fund the war against England. As one historian put it, Americans actually purchased their freedom with products grown by slaves and then traded to the French
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May
2
2002
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin was an important figure in the civil rights movement. She was born on September 5, 1939. At birth, she was adopted by C. P. Colvin and Mary Anne Colvin, who lived in a poor neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama. This was a time of intense racial divide, and Colvin was a victim of it
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Mar
2
1955
King, Marjorie Edwina Pitter (1921-1996)
Marjorie Edwina Pitter King, the youngest of the Pitter sisters, was born March 8, 1921, to Edward A. Pitter and Marjorie Allen Pitter, in Seattle, Washington. When she graduated from Garfield High School, she joined her sisters at the University of Washington to study for an accounting degree in
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Mar
8
1921
Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, dies.
Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, dies. Born into slavery, she ran away form her owners after mistreatment by her masters wife. She petitioned successfully for her freedom, citing her knowledge of the Bill of Rights and the new constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in her argument that all men
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Dec
28
1829
Johnson, Charles V. (1928- )
Charles Vernon Johnson was an influential member of the Seattle African American community from the moment he moved out west in 1954 to attend law school at the University of Washington.  Johnson, originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, was one of a few black graduate students at the University of
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Jewell Jackson McCabe
Jewell Jackson McCabe, first president of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, born
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Aug
2
1945
Slave revolt On The Creole
Slave revolt on the Creole, which was en route to New Orleans, from Hampton, Virginia. Rebels overpowered crew and sailed ship to the Bahamas, where they were granted asylum and freedom.
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Nov
7
1841
Rosa Parks
Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey
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Dec
1
1955
Richard Allen, founder of the AME Church, purchases his freedom with his earning
Richard Allen, founder of the AME Church, purchases his freedom with his earnings as a self-employed teamster.
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Sep
3
1783
Ethiopia Invaded by Italy
Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior
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Oct
3
1935
Gabriel Prosser
Gabriel Prosser was born sometime in 1775 in Virginia. The Haitian Revolution of the times did not go unnoticed. In the plantation houses it was
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Jan
0
1775
(1856) Sara G. Stanley Addresses The Convention Of Disfranchised Citizens Of Ohio
In January 1856, Sara G. Stanley, representing the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Delaware, Ohio, addressed the all-male Convention of Disfranchised Citizens of Ohio who met at the Columbus City Hall. She called upon the forty delegates who included among their ranks John Mercer Langston, Peter
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William Wells Brown, novelist and dramatist,publishes first Black
William Wells Brown, novelist and dramatist, publishes first Black drama, Leap to Freedom
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Jan
30
1858
Lane, William Henry/Master Juba (1825-c. 1852)
William Henry Lane is credited as one of the most influential figures in the creation of American tap dance. Lane developed a unique style of using his body as a musical instrument, blending African-derived syncopated rhythms with movements of the Irish jig and reel. Lane’s melding of these
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Figure skating pioneer dies
Mabel Fairbanks, 85, the first black women to be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame died following a long illness. Fairbanks coached Olympians Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner.
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29
2001
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1733 - Spanish decree promises escaped English slaves freedom in Florida.
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0
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