Freedom at last: Roosevelt Myles released after 28 years behind bars

National Negro Congress organized at Chicago

National Negro Congress organized at Chicago meeting attended by 817 delegates representing more than 500 organizations. Asa Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was elected president of the new organization.

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Feb

14

1936

City University of New York had open admissions

City University of New York inaugurated open admissions policy designed to increase the number of poor and minority students.

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Aug

14

1970

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1780 - Two blacks aid in the capture of British spy, Major John Andre, in New York.

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Jan

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1780

The movie, Green Pastures, premieres in New York's

The movie, Green Pastures, premieres in New Yorks Radio City Music Hall.

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Jul

16

1936

Executive Order 9808

In the aftermath of World War II, mob violence and lynching of Black Americans, in conjunction with the continuing controversy about segregation in American society, led President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9808 on this day which set up a committee to study the protection of civil

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Dec

5

1946

Philips, 1st Black nominated president

Rev. Channing E. Philips of Washington, D.C., became first Black nominated for president by a major national party. Philips was nominated as favorite son candidate by District of Columbia delegation at Democratic convention in Chicago and received 671/2 votes.

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Aug

28

1968

Actor/Comedian Godfrey Cambridge born

Godfrey Cambridge, actor and comedian born in New York.

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Feb

26

1933

Birth of Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable

Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable was a black pioneer, trader and founder of the settlement that later became the city of Chicago.

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Nov

4

1750

Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club

Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club in

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Dec

4

1927

Singer Leslie Uggams born

Singer Leslie Uggams, who made her singing debut with the Lawrence Welk Band, was born in New York city.

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May

25

1943

Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born

Katherine Dunham

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Jun

22

1912

Chicago's first African American mayor, Harold Washington, was born.

Chicagos first African American mayor, Harold Washington, was born.

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Apr

15

1922

Birthday

Charles White Born April 2, 1918. Renowned African-Americccan artist born in Chicago, IL; died October 3, 1979. Charles White began his professional career by painting murals for the WPA during the Depression. He was influenced by Mexiccan muralists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siquieros. Among

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Apr

2

1918

Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight

Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight boxing champion, in Chicago.

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May

27

1975

Activist Faye Wattleton

Faye Wattleton, a rgeistered nurse and New York activist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Wattleton served as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992.

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Jul

8

1943

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable established the first permanent settlement at 'Sk

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable established the first

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Mar

13

1773

Second annual report of the NAACP

Second annual report of the NAACP listed total receipts from May through December, 1911, of $10,317.43. Organization had local chapters in Chicago, Boston and New York.

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Jan

1

1912

Riot prevented Paul Robeson form singing

Riot prevented Paul Robeson form singing at the Lakeland picnic grounds near Peekskill, Weschester County, New York.

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Aug

28

1949

Police officers and Blacks exchanged sniper fire

Police officers and Blacks exchanged sniper fire on Chicagos West Side. One youth was killed and nine policemen were injured.

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Oct

8

1969

Pioneer in surgery, Dr Daniel Hale Williams, founds Provident Hospital in Chicag

Pioneer in surgery, Dr Daniel Hale Williams, founds Provident Hospital in Chicago, IL

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Jan

23

1889

James P. Thomas

Before his death on this day, James P. Thomas opened a barbershop in his Tennessee home; over his lifetime he accumulated almost $100,000 in assests and property.

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Dec

17

1913

Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen, USMC (Ret.)

Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen, was born 1932 in Topeka, Kansas. At the age of 20, he was the first Afro-American to be named a naval aviator

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Jan

0

1932

Study of Negro Life And History

Association for they Study of Negro Life and History organized at Chicago meeting. The name of the organization, the major organizing center for the dissemination of information on Black history, was changed in the sixties to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.

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Sep

9

1913

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

Tarik, the Moor, invades Spain.

On April 30, 711AD General Tarik al Gibral, a Nafza Berber after whom the famed Rock of Gibralter is named, crossed to Andalus (Spain under the Visigoths) with a force of seven thousand troops. After several battles in which the Visigoths were completely routed, the Moorish-Berber-Arab force

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Apr

30

1971

Lou Rawls is born

Louis Allen Rawls AKA Lou Rawls born in Chicago. He is a three-time Grammy-winning singer and has been a popular black MOR singer since the Fifties.

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Dec

1

1935

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, is born

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, Born May 29, 1914 in Mexia, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science from Wiley College in 1934 and a Master of Science from Atlanta University in 1936. Henry McBay earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1945. McBay served as an Instructor

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May

29

1914

Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago

Ground is broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet Margaret T. Burroughs in 1961, the DuSable is one of the oldest African American museums in the U.S.

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Sep

17

1991

Clarence Willi Norris, last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age

Clarence Willi Norris, last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age 76 whiel a patient at the Bronx Community Hospital. Norris was one of nine African American teenagers accused of the 1931 rape of two white prostitutes in Alabama. The case was tried several times between 1931 and 1937

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Jan

22

1989

Countee Cullen, born

Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist

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May

30

1903

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