Greg O’Dell: D.C.’s Unconventional Convention Man

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Dec

13

1926

Georgia Equal Rights Association organized.

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Jan

10

1866

Eleanor Holmes

Eleanor Holmes (later Eleanor Norton) is born in Washington, DC. A graduate of the Yale University School of Law, Norton will become chairperson of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and a Georgetown University law professor before being elected a non-voting delegate to Congress

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Jun

13

1937

Sit-in Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina

Four students form North Carolina A&T College started Sit-in movement at Greensboro, N.C., five-and-dime store. By February 10 movement had spread to fifteen Southern cities in five states.

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Feb

1

1960

Max Robinson

The first Black network anchor, Max Robinson, who joined ABCs World News Tonight died on this day of complication from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), in Washington, DC.

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Dec

20

1986

First Black Elected Mayor of a Major City

Being elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio made Carl Stokes the first Black to be elected mayor of a major city.

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Nov

13

1967

Institutions of Higher Learning Established

Booker T. Washington established Tuskegee Institute. Also founded in 1881 were Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and Bishop College.

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Jul

4

1881

Julian Bond, communications director of the

Julian Bond, communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, denied seat in Georgia House of Representatives because of his opposition to Vietnam War.

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Jan

10

1966

More than 160 activists jailed after demonstration

More than 160 activists jailed after demonstration in Albany. By August almost one thousand demonstrators had been arrested in the Georgia city.

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Jul

21

1962

First Coin Honoring a Black and Designed by a Blac

The first coin honoring a Black and designed by a Black was issued. The fifty-cent piece, which became available on this day, contained the bust of Booker T. Washington.

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Dec

16

1946

Denzel Washington Born

Actor Denzel Washington was born on this day in Mount Vernon, NY. Washington will star in such films as Malcolm X, Glory, Much Ado about Nothing, and A Soldiers Story. He will have a start in television in his role on popular show St. Elsewhere. He will win an Academy Award for best supporting

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Dec

28

1954

The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the lik

The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. Washington.

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Apr

7

1940

Walter E. Fauntroy born

Walter E. Fauntroy was born in Washington, D.C. He went on to become a District of Columbia delegate to the House of Representatives.

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Feb

6

1933

Phyllis Wheatley Dies

Phyllis Wheatley, the first African-American author to be published in book form, dies in poverty at the age of thirty-one. Wheatley astonished Bostonians with her ability to write poetry while yet being a slave.

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Dec

5

1784

Selma Burke

Scupltor and educator Selma Burke was born on this day in Mooresville, North Carolina. She is commissioned to create a profile of President Franklin D. Roosevelt after a national competition sponsored by the Fine Arts Commission in Washington, D.C.; the completed project, a plaque, is unveiled and

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Dec

31

1900

Dan McClellan

Dan mcClellan was the first black baseball player to pitch a perfect game.

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Jan

0

2000

Booker T

Booker T. Washington dined at the White House with President Roosevelt and was criticized in the South.

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Oct

16

1901

Football player and actor Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was born in Orange, Texas.

Football player and actor Charles Aaron Bubba Smith was born in Orange, Texas. Smith began his professional football career with the Baltimore Colts. He later played for the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders before retiring and making a name for himself in movies.

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Jan

29

1945

Race riot in Wilmington, North Carolina

Race riot, Wilmington, North Carolina. Eight Blacks were killed.

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Nov

10

1898

Chenault Promoted in American Express

Kenneth Chenault become the first Chief Operating Officer and President of American Express. By 2001, it is speculated that he will become CEO. This will be the first time an AFrican American heads one of the main financial companies.

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Jan

0

1997

Leroy "Satchel" Paige, major league baseballplayer, named all-time

Leroy Satchel Paige, major league baseball player, named all-time outstanding player by National Baseball Congress

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Jan

30

1965

A Connecticut law bars blacks and Native Americansfrom military service.

A Connecticut law bars blacks and Native Americans from military service.

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Jan

0

1660

Events After Martin Luther King Jr's Death

Martin Luther King Jr. buried after funeral services at Ebenezer Baptist Church and memorial services at Morehouse College, Atlanta. More than 300,000 persons marched behind the coffin of the slain leader which was carried through streets of Atlanta on farm wagon pulled by two Georgia

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Apr

9

1968

Conference in the Wormley Hotel

At a conference in the Wormley Hotel in Washington, representatives of Rutherford B. Hayes and representatives of the South negotiated agreement which paved the way for the election of Hayes as president and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.

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Feb

26

1877

1787 Georgia's House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin,William

1787 Georgias House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgias commissioners to the Philadelphia constitutional convention.

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Feb

10

1787

William and Ellen Craft escaped from slavery

William and Ellen Craft escaped from slavery in Georgia. Mrs. Craft impersonated a slave holder and her husband, William, assumed the role of her servant in one of the most dramatic of the slave escapes.

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Dec

26

1848

Henry McNeal Turner Born

Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age

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Feb

1

1834

Larry Doby became manager of the Chicago White Sox

Larry Doby became manager of the Chicago White Sox baseball team. He was fired on October 19.

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Jun

30

1978

Larry Doby

Larry Doby is born. He will become the first African American in baseballs American League, playing for the Cleveland Indians. He will be the 1954 RBI leader.

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Dec

13

1924

Death of Carter G. Woodson

Death of Carter G. Woodson (74), father of Black history, Washington, D.C.

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Apr

3

1950

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