Kenya Copes With Decades of Police Brutality

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1959

Born: /4/954 Birmingham, AlabamaCondoleezza Condi Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. BushBusiness / Schooling:

University of

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President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act

President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act which outlawed discrimination in the sale, rental or leasing of housing. This bill also made it a crime to interfere with civil rights workers and to cross state lines to incite a riot.

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1968

March 24,1837 Canada gives Blacks the right to vote.1865 Black troops ar

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2001

Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898)

Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841 in Prince Edward County, Virginia but was raised in Missouri. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War, Bruce fled to Kansas, becoming a free man before Lincoln’s Emancipation

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John Brown was an abolitionist whomtook direct action to free slaves by force.

John Brown was an abolitionist whom took direct action to free slaves by force. He led a raid on Harpers Ferry, in mid-October in 1859, being convicted of murder, treason and conspiracy. But his way of freeing slaves was the most dramatic way of abolitionist impact, ever seen.

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Oct

15

1859

Ethiopia defeats Italy at Battle of Adowa

The Battle of Adwa and the Victory of Adwa Centenary Medal

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Mar

2

1896

Texas As a Slave State

President John Tyler signed the joint resolution of Congress to admit Texas as a slave state.

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Mar

5

1845

(1865) Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”

On Saturday March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated and began his second term as President. His address to the audience of thousands of spectators was brief, one of the shortest inaugural addresses on record. The Civil War was drawing to a close as Union Armies were bearing down

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Presidential Assistant E. Frederic Morrow born

Presidential Assistant E. Frederic Morrow was born in Hakensack, New Jersey. A graduate of Rutgers University, Morow was a vice president for Bank of America before being appointed an administrative assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Apr

20

1909

Jackson, James Lloyd (1920-2008)

James Lloyd Jackson was one of the little known heroes of the D-Day Landing at Normandy Beach in France in 1944. Jackson was born in Lakeland, Florida on February 25, 1920 to Essie May Holly and Amos Jackson. He graduated from Lakeland High School in 1938. For the next five years he worked for the

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Dec

27

1953

Somalia

Somalia sōmä´leə [key], country (2005 est. pop. 8,591,000), 246,200 sq mi (637,657 sq km), extreme E Africa. It is directly south of the Arabian peninsula across the Gulf of Aden. Somalia comprises almost the entire African coast of the Gulf of Aden and a longer stretch on the Indian Ocean. It is

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Robert Weaver

Robert Weaver, born on this day, beacme the first Black appointed to a presidential cabinet when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to head the newly created Departmentof Housing and Urban Development.

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Dec

29

1907

Race riot, Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas

Race riot, Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas. Five whites and twenty-five to fifty Blacks reported killed. Seventy-six Blacks were reported lynched in 1919. Kansas City Call founded by Chester Arthur Franklin. Spingarn Medal presented to Archibald Grimke, President of the American Negro Academy and

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Oct

13

1919

Liberian President Killed in Coup

Liberian President William R. Tolbert Jr. and twenty-seven others were killed in coup detat by army enlisted men led by master Sergeant Samuel Doe.

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Apr

12

1980

(1787) Jupiter Hammon, “An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York,"

Home

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Cowboy Willie "Bill" Pickett dies

World famous African American cowboy Willie Bill Pickett died in Ponca, Oklahoma, hospital of injuries sustained after he was kicked in the head by a horse on the Millers Brothers Fabulous 101 Ranch.

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Apr

2

1932

First Kansas Colored Volunteers repulsed and drove

First Kansas Colored Volunteers repulsed and drove off superior force of rebels at Island Mound, Missouri. This was the first engagement for Black troops.

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Oct

28

1862

Egypt

Egypt | FactMonster

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Daniel McCree

Daniel McCree recognized the safety benefits enjoyed by hotels, apartment buildings and office buildings and decided to extend that safety to homeowners. Basing his model on fire escapes being used by bigger buildings, McCree created a portable version made of wood that could be attached to the

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Birth of William Seymour

William Seymour was born in Centerville, Louisiana. He is credited as being the inspirational force behind the birth of Pentecostalism in the United States.

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May

2

1870

Proclamation on Violence

President Grant issued proclamation on violence in Mississippi.

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Dec

21

1874

Death of Jomo Kenyatta

Death of Jomo Kenyatta (83), president of Kenya.

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Aug

22

1978

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt was a singer and actress who recorded the hit holiday song “Santa Baby”. She was born on January 17, 1927 in South Carolina to an African American mother and a white father. She was raised by Anna Mae Riley, as her biological mother had abandoned her. It wasn’t until later

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Jan

17

1927

Attorney General George Williams

Attorney General George Williams sent a telegram to Acting Governor Pinchback, saying that the Black politician was recognized by the President as the lawful executive of Louisiana.

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Dec

12

1872

Captured Black Soliders

Surrounded by a superior rebel force, First Kansas Colored Volunteers smashed through rebel lines and sustained heavy casualties in an engagement at Poison Spring, Arkansas. Captured Black soldiers were murdered by the Confederate troops.

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Apr

18

1864

Walter E. Washington

President Lyndon B. Johnson named Walter E. Washington commissioner and unofficial mayor of Washington, D.C.

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Sep

6

1967

President Joseph Jenkins Roberts

President Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a native of Virginia, declared Liberia an independent republic.

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Jul

26

1847

Black were allowed to enter all branches of the US Military Ser

Black were allowed to enter all branches of the US Military Service, when President Franklin D Roosevelt signs Selective Service Act

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Sep

14

1940

Dr. Herman Branson -- Physicist, Chemist

Born: August 14, 1914

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Aug

14

1914

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