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Justice Department filed suit

Justice Department filed suit against the St. Louis suburb of Black Jack, charging the community with illegally using municipal procedures to block an integrated housing development.

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Jun

14

1971

Vernon E.Jordan Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr., former executive director of the United Negro College Fund, appointed executive director of the National Urban League.

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Jun

15

1971

1st black to hold exec. position in White House

E. Frederic Morrow appointed administrative aide to President Eisenhower and became the first Black to hold an executive position on the White House staff.

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Jul

9

1955

Ella Baker

Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia. A civil rights worker who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP, Baker will become executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960s during student integration of lunch counters in the southern states. She also will play

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Dec

13

1903

Alan Keyes

Though Keyes is sometimes called “Ambassador Keyes,” the title can be a bit misleading: he served as the American ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, not as ambassador to the U.N. as a whole or to any individual nation… Opposed to a homosexual lifestyle, Keyes

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Roy Wilkins

Born: 8/30/1901 St. Louis, MissouriDied: 9/8/1981 New York City, New YorkRoy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Business

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Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama is a 1985 graduate of Princeton University. Her brother, Craig Robinson, class of 1983, was a basketball star there and has been head coach at Brown University and Oregon State University… Although she’s younger than Barack Obama, Michelle graduated from Harvard Law School first, in

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African American Freemen In Louisiana: African Americans in Louisiana had alread

African American Freemen In Louisiana: African Americans in Louisiana had already organized their own battalion in September 1812. The state legislature of Louisiana had organized a Corp of free African Americans as part of the state militia. After General Andrew Jacksons call to arms, the

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Sep

12

2002

Congressman George Washington Murray was himself responsible for 12 patents whic

Congressman George Washington Murray was himself responsible for 12 patents which include: Combined Furrow Opener, Stalk Knocker, Cultivatior and Market, Planter, Cotton Chopper and Fertilizing Distributor, among others.

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Aug

10

1894

Urban League President

Vernon E. Jordan resigned as president of the National Urban League and announced plans to join a Washington law firm. He was succeeded by John E. Jacob, executive vice president of the league.

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Sep

9

1981

Glenn Harrington, Carmel, California

Glenn Harrington, is a native of Massachusetts, who has lived in the Seattle area since 1968. He was educated at Gordon College and Suffolk University Law School, both in Massachusetts. His business career was primarily as an Insurance Executive, serving as Vice President of Marketing and

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Born on this day: Robin Givens

Model/actress Robin Givens first gained national prominence as a regular on the TV series Head of the Class. From 1986 through 1991, Robin played Darlene Merriman, a prep-school type attending a high school honors program. She was married to boxing champ Mike Tyson; the marriage ended in divorce.

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Nov

27

1964

Frederick McKinley Jones

Frederick McKinley Jones (1892-1961) - Frederick McKinley Jones built the first automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks. Later, the system was adapted to various other carriers, including railway cars and ships. Mr. Jones new method initiated a change in the eating habits and patterns

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Mar

16

1999

Black Codes enacted

Mississippi passed the so-called Black Codes that barred blacks from jury service, testifying against whites in trials, bearing arms and attending white schools.

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Nov

24

1865

Dr. Mark Dean

Dr. Mark Dean has been with IBM since 1980. Dr. Dean holds 3 of the original 9 patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. Soon after joining IBM, Dr. Dean and a colleague, Dennis Moeller, developed the internal architecture that enables multiple devices, like modems and printers, to be

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Jan

0

2001

Historian Charles H. Wesley dies

Death of scholar, historian, author and former president of Central State College. Charles H. Wesley was known for such works as The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in College Life.

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Aug

16

1987

Florence Price, composer born

Florence Beatrice Smith Price COMPOSER Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas April 9, 1888- June 3, 1953 Florences mother was a music teacher, so naturally, she learned how to play the piano at an early age.She had her first recital by the age of four and had composed and published her first musical

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Apr

9

1888

Zimbabwe

The white minority finally consented to hold multiracial elections in 1980, and Robert Mugabe won a landslide victory. The country achieved independence on April 17, 1980, under the name Zimbabwe. Mugabe eventually established a one-party socialist state, but by 1990 he had instituted multiparty

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Apr

17

1980

Thurgood Marshall announces retirement

US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, citing illness, announces his retirement from the nations highest court after 24 years of service.

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Jun

28

1991

In Tuskegee, Alabama, the Rosenwald Fund made grants to the Alabama State Board

In Tuskegee, Alabama, the Rosenwald Fund made grants to the Alabama State Board of Health to help meet the cost of a sutdy of syphilis in African American men living in rural Georgia and Alabama. Thus would begin a four decade long study of syphilis without treatment. Over 400 men were allowed to

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Feb

12

1930

Squires, Bernard (1904-1947)

Bernard Squires was the president of the Omaha chapter of the Urban League from 1935 to 1939 and the Seattle chapter of the Urban League from 1939 to 1943. Squires was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1904. He graduated from high school in Toledo, and went on to Ohio State University before graduating in

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Jun

1

1939

Unprovoked slayings of six Blacks in Buffalo, New

Unprovoked slayings of six Blacks in Buffalo, New York, triggered demands for national investigation. Spingarn Medal warded to Rayford W. Logan, historian and author, in tribute to his lifetime of service as an educator and historian.

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Oct

13

1980

Ralph Gardner

Ralph Gardner was born on this day in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a pioneer chemist whose research into plastics led to the development of so-called hard plastics. His innovations in the manipulation of catalytic chemicals led to the products for the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries as well

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Dec

3

1922

1967 The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. Thatamend

1967 The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. That amendment provided that in the case of a vice presidents become president, the new president would name a new vice president, subject to confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.

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Feb

10

1967

Charles L. Blockson

On this date in 1933, Charles L. Blockson was born in Norristown, Pa. Blockson became an author and scholar of Black studies. He is considered one of the countrys leading experts on the Underground Railroad and chaired the National Park Services first Underground Railroad Advisory Committee.

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Dec

16

1933

Patricia Roberts Harris, HUD Secretary, dies

Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing and Urban Development Secretary and, in 1965, ambassador to Luxembourg during the Carter Administration, died in Washington, D.C.

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Mar

23

1985

Shooting of Civil Rights Activist

Sammy Younge, Jr., 21, was shot to death by a 67 year old white service station attendant. A Tuskegee Institute student and civil rights activist, Younge was shot after using the Whites only restroom at the service station where the white attendant was working.

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Jan

3

1966

Ex-slave Oscar J. Dunn

Ex-slave Oscar J. Dunn becomes lieutenant governor of Louisiana. It is the highest executive office held by an African American to date.

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Jun

13

1868

Executive Order 9981, to end segregation in US Armed Forces is signed by Preside

Executive Order 9981, to end segregation in US Armed Forces is signed by President Harry Truman

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Jan

26

1948

Whitney Young Jr.

Whitney Young Jr. named executive director of the National Urban League.

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Aug

1

1961

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