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Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll - Black News Channel

By Martin Crutsinger and Paul Wiseman AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy plunged by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter, and the coronavirus pandemic is still cutting a path of destruction, forcing millions out of work and shuttering businesses. The economy's stunning contraction in the April-June quarter came as the viral outbreak pushed already struggling businesses to close for a second time in many parts of the country, sending unemployment surging to nearly 15%. The government's estimate Thursday of the second-quarter fall in the gross domestic product was the sharpest such drop on records dating to […]

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NAACP Executive Director

Death of Roy Wilkins (80), longtime executive director of the NAACP, in New York.

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8

1981

President Eisenhower established Government

President Eisenhower established Government Contract Compliance Committee to supervise anti-discrimination regulations in government contracts.

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Aug

13

1953

City College President

Dr. Bernard Harleston, former dean of arts and sciences at Tufts University, appointed president of New Yorks City College.

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Mar

6

1981

First Black Petition

First black legal protest in America pressed by

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Feb

0

1644

Mae Jemison: Astronaut, Physician

Born: October 17, 1956

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Oct

17

1956

Blacks Declared Non-Citizens of US

The Acting Commissioner of General Lands for the United States, J.S. Wilson, stated that blacks were not citizens of the United States, and therefore were not legally entitled to preempt public lands.

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Mar

7

1859

Actress Melba Moore born

Birthday of actress Melba Moore in New York city.

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Oct

29

1945

Cottonpickers organized union and strike

Cottonpickers organized union and staged strike for higher wages in Texas.

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Sep

3

1891

William Levi Dawson

William Levi Dawson is born, first African American representative to chair a committee in Congress.

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Apr

26

1883

Grover Cleveland Wins Election

Grover Cleveland won election and became the first Democratic president of the United States since the Civil War.

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Nov

4

1884

Blacks Elected to Congress

Sixteen Blacks were elected to Congress. Andrew Young of Atlanta was the first Black elected to Congress from the Deep South since the Reconstruction era. Also elected for the first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Calif.). Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of

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Nov

17

1972

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the shoe capital of the

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Mar

19

1883

Arthur Ashe, the first winner of the U.S.Open

Arthur Ashe became the first winner of the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands at Forest Hills Stadium, New York.

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Sep

9

1968

John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party.

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Jun

24

1884

Republican National Convention, meeting in

Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated U.S. Grant for the presidency. Convention marked the national debut of Black politicians. P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana and James J. Harris were delegates to the convention. Harris was named to the committee which informed Grant of his

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May

20

1868

Four newcomers elected to Congress

Four newcomers elected to Congress: Mervyn Dymally (Calif.), Augustus Savage (ILL.), Harold Washington (Ill.) and George W. Crockett Jr. (Mich.).

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Nov

30

1981

Virginia Students Protest Segregated Schools

Students attending Moton High School, Prince Edward County, Virginia led a walk out to protest separate and unequal school

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Apr

23

1951

First Black Appointed to a Sub-Cabinet Post

William Henry Lewis was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States by President William Howard Taft, making him the first Black appointed to a sub-cabinet post.

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Nov

26

1911

April 3, 1944. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling declared that Blacks could not be barred form voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The high court repudiated the contention that political parties are private associations and held that discrimination aginst Blacks violated the 15th

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Apr

3

1944

National Baptist Convention

These Baptist groups, the Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, the American National Baptist Convention, the Baptist National Education Convention, Merged and established the National Baptist Convention at an Atlanta meeting.

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Sep

28

1895

David Norman Dinkins began his first working day as mayor

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Jan

2

1990

Katherine Dunham (1910-)

American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She was a pioneer in the use of folk and ethnic choreography, and considered one of the founders of the anthropological dance movement. With Aida in 1963, she became the first Black to choreograph for the Metropolitan Opera in New York city.

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Sep

6

2001

New York Slave Revolt. April 7, 1712 Nine whites were killed in a slave revolt in New York City. Planned by 27 slaves, the rebellion was begun by setting fire to an outhouse; as whites came to put the fire out, there were shot. The state militia was called out to capture the rebels and the city of

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Apr

7

1712

U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said

U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said grandfather clauses in the Oklahoma and Maryland constitutions violated the Fifteenth Amendment.

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Jun

21

1915

Chemist Percy Julian born

Chemist Percy Julian born in Montgomery, Alabama. Julian studied at DePauwm, Fisk, Harvard and Vienna (Germany) Universities. In his lifetime he discovered several synthetic substances including one that made paint water-tight, cortisone and a fire suppressing foam.

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Apr

11

1899

First Slave revolt in America

The first slave revolt in America actually occurred 93 years

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Jan

0

1526

Debi Thomas wins the gold medal at the United States Figure Skating Championships in Hicksville, Long Island, New York

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Jan

0

1986

Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868).

Born in Danville, Vermont, in 1792, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1814, and moved to York, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Gettysburg, PA for fourteen

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Jul

4

1861

New York and New Jersey legally recognize the institutionof slavery.

New York and New Jersey legally recognize the institution of slavery.

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Jan

0

1664

Compensation For States

President Lincoln, in message to Congress, recommended the use of federal bonds to provide compensation for states that abolished slavery before 1900.

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Dec

1

1862

Politics Facts

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