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Booker T. Washington receives an honorary degree from Harvard University.
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15
1896
Dr. Herman Branson -- Physicist, Chemist
Born: August 14, 1914
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Aug
14
1914
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
Irving C. Mollison
Irving C. Mollison, a Chicago Republican, sworn in as U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City.
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Nov
3
1945
President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg,
President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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Jan
5
1875
W Wilson Goode becomes the 1st African American mayor of Philadelphia
W Wilson Goode becomes the 1st African American mayor of Philadelphia
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Oct
9
1984
On this day in 1874, Congressman Robert Brown Elliot deliveredone of the most
On this day in 1874, Congressman Robert Brown Elliot delivered
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Jan
6
1874
Congress passed the first Enforcement Act which
Congress passed the first Enforcement Act which provided stiff penalties for public officials and private citizens who deprived citizens of the suffrage and civil rights. The measure authorized the use of the U.S. Army to protect the rights of Blacks.
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May
31
1870
A Policy of Segregation
America entered World War I. President Wilson, who had just inaugurated a policy of segregation in government agencies, told Congress that the world must be made safe for democracy.
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Apr
6
1917
Anti-lynching Bill Proposed
African American Congressman George H. White,R-North Carolina, introduced a bill to make lynching of Americans a federal offense. The bill died in committee. In 1900, 105 African Americans were lynched in the United States.
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Jan
20
1900
Death of George Washington Williams
Death of George Washington Williams (41), Blackpool, England. Williams served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1880 to 1881, during the 64th session of the General Assembly. He was the first African-American to serve in the Ohio Legislature.
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Aug
4
1891
Supreme Court decision
Supreme Court decision (Nixon v. Herndon) struck down Texas law which barred Blacks from voting in white primary.
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Mar
7
1927
Patricia Harris
Patricia Harris, the first Black woman to hold a presidential cabinet position, is born in Mattoon Illinois.
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May
31
1924
Virginia statue provides that baptism will not affectthe bondage of slaves.
Virginia statue provides that baptism will not affect the bondage of slaves.
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Jan
0
1667
Yuonne Brathwaite Burke
In 1972 Yuonne Burke was the first black woman elected to Congress from Califorinia.
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Jan
0
1972
Spingarn Medal: Robert R. Moton
Spingarn Medal awarded to Robert R. Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute, for his thoughtful leadership in conservative opinion and action.
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Nov
8
1932
1st Black Supreme Court Justice
Joseph W. Hatchett sworn in as first Black supreme court justice in the South in the twentieth century.
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Sep
2
1975
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in
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Jan
1
1863
Richard Theodore Greener
Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University
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Jan
30
1844
Segregation Movements
Tennessee started modern segregation movement with Jim Crow railroad car and was followed by Florida (1887), Mississippi (1888), Texas (1889), Louisiana (1890), Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Georgia (1891), South Carolina (1898), North Carolina (1899), Virginia (1900), Maryland (1904), Oklahoma
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Dec
24
1881
U.S. Supreme Court said school systems must end
U.S. Supreme Court said school systems must end segregation at once and operate now and hereafter only unitary schools. In Mississippi case, Alexander V. Holmes, the Court abandoned the principle of all deliberate speed.
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Oct
29
1969
W.E.B. Du Bois died
W.E.B. Du Bois (95), scholar, protest leader and a founder of the NAACP, died in
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Aug
27
1963
Marion Perkins (Sculptor)
Sculptor, Marion Perkins, died on 12/17/61. During the Depression of the thirties, Marion Perkins sold papers at a newsstand on Chicagos South Side. In his free moments at the stand he busied himself whittling on bars of soap. Peter Pollack, then director of the Community Art Center Division of the
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Dec
17
1961
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties outlaws bondslavery (a term used interchan
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties outlaws bond
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Jan
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1641
Selma March completed
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with other notable civil rights leaders and thousands of supporters reach Montgomery Alabama after marching 4 days from Selma.
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Mar
25
1965
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in, and becomes the first Black Suprem
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in, and becomes the first Black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
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Oct
2
1967
Cardiss R. Collins
Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.
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Jun
5
1973
George H. White
George H. White, the only African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, (1896) and the first to introduce an antilynching bill, born. He also founded Whitesboro, N,J, as a haven for African Americans escaping Southern racism.
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Dec
18
1852
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1777 - New Jersey opens public schools for black children.
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Jan
0
1777
William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transpor
William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to hold a Cabinet level position
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Jan
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