'I've Blocked Him In': Washington Sheriff Puts Black Newspaper Carrier's Life at Risk After Falsely Telling 911 He Was Threatened, Then Later Recanted

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'I've Blocked Him In': Washington Sheriff Puts Black Newspaper Carrier's Life at Risk After Falsely Telling 911 He Was Threatened, Then Later Recanted

A Washington state sheriff is under fire, after he told a 911 operator a Black newspaper carrier was trying to kill him. He later retracted the statement.

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Nine Caravans of poor people arrived in Washington for first phase of Poor Peoples Campaign. Caravans started from different sections of country on May 2 and picked up demonstrators along the way. In Washington, demonstrators erected camp called Resurrection City on sixteen-acre site near Lincoln

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In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was

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1958

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

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Zora Neale Hurston

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(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”

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Booker T. Washington's Visit to Spokane (1913)

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(1905) Theodore Roosevelt, “Lincoln and the Race Problem”

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1930

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Remembering Sara Dunlap Jackson (1919-1991)

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10

1976

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1968

Black Panther Leaders Killed

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1969

John T. Walker installed as the first Black bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Washington.

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24

1977

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17

1957

Herndon, Wanda J. (1952- )

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The first National Negro Catholic Congress is held

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