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Morgues and hospitals overflow

MICHIGAN, United States (AP) - Nearly 37,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling obituary pages of small-town newspapers and testing the capacity of morgues, funeral homes and hospitals.

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On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The

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1827

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott v. Sandford, United States Supreme Court, 1857

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Ebony, a pictorial news magazine published by Chicago, Illinois-based Johnson Publishing Company, first appeared in November 1945. Created by John H. Johnson, who modeled his publication after Life magazine, Ebony celebrated African American life and culture by depicting the achievements of black

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Death of Florence Mills, dancer and singer,

Death of Florence Mills (32), dancer and singer, New York City.

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1

1927

Dancer Bojangles dies

Tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson dies in New York city.

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28

1949

Spingarn Medal: Charles R. Drew

Spingarn Medal presented to Charles R. Drew who set up and ran the blood plasma bank in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City which served as one of the models for the widespread system of blood banks now in operation for the American Red Cross.

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20

1944

Louis Armstrong

Born: 8/4/1901 New Orleans, LouisianaDied: 7/6/1971 New York City, New YorkLouis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who was one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music.Awards / Achievements:

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First black CPA

Jesse B. Blayton became the first black certified public accountant in the United States.

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Exibition of African American Art

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Inventor Granville T. Woods dies in New York City on January 30, 1910.

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Thomas L. Jennings -- 1st Black male patent holder

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Wilberforce University (1856- )

Wilberforce University was established near Xenia, Ohio in 1856 as a joint venture between the Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Named after 18th century abolitionist William Wilberforce, it was the first private, historically black university in the United

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Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opened school for Blacks

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1704

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960, Hollywood Walk

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2001

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First Black Woman to Head a Medical School in the

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1993

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1967

Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson

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1961

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1712

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1921

Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

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1986

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1820

The AME Zion Church is dedicated in New York City

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World renowed opera singer, Shirley Verrett, makes her debut in New York City, 1

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