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Ubangi Blackhawks
The Ubangi Blackhawks were a predominantly black semipro football team in Seattle who played for the Community League in the 1930s.  Sponsored by nightclub owner Noodles Smith, who was said to be present for every game, the team was also helped by Bruce Rowell who looked after the teams financial
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Nov
5
1937
Fayetteville State University (1867-- )
Fayetteville State University is a historically black institution of the University of North Carolina system located in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  It is the second oldest higher education institution in North Carolina and was founded in 1867 as Howard School in honor of General Oliver Otis
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James Brown
Name at birth: James Joe
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Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
Britton, Theodore R., Jr. (1925- )
Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr. was born on October 17, 1925 in North Augusta, South Carolina. In 1936, he and his family migrated to New York City, New York. Britton was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although he was unaware
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Nat Clifton joins the NBA and becomes one of the first Blacks to play in an NBA
Nat Clifton joins the NBA and becomes one of the first Blacks to play in an NBA game, 1950
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Oct
22
1950
Football player, William Henry Lewis, named All-American, 1893
Football player, William Henry Lewis, named All-American, 1893
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Sponsored by Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Boston Professional Chapter
Oct
31
1893
O’Neal, Adrienne S. (1954- )
In 2011, Adrienne S. O’Neal, career Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde). O’Neal was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 to Samuel and Vernese Boulware ONeal. Her
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The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (2006)
THE MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE (MCRI), PROPOSAL 2, AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION
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Sponsored by Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies
James Baskett Wins Academy Award
In 1947 James Baskett(1904-1948)was given a Special Academy Award for his part in Disneys Song Of The South. He was the second American of African decent to recieve an Academy Award. Baskett was also the first American of African decent hired by Disney. Unfortunately Baskett was unable to attend
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Mar
21
1947
Jeter, Howard Franklin (1947- )
Howard Jeter, U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and later to Nigeria, was born in Maple Ridge, Union County, South Carolina on March 6, 1947 to James Walter Jeter, Jr. and Emma Mattocks Jeter. Howard Jeter first attended school in a one-room schoolhouse in Maple Ridge. The school had no
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Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Mar
6
1947
White, Lois Jean(1938- )
Lois Jean Barron White, the first African American President of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) was born in Nashville, Tennessee on March 21, 1938. She was raised by her grandmother, Rosa Barron, as her own mother lived away in Massachusetts.  White’s grandmother taught her the value
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
Mar
21
1938
Emmitt Smith
Born on May 15, 1969, in Pensacola, Florida Emmitt Smith wished to be one of the Dallas Cowboys from a young age but the enthusiastic individual had to face many struggles before he could pursue a career in professional football. Belonging to a financially weak family, Smith had to juggle between
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May
15
1969
Race riot, Atlanta
Race riot, Atlanta.
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Sep
6
1966
Lisa Leslie, basketball star born
Lisa Leslie
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Jul
7
1972
Andrew Young elected to Congress
On this date in 1972, Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta, become the first African Americans from the south elected to Congress since Reconstruction.
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Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Nov
17
1972
Twenty Million Dollar Gift to Spelman College
Bill and Camille Cosby gave an unprecedented gift of $20 million to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Nov
4
1988
Eric Dickerson
Born in a small town of Sealy, Texas, in 1960, Eric Dickerson was raised by his uncle and aunt after his mother decided not to marry his father at the young age of 17. Even though he did not grow up with his father, Dickerson inherited athletic abilities from the former running back of Prairie View
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Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. (1821- )
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) is the oldest continuously operating black church in the District of Columbia.  Metropolitan AME is also designated by the AME Church (the black denomination founded in 1787 by Richard Allen) as the National Cathedral of African
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Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Jan
9
1894
Saint Paul’s College of Virginia (1888-- )
Saint Paul’s College of Virginia is a private college located in Lawrenceville, Virginia.  The college was founded on September 24, 1888, by James Solomon Russell, a newly-ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He became the first principal of the institution, which in 1890 was
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Sep
24
1888
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a popular figure in the American history for his reputation as an African-American civil rights activist. He actively participated in overturning segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was the field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
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Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Jun
7
1963
Herman Cain
Herman Cain is the retired businessman and lobbyist from Georgia who in 2011 ran for the Republican nomination for president. Herman Cain came to politics late in life, rising to prominence after a public debate in 1994 with President Bill Clinton over the presidents plan to reform health care. At
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First African American Intercollegiate football
Livingstone and Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith) play the first African American intercollegiate football game
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Dec
27
1892
(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
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Levi Jackson
Levi Jackson became the first black football captain at Yale University.
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Jan
0
2000
Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee established in
Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee established in Atlanta.
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Sponsored by National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Boston Professional Chapter
May
26
1961
Football player and actor Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was born in Orange, Texas.
Football player and actor Charles Aaron Bubba Smith was born in Orange, Texas. Smith began his professional football career with the Baltimore Colts. He later played for the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders before retiring and making a name for himself in movies.
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Sponsored by Pride Academy
Jan
29
1945
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in and ordered to serve four months in the Georgia State Prison for violating a probated traffic sentence.
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Oct
19
1960
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie Cochran was a lawyer, who handled several high profile celebrity cases. He was born on October 2, 1937 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He received his Bachelors’ degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1959. Initially selling insurance policies for a living, Cochran soon began
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Sponsored by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Boston Professional Chapter
Mar
29
2005
Somalia
Al-Shabab formally declared allegiance to al-Qaeda in February 2010, sparking further concern that the group posed a global threat. It claimed responsibility for the July bombing at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, that killed about 75 people who were watching the final game of the World Cup. The
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Jun
28
2011
Denzel Washington
Washington was the first African-American to win a best actor Oscar since Sidney Poitier in 1963… 2002 was the first year that African-Americans won both the best actor and best actress Oscars; Washington won for Training Day and Halle Berry won for her role in Monster’s Ball… Washington has
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