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Dec
21
1959
Blacks win the right to vote in Canada
Blacks win the right to vote in Canada.
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Mar
24
1837
Delegation urges suffrage for blacks
A delegation of blacks, led by Frederick Douglass, visited President Johnson and urged that suffrage be given to all qualified blacks.
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Jan
0
2000
President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg,
President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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Jan
5
1875
South Africa's "truth commission", looking into abuses during the apartheid era,
South Africas truth commission, looking into abuses during the apartheid era, began its public hearings.
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Apr
15
1996
Laurent Kabilia becomes new President of Zaire and renames itthe Democratic Re
Laurent Kabilia becomes new President of Zaire and renames it the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The country was previously under the 37 year rule of Dictator Mobutu SeSE sEKO. cONGO HAS DEMOCRACY.
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May
17
1997
John Lee, becomes first black commissioned officer
John Lee, first black commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy is assigned to
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Mar
13
1957
National Afro-American League, Pioneer Black
National Afro-American League, Pioneer Black protest organization, founded at Chicago meeting. Joseph C. Price, President of Livingstone College, was elected president.
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Jan
25
1890
Walter E. Washington
President Lyndon B. Johnson named Walter E. Washington commissioner and unofficial mayor of Washington, D.C.
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Sep
6
1967
Booker T. Washington
Born: 4/5/856 Hales FordDied: /4/95 Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.Booker T. Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 890 and 95, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last
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Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist
Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist, President of California State University, Fullerton, the first African American to hold such as position in the CSU system, born.
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Jan
17
1924
Black Woman named "American Mother of the Year."
Emma Clarissa Clement, a black woman and mother of Atlanta University President Rufus E. Clement, was named American Mother of the Year by the Golden Rule Foundation. She was the first Afro-American woman to receive the honor.
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May
1
1946
First Black Political Convention
Through the 12th - three thousand delegates and five thousand observers attended the first Black political convention in Gary, Indiana. The NAACP and other groups withdrew from the convention after the adoption of resolutions critical of busing and the state of Israel.
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Mar
10
1972
Egypt
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Maya Angelou is asked to compose a poem for the inauguration of PresidentBill
Maya Angelou is asked to compose a poem for the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
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Dec
2
1992
South Africa banned from Olympic Games
South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.
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Aug
18
1964
Darkie Tooth Paste Changed
After 62 years, the Colgate-Palmolive Co. redesigned packaging for its Darkie tooth paste made and sold only in Asia. The nickname for Darkie tooth paste was renamed Darlie and the blackface sambo like character was changed into a non-racially offensive silhouette.
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Jan
28
1989
new democracy constitution in South Africa
Black and white leaders in South Africa approved the new democracy constitution that gave blacks the vote and ended white minority rule.
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Nov
18
1993
President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act
President Johnson signed a the 1968 Housing Act which outlawed discrimination in the sale, rental or leasing of housing. This bill also made it a crime to interfere with civil rights workers and to cross state lines to incite a riot.
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Apr
11
1968
(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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May
8
1879
President Carter signed Hawkins-Humphrey full
President Carter signed Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
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Oct
27
1978
1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Ken
1961: Andrew hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.
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Nov
10
1999
Government: Ohio state.
In Cleveland Ohio on November 13, 1967, Carl Stokes was the first black elected mayor of a major city. Carl Stokes, grandson of a slave, won the mayoral election over Seth Taft, grandson of President William H. Taft.
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Nov
13
1967
Patrick Francis Healy, first Black awarded Ph.D
Patrick Francis Healy, first Black awarded Ph.D. degree, passed final examination at Louvain in Belgium.
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Jul
26
1865
Progressive party convention
Progressive party convention, meeting in Philadelphia, nominated Henry Wallace for President. New Party made major effort to attract Blacks. Approximately 150 Black delegates and alternates attended the convention. The keynote speaker was Charles P. Howard, and attorney, publisher and former
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Jul
23
1948
The Notting Hill Riots (1958)
Amidst racial intolerance and competition over resources, the white working class of the Notting Hill area, London, UK, launched an attack against members of the black community on August the 30, 1958. Forced to arm themselves in defence, the confrontation lasted
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Bermuda
Bermuda is an archipelago of about 360 small islands, 580 mi (934 km) east of North Carolina. The largest is (Great) Bermuda, or Main Island. Explored by Juan de Bermúdez, a Spaniard, the islands were settled in 1612 by an offshoot of the Virginia Company. Bermuda became a Crown colony in
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Attorney General George Williams
Attorney General George Williams sent a telegram to Acting Governor Pinchback, saying that the Black politician was recognized by the President as the lawful executive of Louisiana.
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Dec
12
1872
(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”
In 1972 Barbara Charline Jordan became the first black member of Congress elected from Texas. Two years later this freshman Representative became a national figure because of her prominent role as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard
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1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of
1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of the National Urban Leagues Opportunity magazine and professor and President of Fisk University, born
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Jul
24
1893
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