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On this date in 1919, we celebrate the birth of Elizabeth Koontz, an African American educator and politician. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz was born in Salisbury, N.C., and attended that city’s public school system. She graduated from Livingstone College in 1938. Koontz attained her Masters Degree from

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James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born

James Cameron

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Aug

1930

Hiram R.Revels First Speech

Hiram R. Revels made his first speech in the Senate, opposing the readmission of Georgia without adequate safeguards for Black citizens. This was the first official speech by a Black in Congress.

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Mar

1869

Congress Adopts 15th Amendmant

Congress adopted the 15th constitutional amendment, making it illegal for the US or any single government to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

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Feb

1869

Eleanor Holmes

Eleanor Holmes (later Eleanor Norton) is born in Washington, DC. A graduate of the Yale University School of Law, Norton will become chairperson of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and a Georgetown University law professor before being elected a non-voting delegate to Congress

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Jun

1937

Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African Amer

Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African American congressman from the state of Ohio. He will serve more than ten terms in Congress.

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Jan

1969

Julian Bond, communications director of the

Julian Bond, communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, denied seat in Georgia House of Representatives because of his opposition to Vietnam War.

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Jan

1966

Congress of Racial Equality announced that its

Congress of Racial Equality announced that its national director, James Farmer, would resign on March 1.

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Dec

1965

Floyd B

Floyd B. McKissick, North Carolina attorney, named national director of Congress of Racial Equality.

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Jan

1966

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress

Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress from Illinois First Congressional District (Chicago). He was the first congressman from the North and the first Black in Congress since the departure of George H. White in 1901.

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Nov

1928

Congressman William Gray

Congressman William Gray is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives, the highest ranking leadership position ever held by an African American in Congress.

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Jun

1989

Department of Labor said some 500,000 Blacks had

Department of Labor said some 500,000 Blacks had left the South in the preceding twelve months.

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Oct

1923

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

1881

Antislavery petition from free Blacks

Antislavery petition from free Blacks of Philadelphia presented to Congress.

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Jan

1800

1964 After 12 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of

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Feb

1964

Congress Fight For Blacks Freedom

Congress authorized president to accept Blacks for military service. Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, which freed the slaves of all rebels.

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Jul

1862

1907 Civil rights activist and politician Grace Towns Hamilton was born inAt

1907 Civil rights activist and politician Grace Towns Hamilton was born in

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Feb

1907

Nash, Charles Edmund (1844-1913)

Republican Charles Edmund Nash served in the 44th Congress as Louisiana’s only black representative. Nash was born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1844. Before his time in Congress Nash attended common schools, was a bricklayer in New Orleans, and had enlisted as a private

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May

1844

Congress forbade Union officers/soldiers

Congress forbade Union officers and soldiers to aid in the capture and return of fugitive slaves, ending what one historian called the military slave hunt.

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Mar

1862

Hall, Katie Beatrice (1938-2012)

Democratic representative Katie Hall was elected to the United States Congress in 1983. Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi in 1938, she attended Mississippi Valley State University and Indiana University before teaching in the public schools of Gary Indiana. Hall was elected to the

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Feb

2012

What Comes Naturally: The Loving v. Virginia Case in Historical Perspective

When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter decided to get married in June 1958, laws banning interracial marriage had been in effect for nearly three centuries. The colonies of Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts had banned intermarriage in 1664, 1691, and 1705. After the American Revolution, states

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Jun

1967

Parren James Mitchell

Parren James Mitchell, first African American elected to Congress from Maryland, born

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Apr

1922

Riot, University of Georgia

Riot, University of Georgia. Two Black students Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were suspended but a federal court ordered them reinstated. They returned to classes on January 16.

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Jan

1961

Congress helped Blacks in the military

Congress passed bill equalizing pay, arms, equipment and medical services of Black troops.

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Jun

1864

colored state park (circa 1948-1958)

During a brief time after WWII(1948-1958), all southern states had colored state parks that were far inferior to white parks, but served as recreation areas to the black population. In Georgia, George Washington Carver State park, on Lake Allatoona just North of Acworth, was Built by Mr. John Loyd

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Jan

1948

Andrew Young resigned under pressure

Andrew Young resigned under pressure as UN ambassador after unauthorized meeting with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Resignation created a storm of controversy and divided the Black and Jewish communities.

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Aug

1979

Henry McNeal Turner Born

Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age

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Feb

1834

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