Barbara C. Harris
On February 11, 1989, At The Age Of 58, The Reverend Barbara C. Harris Was Ordained As Bishop Of The Episcopal Diocese Of Massachusetts And Became The First Female Bishop Of The Episcopal Church.A Worldwide Religious Organizatio ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 8:07PM
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Alex Haley
Author, Alexander Murray Palmer Haley Died In Seattle, Washington, February 10, 1992, Of A Heart Attack. He Was Buried Beside His Childhood Home In Henning, Tennessee.
Born August 11, 1921, In Ithaca, New York, Haley Is Best Known ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 1:34AM
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
On This Day In 1872, Paul Dunbar Died At The Age Of 34, From Tuberculosis. His Home, Located At 219 Summit Street In Dayton, Remains Very Much The Same As It Was At The Time Of His Death In 1906.Born June 27, In Dayton, Ohio, ...
Posted Monday, February 8th 2010 at 5:45PM
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Debi Thomas
On February 8, 1986, 18 Year-Old Debi Thomas Won The Woman's Senior Singles U.S. Figure Skating Championship, Becoming The First Black American To Win The Title.In March Of That Same Year, She Defeated East Germany's Katrina Witt And ...
Posted Sunday, February 7th 2010 at 11:37PM
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Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith
On February 5, 1994, Ku Klux Klan Member, Byron De La Beckwith Was Finally Convicted For The Murder Of Civil Rights Leader, Medgar Evers, Who He Killed 31 Years Earlier.De La Beckwith Was Tried Twice For Murder ...
Posted Thursday, February 4th 2010 at 4:04PM
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Solourner Truth
Activist Isabella Baumfree, AKA Sojourner Truth, Was Commemorated On A U.S. Postage Stamp, On February 4, 1986.On The First Day Of June, 1843, She Set Out From New York, On A Historic Journey Across America.She Traveled The Country ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 9:56PM
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Jack Johnson
Boxer, Jack Johnson Won His First Title On February 3, 1903, Beating "Denver" Ed Martin Over 20 Rounds For The World Colored Heavyweight Championship.
His Efforts To Win The Full Title Were Blocked, As Then World Heavyweight Champi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 at 8:42PM
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James Weldon Johnson
On February 2, 1988, A Commemorative Stamp Of James Weldon Johnson Was
Issued By The United States Postal Service As Part Of Its Black
Heritage USA Series.
James Weldon Johnson Was Born June 17, 1871, In Jacksonville, F ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2010 at 8:21PM
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The Greensboro 4
On Monday, February 4, 1960, At 4:30PM, Four Freshmen From North Carolina Agricultural And Technical College (North Carolina A&T) -- Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil And Franklin McCain, Sat Down At The Lunch ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2010 at 1:16AM
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Viotette N. Anderson
On January 29, 1926, Violette Neatly Anderson Became The First Black Woman To Practice Law Before The United States Supreme Court.Anderson Graduated From The University Of Chicago Law School In 1920, When She Was Nearly 40 Y ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 4:54PM
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Matthew Henson
On January 28, 1944 Explorer, Matthew Alexander Henson Received A Congressional Medal For His Work On A History-Making Expedition With Admiral Robert E. Peary, In 1909.
Henson Was Born On August 8, 1866, In Charles County, MD. ...
Posted Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 7:04PM
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Mahalia Jackson
On January 27, 1972, The Woman Known As The
"Queen Of Gospel Song," Died At Age 60, In Evergreen Park, Illinois. Mahalia Jackson Was Gospel Musc's First International Superstar.
Reared In New Orleans, Louisiana In The Early 1 ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 9:57PM
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Angela Davis
Angela Davis Was Born January 26, 1944, In Birmingham, Alabama.
On June 5, 1972, Angela Davis Was Acquitted Of Complicity In A Plot To Free Three San Quintin Prisoners From A Marin County, California Courthouse.
During The Escap ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 6:42PM
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Constance Baker Motley
On January 25, 1966, Constance Baker Motley Became America's First Black Female Federal Judge, After Being Appointed To The U.S. District Court For Southern New York, By President Lyndon B. Johnson.Motley Also Made Histo ...
Posted Sunday, January 24th 2010 at 2:53PM
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Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke, The Man Many Consider The Greatest Soul Singer Ever, And One Of The Founders Of The Soul Music Genre, Was Born January 22, 1931, In Clarksdale Mississippi. His Family Moved To Chicago In 1933.
Cooke Began Singing Gospel A ...
Posted Thursday, January 21st 2010 at 7:46PM
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Jackie Wilson
On September 29, 1975, While Performing At The Latin Casino In Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Jackie Wilson Suffered A Heart Attack. He Would Linger In A Brain-Dead State For The Next Nine Years He Died January 21, 1984, In Mount Holly, Ne ...
Posted Wednesday, January 20th 2010 at 8:39PM
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Barack Obama Sworn In As The 44th And First African American President
On January 20, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama Was Sworn In As The 44th And First African American President Of The United States Of America.
On June 3, 2008, With 2,118 Deleg ...
Posted Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 8:22PM
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John H. Johnson
John Harold Johnson, Founder Of The Johnson Publishing Company, Was Born January 19, 1918, In Arkansas City, Arkansas.
Johnson's Family Moved To Chicago During The 1930s And Where He Attended DuSable High School, The Universit ...
Posted Monday, January 18th 2010 at 5:35PM
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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Was Born January 18, 1856.
Dr. Williams Made Medical History On July 9, 1893, When He Performed The First Successful Open Heart Surgery On Record. He Operated On James Cornish, A Young Black M ...
Posted Sunday, January 17th 2010 at 10:57PM
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Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15 Marks The 8Ist Birthday Of America's Most Recognized Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please CLICK HERE Watch The 47-Minute Documentary On Dr. King's Life And Death.
"In Order F ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 8:15PM
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Julian Bond
Civil Rights Activist And Politician, Horace Julian Bond, Was Born, January 14, 1940, In Nashville, Tennessee.His Family Moved To Pennsylvania When He Was Five, After Bond's Father, Horace M. Bond, Accepted A Position As Lincoln Univ ...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 8:15PM
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Robert C. Weaver
On January 13, 1964, Dr Robert C. Weaver Became The First Black American In History To Serve In A Presidential Cabinet When He Was Appointed By President Lyndon B. Johnson To Head The Newly Created Department Of Housing And Urba ...
Posted Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at 9:06PM
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James L. Farmer, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist, James Leonard Farmer, Jr. Was Born January 12, 1920,
In Marshall, Texas.
Known As One Of The Civil Rights Movement's "Big 4," -- Along With Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins (Chief Of The NAACP) ...
Posted Monday, January 11th 2010 at 8:39PM
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Henry Aaron
On January 11. 1976, Hall Of Fame Baseball Player, Henry "Hank" Aaron, Received The 60th Annual NAACP Spingarn Medal For His Accomplishments On And Off The Baseball Diamond.In Atlanta Stadium, On April 8, 1974, At 9:07 PM, Hank A ...
Posted Sunday, January 10th 2010 at 3:20PM
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Reconstruction Congress
On January 8, 1867, During The First Year Of The Reconstruction Era,
Congress Passed A Bill To Allow Blacks In Washington, DC To Vote, Despite A Veto By President Andrew Jackson.By March, A Series Of Congressional Bills ...
Posted Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 11:01PM
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