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On this day in 1960, four freshmen at North Carolina A & T University initiated the Sit-in Movement of the Civil Rights Struggles. Ezell...
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On this day in 1897, Alfred L. Cralle invented the ice cream scooper while working in Pittsburgh, PA. President Harry S. Truman sent a...
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Marlon Troy Riggs, a filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist, was born on this day in 1957. His documentary, Ethnic Notions,...
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, Civil Rights activist whose actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, was born on this day in 1913...
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On this day in 1950 Natalie Cole, singer and daughter of music legend Nat King Cole was born in Los Angeles, California. On this day in...
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The Jail-In Movement started on this day in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina when nine young Blacks insisted on a jail term as opposed...
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Dr. Carter G. Woodson started the first Negro History Week to “extend and deepen the study and scholarship on Black History” on this day...
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Gary Wayne Coleman, comedian, actor, and writer, was born on this day in 1968 in Zion, Illinois. He a major child start of television in...
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On this day in 1995, astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr, became the first African American to complete a spacewalk. Alice Malsenior...
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Singer Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on this day in 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She is most known for her many hit...
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is finally released from prison after twenty-seven years in prison on this day in 1990. It was the beginning of...
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For a President Lincoln Birthday activity on this day in 1900, James Weldon Johnson, lawyer, poet, novelist and activist, wrote the...
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Henry Highland Garnet was an abolitionist, minister, educator, and speaker who escaped slavery and became a fierce proponent of militant...
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Bishop Richard Allen, a minister, educator, writer, builder, and pacesetter, was born on this day in 1760 ‘near Dover, Delaware’. He...
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Henry Jay Lewis, child prodigy, was on this day in 1968 named the Conductor and Musical Director of the New Jersey Symphony. He was the...
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Tracy Lauren Marrow, aka Ice-T, was born on this day in 1958 in Newark, New Jersey.
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Mary Frances Berry, historian, lawyer, writer, activist, and professor was born on this day in 1938 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the...
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Audre Geraldine Lorde, writer, poet, feminist, womanist, librarian, activist, was born on this day in 1934 in Harlem, New York. Andre...
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The Pan-African Congress was held beginning on this day in 1919 to coincide with the Peace talks in Paris after World War I. W.E.B....
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Sidney Poitier, consummate actor, film director, and diplomat, was born on this day in 1927 in Miami, Florida. He is the first Black man...
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