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JANUARY
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On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipa
lion Proclamation freeing slaves in the United States
Cameroon (Africa) gained its independence from France in 1960
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William Lloyd Garrison published the first edition of the abolitionist
newspaper, the Liberator, in Boston, Mass in 1831
Erroll Garner, pianist and composer, died 1977
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Dr. Charles Drew, discoverer of blood plasma, born in 1804 Drew orga
mzed blood banks in the United States and England during World
War II
William Tucker, first black child born in America was baptized in James
town in 1624
5
Constance Baker Motley became the first black female appointed as a
federal judge, 1966
In 1948 Executive Order 998 ending segregation in US Armed Forces
was signed by President Harry Truman.
1966 Marian Anderson was the first black person to appear with the
Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Masked Ball
Howard Swanson, composer, receiver! New York Critics Award in 1952
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Fannie M. Jackson Coppin (1836 1913) was born She was a pioneer
educator and the first black woman college graduate in America
10
Countee Cullen, poet and writer, died 1946
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Dolly Adams, |«zz pianist, was born in 1904
12
1971 Congressional Black Caucus was organized
Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in 1957
James Farmer founder of C O R E
was born in Texas in ,920
13
Dr Robert Weaver became the first blai k to serve in a Presidential
Cabinet when named Secretary of HUD in 1966 by President Lyndon
Johnson.
Free U S. Blacks settle m Liberia, Africa, 1822
5
Mkwawa sixteenth century African king renowned for his power and
knowledge was given honor by Article 246 of the Treaty of Versailles
which on this day demanded that Germany return his treasured re
mains to Africa
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1920 First organized emigration of US blacks back to Africa, from
New York to Sierra Leone
Congressman Waiter E. Fauntroy, delegate from the District of Colum­
bia. born in 1933
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Eubie Blake, composer, born 1883
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar, poet, died 1906
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I eontyne Price world acclaimed opeia singer, born 1927in Mississippi
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General Daniel 'Chappie'' James, first four star black general in the
US Armed Forces, was born in 1920, Pensacola, Florida
1977 Clifford Alexander, Jr., was confirmed as first Black Secretary
of the Army.
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Abraham Lincoln, Emancipator and 16th President of the United
States was bom in 1809
1793 Fugitive Slave Ac, passed on this day
1909 The N A A C P was founded in New York by W E B Dubois.
William E Walling, Mary White Ovington and Dr. Henry Moskowita
Will Marion Cook, composer and conductor, born 1869
Eartha Kitt, singer, entertainer, born 1928
Richard Barthe, sculptor, born 1901
George Washington Carver, (1861 19431 world famous agricultural
chemist died on this day Carver Day was established by an Act of Con
gross in recognition of his contributions which included making ink,
synthetic rubber, flour and metal polish from natural products such as
peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans.
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Frederick Douglass 11817 1895) abolitionist, freedom fighter, scholar
and U S Minister to Haiti 11898 911 was born on this day in Tuckahoe,
Maryland
Nat "King" Cole, singer and jazz pianist, died on this day in 1965
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co fo u n d e r o f th e N A A C P and Pan A fric a n C o n g re s s , w a s b o rn on
this d a y ,868
John Oliver Killens, novelist born ,916
Mabel Smith blues singer, died 1924
Gambia (Africa) won its indenpendence from Britian in 1965
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Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (1929 1968). civil rights leader and
Nobel Peace Prize recipient was born on this day in Atlanta
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Continental Congress accepts enlistment of free negros, 1776
Paul Cuffee, colonizer, born 1759
16 1967 Lucius D. Anderson sworn in as the firs, black sheriff in the
South in the 20th Century, Macon County, Alabama
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,952 Huey P Newton, black civil rights activist and co founder of
Black Panther Party, born on this day in Monroe. Louisiana
Bessie Smith made firs, record for Columbia Records in 1923
Muhammad All born in Louisville. Kentucky 1942
Dr Daniel Hale Williams, surgeon, born in ,858
On this day in 1867, Congress enacted legislation granting suffrage to
ex slaves in the District of Columbia
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Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865
which upon ratification abolished slavery in the United States
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Jackie Robinson, born on this day in ,919, was ttie first black to break
the racial barrier in organized professional sports in America.
Whitney Young, internationally renowned civil rights leader and builder
of the National Urban League, was born on this day in 1921
Garet, A Morgan invented the traffic light and another life saving
device, the gas mask
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In ,977 ROOTS, adaptation of Alex Haley's historical novel, w.is firs,
shown on national television, surpassing all previous viewing records
Paul Robeson, athlete, lawyer, singer died in Philadelphia in 1976
First Pan African Congress me, in Pans, France in 1919 organized by
W E B Dubois
In 1853, the firs, black YMCA was started in Washington, D C.,
(firs, black YWCA was no, chartered until 1893 in Dayton, Ohio,
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Sidney Poitier, firs, black actor to win an Oscar (1963 Lillies of the
Field! was born on this day in Miami, Florida in 1927.
Birthday of George Washington, first President of the United States
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El Haji Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm XI assassinated in New York City,
1965
Barbara Jordan, firs, black female from the South since recons,rue
tion, elected to the U S. House of Representatives, 1972; elected to
the Texas Senate in 1966 was bom on this day in Houston in 1930
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Or W E B Dubois (1868 1963), author, editor, scholar, co founder
of the NAACP and Pan African Congress, was born on this day 1868
in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Congressman Louis Stokes, (b. 1925,
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1901 George H White of North Carolina, the last black elected to
Congress during the reconstruction era, made his final address before
Congress
B L A C K H IS T O R Y M O N T H
,960
Black college students began the age of sit ms at a Wool
worth's lunch counter in Greensboro. North Carolina
Langston Hughes 11902 19671, noted author and poet of the Harlem
Renaissance, was bom in Joplin. Missoun
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Laura Waring, portrait painter and illustrator, died in 1948
Charles Henry Turner, biologist, from 1867
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