February 25 1987, Portland Observer Paq
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slaves
Allensworth Township established in California for former
14
1883
Corujress passed the Civil Rights A ct. creating the U S
Commission on Civil Rights
15
1935
Vernon E Jordan, former President o f the National Urban
League, was born in Atlanta. Georgia
1824
Freed American slaves established Liberia on the West Coast
of America
4
Mv,
Three civil rights workers reported missing since June were
found buried in Mississippi
5
James H Cone writer on Black power and Black theology was born
1965
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Bill
7
,904
Di Ralph Bunche 1,904 197,1 United Nations representative
and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in ,950 was born
8
1866
M a tth e w A Henson
Ernest E Just, biologist, was born
16
1922
Louis Lomas author, first Black TV Newscaster 1959 on
station W NEW TV. New York
,7
1887
Marcus Garvey founder of the Unite«, Negro Im provement
Association and the back to A frica movement, was born
20
1619
Firs, Black slaves brought by Die Dutch to the Colony of
Jamestown
Congressman W illiam Gray III. (b 19411
21
1904
(W illiam ) Count Basie. iazz pianist big band and orchestra
leader born
1831
Nat Turner led a slave revold a, Southam pton, Virginia
23
1900
The National Business League was organized in Boston
M assachusetts
24
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f isk University form ally established in Nashville Tennessee
1950
Edith Sampson firs, black delegate to Unite«, Nations ap
pointed by President Harry S Truman
25
1908
28
19t>3
25O 000 p e iso n M a rch on W a sh in g to n
R ustin and led by M a rtin L u ther K ing Jr
29
, 957
1920
first to reach the North Pole
10
196,
Publisher,
Black Like Me docum entary account o f Jo h n H
G riffin (1920 19801, a w hite man traveled the southern states disguise«
as a black man
11
1777
Black soldiers Brazailai Lew and Sanford Talbert participate«!
in the Battle of Brandywine
1959
Edward (Duke) Ellington, composer m usician H i-w as
awarded a Spmgarn Medal on this day by the N AA C P in recoym tioi
of his outstanding musical achievements
12
,977
Stephen Biko. black Sou,ft A frican activist and anti apartheid
leader, succurntx-d to injuries inflicted while incarcerated in a S ou,I
African tail
Jesse Owens, Olympic star. Ib ,913,
National A ssoi it io n o f C olored Nurses found«-«,
organ ized by Bayard
Congress passed the first Civil R ights A i t sun e ,875
Charlie Y a rd bird' Parker, |«izz in n o va to r and co m p o se r. w .is
b o rn m Kansas C ity Kansas
30
1901
Hoy W ilkin s
w as tn irn
31
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N A A C P N alm nal D irector
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C ivil H ig fits le a d e r
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SEPTEMBER
A u g u s t 9 1936 Jesse O w e n s (R ig h t), a th le te
a t th e B e rlin O ly m p ic s
9
1936
Jesse Owens, athlete
Olympics
1
1822
3
Fr«-de-s «. D ouglass esi aped fro m slavery
4
1848
Lew is H Latim er in ve n to r was b o rn He stu d ie d all phases o f
elect! i ity and develop«-«, an improve«, iru andesi en, I.im p and lam p
sin ke,
He supervised in sta lla tio n o f electrn lig h ts in New York and
w in s fo u r G old m e d .,i .
H iram H Revels, U S B lai k Senator was born
,838
A u g u s t 21
P hiladelphia
wins four Golt, Medals at the Bi"
10
Congressman George W Crockett Jr
11
1873
J Rosamond Johnson (1873 19541 author actor, ind
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composer (w ith his brother James W eldon Johnson o, I ift Every
Voice and S in g "), born in Jacksonville, Florida
1924
Carl T Rowan, journalist was born
5
1877
B eniam in
C herokee C ounty
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8
1915
Pa,> S in g le to n , an esc.iped slave, led 400 slaves to
Kansas w h ere they fo u n d e d S in g le to n s c o u n ty
13
lb 1909I
ndependem e day for S w a zila nd
1906
Brownsville A ffa ir'
Three companies if Blai k-. lis h n i,,r
ably discharged by President Thoodore Roosevelt
1893
Baltimore A fro American publishes its fust issue
lu g b a n d an«, oi
1850
In ,850 Blai k fur tradr-i and i-«plou-i Jam es P Be« k w o u rth
disc o y e ie d a pass th ro u g h the Sierra Nevada M o u n ta in s leading to t,n
P acific Ocean
It w as later nam ed after him . Be« k w o u rth Pass
ho m e o f th e B a n tu people
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President
F D
R oosevelt,
s ig n e d
Seim rive S ervice A c ,
allow ing Blacks Io enter all bran« lie s of th e U S M ilita ry Service
As-. . a ,io n For N egro I if«- am , H isto ry fo u n d e d in C m ago by
Carter G W oodson
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Bla k in ve n to r G ranville T W o o d s received a pa tent tor steam
15
1852
Birth o f Edward A Bom het first Black person to «-arn a Ph I)
in the U S and firs, Blai k member of Ptu Beta Kappa
16
1963
fo u r yo u n g bla« k girls died in b o m b in g o l ,6 ,h S i
C h urch B in n in g ),a m , A labam a
t>oil«-r furnai ••
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1904 ( W illia m ) C o u n t B a s ie ja z z ,m in is ,
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R h a u l W rig h t ‘ 1908 I 960- n o te d a u th o r o f
Hoy
was born
N ative Son
and
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Dr. Percy Julian
Born in dire poverty in a slave hut.
Helped create and
Became a manual worker at the
age of nine.
produce low cost
Cortisone, a modern
Selected to develop
wonder drug
Tuskegee Institute
used to treat
from 1881-1915.
many diseases.
An outstanding leader
• Developed an inexpensive drug to
treat Glaucoma, an eye disease. This
drug is used around the world.
in education.
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