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EVENT
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All
Saints Day
New
York City opened first free school for African Americans - 1787
The
first issue of Ebony magazine is published - 1945
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2
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Maggie
Walker founded 2 St. Luke Penny Savings Bank - 1903
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3
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Tennessee
elected Harold Ford to Congress - 1974 |
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4
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Manhattan
elected Hulan Jack to Bourough President - 1953
Carol
Moseley Braun is the first African American elected to the U.S.
Senate - 1992
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5
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Shirley
Chisholm is the first African American Woman elected to the U.S.
Congress - 1968
Black
Caucus upped to 17 - 1974
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6
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Louisville
housing rights was upheld by the Supreme Court - 1919
Coleman
Young is the first African American elected mayor of Detroit -
1973
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7
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The
Supreme Court outlawed recreational facility segregation - 1955
Douglas
Wilder became first African American elected as governor, in an
election held on November 7.
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8
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Massachusetts named Edward W. Brooke to the U.S. Senate - 1966 |
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9
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Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806, was an astronomer and an inventor.
Melba
Pattillo Beals, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas,
Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Minnijean Brown Trickey,
Gloria Ray Karlmark, and Thelma Mothershed-Wair receive the Congressional
Gold Medal on November 9th —They were known as 'The Little
Rock Nine' who integrated Little Rock's Central High School (amid
bitter controversy) 3 years after Brown vs. Board of Education
of Topeka, Kansas - 1999
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10
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Present
Kennedy appointed Andrew Hatcher as Associate Press Secretary
- 1961
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11
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Veterans
Day
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor's 'Hiawatha Trilogy' - 1898
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12
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The
National Negro Opera Company is established - 1941
New
Orleans elected Ernest N. Morial mayor - 1977
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13
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The
first anti-slavery political party is established - 1839
Pioneer
surgeon Dr. Daniel Williams becomes a member of the American College
of Surgeons - 1913
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14
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A
federal court ordered the New Orleans school system to desegregate,
making Ruby Nell Bridges the first African-American to attend
the elementary school. This six-year-old literally walked into
William Frantz Elementary School and into history - 1960
1963
Birmingham church bombing trial - 1977
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15
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Start of the AME Church- 1787
African
American feminist Sarah Jane Woodson's birthday - 1825
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16
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Father
of the blues, William Christopher Handy - 1873-1958 |
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17
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Henrique
Dias defeated the Dutch forces - 1636 |
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18
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Abolitionist
Sojourner Truth, 1797-1885, "A Pilgrim of Freedom". Her
given name was Isabella Bomefree |
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19
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National
Baseball League named Roy Campanella as 1953 MVP |
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20
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Discrimination
outlawed in federally aided housing - 1962 |
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21
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Shaw University opened in North Carolina - 1865 |
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22
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Yale
football team named Levi Jackson captain - 1948 |
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23
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Cigarette
roller patented by J.A. Sweeting - 1897 |
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24
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Scott
Joplin, Originator of Ragtime Music, birthday - 1868
Cleveland
Brown's Jim Brown set record for yards gained- 1957
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25
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Singer,
Tina Turner's birthday - 1941
Segregation
outlawed in interstate travel by ICC - 1955
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26
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Death of Sojourner Truth - 1885 |
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27
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Rock
musician legend, Jimi Hendrix's birthday - 1942
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28
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African
Republics of Chad, Congo and Mauritania gain autonomy with the
French Union and the first step toward independence - 1958
Ernie
Davis is the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy
- 1961
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29
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First issue of the "Chicago Defender" published - 1905
Politician,
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s birthday - 1908
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30
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Filmmaker,
Gordon Parks' birthday - 1912
368th
African American Infantry Regiment praised - 1918
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