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Posted by:
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10/1/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
"Chubby Checker" ~
(entertainer) Earnest Evans is born. He popularized "The Twist."
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Posted by:
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10/21/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
"Pelé" Edson Arantes do Nascimento ~
(African-Brazilian soccer player) is born in Três Corações, Brazil
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Miles ~
patents the elevator
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5410 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Philip Randolph ~
(activist and labor leader) born
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Posted by:
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8/19/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Philip Randolph ~
organizes the Sleeping Car Porter's Union
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7232 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A Philip Randolph ~
(activist and labor leader) dies
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4855 times
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Posted by:
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8/6/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
A. W. Wilson ~
the minister and activist, whose church (Holt Street Baptist) helped fuel the 1955 civil rights protests, dies at age 87 ...
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Abraham Lincoln ~
reads the first draft of Emancipation Proclamation to the cabinet
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Abraham Lincoln ~
signs bill providing schools for Black children
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Posted by:
braithwaite, on
8/6/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Absalom Jones ~
ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church
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5435 times
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Posted by:
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2/1/2008,
in category "People"
On this date:
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher ~
(activist and lawyer) is born in Chickasha, Oklahoma
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5145 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr ~
(congressman) born
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Posted by:
bayshob, on
7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr ~
(activist and chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor) denied his congressional seat
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr ~
(activist and politician) elected congressman from Harlem
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr ~
(activist) born
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4567 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
AJ Burr ~
patents the lawn mower
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4546 times
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Posted by:
molly, on
8/11/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alan Keyes ~
leading Black in the Republican Party was born
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3899 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alex Haley ~
(author of
Roots ) dies
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5507 times
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Posted by:
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8/5/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alex Haley ~
(author of
Roots ) born
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4367 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alex Haley ~
wins Pulitzer Prize for
Roots
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4282 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alice H Parker ~
patents the gas heating furnace
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7259 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alice Walker ~
(author of
The Color Purple ) born
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5395 times
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Posted by:
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3/19/2008,
in category "People"
On this date:
Allan Rohan Crite ~
(painter) born
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4252 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Alrutheus A Taylor ~
(teacher and historian) born
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4219 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Althea Gibson ~
(first Black Wimbeldon champion) born in South Carolina
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4282 times
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