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9/23/2007,
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WC Handy ~
publishes
Memphis Blues , the first blues song
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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WC Handy ~
(father of the Blues) born in Florence, AL
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7/29/2007,
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WEB Dubois ~
(activist) born
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7/29/2007,
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WEB Dubois ~
(activist) begins publication of the NAACP monthly magazine,
Crisis
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7/29/2007,
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WEB DuBois ~
becomes first Black member of the National Institute of Letters
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7/29/2007,
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WEB Dubois ~
(activist) founds the Niagra Movement
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7/29/2007,
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WEB Dubois ~
(activist) organizes the first Pan-African Congress
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7/29/2007,
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WH Richardson ~
(inventor) patents children's carriage
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Posted by:
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9/15/2007,
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White students ~
1,000 white students walk out of Gary, Indiana, public schools protesting integration
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Whitney Young ~
(an Executive Director of the National Urban League) born
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Willam Brown-Chappell ~
(pioneer aviator) born
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2869 times
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Posted by:
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8/19/2007,
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William "Count" Basie ~
(jazz pianist and musician) born in Red Bank, NJ
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3290 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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William "Count" Basie ~
(jazz pianist and musician) dies
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Posted by:
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2/16/2008,
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William "Smokey" Robinson ~
(singer and recording artist) is born Detroit, Michigan
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3166 times
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Posted by:
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8/6/2007,
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William Augustus Hinton ~
the discoverer of the "Hinton Test" for detecting syphilis dies.
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3127 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
William Dawson ~
elected Black Democratic Party vice presidential candidate
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4066 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
William Dawson ~
elected chairman of the House Committee on Government Operations
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3028 times
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Posted by:
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2/1/2008,
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William Ellisworth Artis ~
(artist) is born in Washington, North Carolina
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4188 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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William Foster ~
(Negro Baseball League player) born
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3299 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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William H Hastie ~
is inaugurated as the first Black governor of the Virgin Islands
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3801 times
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Posted by:
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10/14/2007,
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William Henry Hastie ~
becomes first Black man to sit on United States Circuit Court of Appeals
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3378 times
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7/29/2007,
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William Henry Lewis ~
(football player) named All-American
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3091 times
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Posted by:
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12/28/2008,
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William Hinton ~
(first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and developer of "Hinton Test" for diagnosing syphilis) born
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
William Leidesdorff ~
launches first steamboat in San Francisco Bay
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2872 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
William Lloyd Garrison ~
begins publishing
The Liberator , an abolitionist newspaper
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3178 times
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