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9/15/2007,
in category "People"
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Ray Charles ~
(singer, composer, and musician) is born in Albany, Georgia
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Posted by:
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12/10/2007,
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Raymond R. Patterson ~
(writer, poet, and professor) is born in Harlem, New York
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2/16/2008,
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Rebecca Lee Crumpler ~
becomes the first Black woman to earn a medical degree by graduating from the New England Female Medical College
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Red Foxx ~
(entertainer) born
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Reggie Jackson ~
(baseball player) born
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Posted by:
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12/1/2007,
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Reginald Lewis ~
(businessman) is born in Baltimore, Maryland
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Posted by:
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10/7/2007,
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Rev Jesse Jackson ~
(activist and 1988 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination) born
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Rev Jesse Jackson ~
organizes Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity)
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Rev Jesse Jackson ~
secures the release of pilot Robert Goodman, shot down over Damascus, Syria
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Posted by:
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8/26/2007,
in category "People"
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Rex Goreleigh ~
(painter) was born in Peullyn, Pennsylvania
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Allen ~
founded the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Allen ~
(AME Chruch Bishop) dies
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Allen ~
chairs the first National Negro Convention in Philadelphia
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
Richard Arrington ~
elected first Black mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Pryor ~
(comedian and activist) born
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Pryor ~
(comedian and activist) dies
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3740 times
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Posted by:
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9/7/2007,
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Richard Wright ~
(author) born in Roxie, Mississippi. Wrote Native Son and Black Boy
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Wright ~
wins the Spingarn Medal for
Native Son
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Richard Wright ~
(author of
Native Son and
Black Boy ) dies
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2698 times
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Posted by:
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8/26/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Rita Dove ~
(poet) born in Akron, Ohio
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2731 times
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Posted by:
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8/6/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Robert Brown Elliot ~
the black politician, lawyer, and officer of the military dies.
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3494 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Robert C. Weaver ~
becomes first Black presidential cabinet member when sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs under the Johnso ...
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2958 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
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Robert H Lawerence ~
(named the first Black astronaut) dies in a plane crash before his mission
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3102 times
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Posted by:
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8/12/2007,
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Robert L. Johnson ~
(blues singer) dies
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3245 times
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Posted by:
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7/29/2007,
in category "People"
On this date:
Robert Lee Van ~
(publisher) born
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2818 times
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