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9/9/2007,
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Stephen Bantu Biko ~
(South African freedom-fighter) brutally murdered
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9/9/2007,
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Stephen Biko ~
(leader of the Black Consciousness Movement In South Africa) arrested
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7/29/2007,
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Sterling Brown ~
(poet) dies
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7/29/2007,
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Stevie Wonder ~
(singer and composer) born
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1/4/2011,
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Stokley Carmichael ~
(civil rights activist) launches "Black Power" movement
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7/29/2007,
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Sugar Ray Leonard ~
(boxer) born
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7/29/2007,
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Sugar Ray Robinson ~
(middleweight boxing champion) born
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7/29/2007,
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T Elkins ~
patents the refrigerating apparatus
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8/10/2007,
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Thaddeus Stevens ~
(architect of the Radical Reconstruction program) dies
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1/19/2008,
in category "People"
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Thelma Joyce White ~
(civil-rights activist) is born in Marlin, Texas
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7/29/2007,
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Thelonious Monk ~
(jazz pianist) dies
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4127 times
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7/29/2007,
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Theo Wright ~
becomes the first Black recipient of a Theology Degree in the US
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7/29/2007,
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Theodore "Georgia Deacon" Flowers ~
becomes first Black middle-weight boxing champion
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7/29/2007,
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Theodore Lawless ~
(medicine pioner) born
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7/29/2007,
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Thomas "Fats" Waller ~
(jazz pianist and composer) born
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12/10/2007,
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Thomas "Fats" Waller ~
(jazz musician) dies in Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted by:
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9/7/2007,
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Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns ~
becomes the first Black man to win boxing titles in five different weight classes
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7/29/2007,
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Thomas Bradley ~
elected mayor of Los Angeles at a time when Blacks represented only 15% of the LA electorate, becoming one of the first ...
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7/29/2007,
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Thomas Dorsey ~
(the Father of Gospel Music) born in Villa Rica, GA
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7/29/2007,
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Thomas Ezekiel Miller ~
(congressman) born
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3625 times
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7/29/2007,
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Thomas J Martin ~
patents the fire extinguisher
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7/29/2007,
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Thomas Jennings ~
becomes the fist Black American to receive a patent, for a dry-cleaning process
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3492 times
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7/29/2007,
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Thurgood Marshall ~
(first Black Supreme Court Justice) born
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3064 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
Thurgood Marshall ~
appointed first Black solicitor general of the US
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3384 times
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7/29/2007,
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On this date:
Thurgood Marshall ~
sworn in as first Black Supreme Court Justice
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3324 times
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