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8/5/2007,
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AP Abourne ~
(inventor) awarded patent for refining coconut oil
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8/5/2007,
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Bill Cosby ~
(entertainer) receives an Emmy Award for "I Spy"
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10/17/2007,
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Bishop Desmond Tutu ~
(South African activist) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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8/5/2007,
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Carter G Woodson ~
(the father of Black history) awarded Spingarn Medal
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12/1/2007,
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Charles Johnson ~
is honored with the "National Book Award" for his fictional book, Middle Passage
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10/6/2007,
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Derek Walcott ~
becomes the first Black person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
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8/5/2007,
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Dorie Miller ~
(a messman) awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic deeds at Pearl Harbor
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9/15/2007,
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Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche ~
becomes first Black Nobel Peace Prize winner
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8/5/2007,
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EM Bannister ~
(African painter) exhibits
Under The Oaks at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelpha and is awarded the gold med ...
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11/13/2007,
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Gloria Naylor ~
(writer) wins the "Lillian Smith Award" for Mama Day, her novel
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8/5/2007,
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Gwendolyn Brooks ~
becomes the first Black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize, for Annie Allen
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8/5/2007,
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Gwendolyn Brooks ~
(poet and first Black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize) born
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1/19/2008,
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Hank Aaron ~
(baseball player) receives the 60th NAACP Spingarn Medal
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9/15/2007,
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Jackie Robinson ~
is named National League "Rookie of the Year"
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12/16/2007,
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Koffi Atta Annan ~
becomes the first Black Secretary General for the United Nations
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2/16/2008,
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Lauryn Hill ~
(R&B and hip hop singer) wins five Grammy Awards, the most a woman had ever received
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8/5/2007,
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Leontyne Price ~
(world renowed opera singer) is awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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1/4/2011,
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Martin Luther King Jr ~
(activist and civil rights leader) awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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8/5/2007,
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Michael Jackson ~
(musician) wins eight grammy awards
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8/5/2007,
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Pvt Milton L Olive III ~
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously
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8/5/2007,
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Ralph J Bunche ~
becomes the first Black person awarded a Nobel Peace Prize
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9/9/2007,
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Roots the mini-series ~
won 9 awards at the 19th Annual Emmys
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11/13/2007,
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Rosa Parks ~
is honored by the Wonder Woman Foundation with the first "Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award"
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8/5/2007,
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Roy deCarava ~
(first Black American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship) born
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8/5/2007,
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos ~
While being awarded the gold and bronze medals, respectively, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raise their gloved fists on ...
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