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View this eventCharles Drew, developer of Blood Plasma, dies 1950
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View this event1984: Georgetown coach John Thompson becomes first black coach to win NCAA baske
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View this eventMartin Luther King assassinated - 1968
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View this eventWashington DC outlaws segregation in restaurants
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View this eventMatthew A. Henson reaches the North Pole - 1909
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View this event1959: Lorraine Hansberry becomes first black playright New York Critics award
View this eventFrank Robinson named Cleveland Indians manager - 1975
View this eventGranville T. Woods patents apparatus for transmission of messages by electricity
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View this eventHank Aaron hits 715 home run - 1974
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View this event1816: African Methodist Episcopal Church formed
View this eventCongress overrides presidential veto of Civil Rights Bill - 1866
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View this event1816: Richard Allen becomes first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Chur
View this eventJackie Robinson becomes first African American to play major league baseball
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View this event1997: World largest African-American History museum opens in Detroit
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View this event1983: Harold Washington becomes first black mayor of Chicago
View this eventConfederates attack Fort Sumter - 1861
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View this event1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters Golf Tournament
View this eventHistorian Carter G. Woodson, author of "The Miseducation of the Negro", died
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View this event1775: First abolitionist society in U.S. founded
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View this eventSidney Poitier becomes first Black to win Academy Award for Best Actor - 1964
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View this eventSlavery abolished in the District of Columbia - 1862
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View this event1983: Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple
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View this eventIndians and African Americans defeated at the battle of Sewanee - 1818
View this eventMore than 200 Black Union troops massacred by Confederate forces - 1864
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View this event1972: Major Davidson becomes first black to lead an army division
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View this event2010: Dorothy Height dies
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View this eventAfrican explorers visit St. Augustine, Florida - 1565
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View this event1856: Granville T. Woods inventor of the steam boiler born
View this eventClatonia Joaquin Dorticus patents photographic print wash - 1895
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View this eventUnited Negro College Fund Incorporated - 1944
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View this event1918: Ella Fitzgerald born
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View this eventSarah Boone patents ironing board - 1888
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View this eventSierra Leone attains independence - 1961
View this eventVincent Porter becomes first African American certified in plastic surgery - 196
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View this event2009: Sojourner Truth first black woman to have a memorial in U.S. Capitol
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View this event1899: Duke Ellington born
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View this eventFreedman's Bureau established - 1865
            
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