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April 7, 2019 - April 13, 2019 (Week 15)
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1959: Lorraine Hansberry becomes first black playright New York Critics award
Frank Robinson named Cleveland Indians manager - 1975
Granville T. Woods patents apparatus for transmission of messages by electricity
Hank Aaron hits 715 home run - 1974
1816: African Methodist Episcopal Church formed
Congress overrides presidential veto of Civil Rights Bill - 1866
1816: Richard Allen becomes first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Chur
Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play major league baseball
1997: World largest African-American History museum opens in Detroit
1983: Harold Washington becomes first black mayor of Chicago
Confederates attack Fort Sumter - 1861
1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters Golf Tournament
Historian Carter G. Woodson, author of "The Miseducation of the Negro", died
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1959: Lorraine Hansberry becomes first black playright New York Drama Critics Circle Award (for a Raisin in the Sun).
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Frank Robinson named Cleveland Indians manager - 1975
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April 7, 1885 - Granville T. Woods patents apparatus for transmission of messages by electricity.
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April 8, 1974 - Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hits 715 home run, surpassing Babe Ruth as the game's all-time home-run leader.
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1816: African Methodist Episcopal(A.M.E.) Church formed.
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Congress overrides presidential veto of Civil Rights Bill - 1866
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1816: Richard Allen consecrated first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal(A.M.E.) Church
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Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play major league baseball.
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1997: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History Museum, the world's largest of it's kind, opens in Detroit.
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1983: Harold Washington becomes first African-American mayor of Chicago.
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Confederates attack Fort Sumter - 1861
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1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters Golf Tournamen
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April 13, 1950 - Historian Carter G. Woodson, author of "The Miseducation of the Negro", died.
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