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April 10, 2022    -    April 16, 2022 (Week 15)
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 * 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
* 1775: First abolitionist society in U.S. founded
* Sidney Poitier becomes first Black to win Academy Award for Best Actor - 1964
* Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia - 1862
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