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April 11, 2027 - April 17, 2027 (Week 15)
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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
1983: Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple
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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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1775: First abolitionist society in U.S. is founded in Philadelphia.
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April 15, 1964 - Sidney Poitier becomes first Black to win Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field.
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April 16, 1862 - Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia.
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1983: Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Color Purple.
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