African American History Calendar

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June 11, 1912 - Joseph H. Dickson patents player piano

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1911 - Marcus Garvey found the The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities (Imperial) League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization. The organization enjoyed its greatest strength in the 1920s, prior to Garvey's deportation from the United States of America, after which its prestige and influence declined.

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June 12, 1963 - Medgar W. Evers, civil rights leader, is assassinated in Jackson, Miss.

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June 13, 1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson.

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June 14, 1864 - Congress rules that African American soldiers must receive equal pay.

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June 16, 1970 - Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, N.J., first African American mayor of a major eastern U.S. city.

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Jacques Dessaliness declared emperor of Haiti - 1804