African American History Calendar

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October 8, 1941 - Rev. Jesse Jackson born in Greenville, South Carolina.

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October 9, 1888 - O. B. Clare patents rail Trestle.

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October 11, 1887 - Granville T. Woods patents telephone system and apparatus.

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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/

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African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the award.

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Garret A. Morgan patents the gas mask.

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October 13, 1579 - Martin de Porres, the first Black saint in the Roman Catholic Church, born.