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Willie D. Burton becomes the first African American to win the Oscar for sound, for the movie Bird.
12:31 AM Apr 11th
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President Johnson signed a bill. This bill also made it a crime to interfere with civil rights work...
12:31 AM Apr 11th
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U.S. Congress pass Civil Rights Bill banning racial discrimination in sale or rental of approximatel...
9:29 PM Apr 9th
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Actress Jamsime Guy is born in Boston, Massachusettes.
9:29 PM Apr 9th
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Arthur Ashe, first African American American Davis Cup team member, first African American to win th...
9:29 PM Apr 9th
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Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W. Nzima, Ghana.
9:29 PM Apr 9th
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Entertainer Josephine Baker dies.
12:43 AM Apr 9th
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Martin Luther King Jr. buried after funeral services at Ebenezer Baptist Church and memorial service...
10:38 PM Apr 8th
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Marian Anderson performs for 65,000 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after she is refused admiss...
10:38 PM Apr 8th
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Dr.
Nathan Hare,
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10:38 PM Apr 8th
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Paule Marshall, novelist, born
10:38 PM Apr 8th
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On this date in 1999, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released "This Far By Faith: An Afr...
10:45 PM Apr 7th
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Percy Julian, developer of drugs to combat glaucoma and methods to mass produce cortisone and George...
10:45 PM Apr 7th
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State troopers mobilized to stop disturbances in Wrightsville, Georgia. Racial incidents were also ...
10:45 PM Apr 7th
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Henry ("Hank") Aaron broke Babe Ruth's major league baseball record, by hitting his 715th home run ...
10:45 PM Apr 7th
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The Dunghutti Aboriginal people of NSW and other stakeholders negotiate the first successful claim u...
10:02 PM Apr 6th
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Anthony Drew(Tony) Dorset, 45, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, born Rochester, PA. April 7, 1954
10:02 PM Apr 6th
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The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. W...
10:02 PM Apr 6th
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Frederick Dewayne Hubbard, trumpeter, born
10:02 PM Apr 6th
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Actor Billy Dee Williams, known in such works as "Mahogany" and two "Star Wars" sequels, was born in...
9:19 PM Apr 5th
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