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Clara
“Mother” Hale’s birthday
1950 - Death of Charles Drew, developer of blood
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Apr.
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1976
- Toussaint L'Ouverture commanded French Forces
at St. Domingo
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Apr.
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1950
- Death of Cater G. Woodson |
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Apr.
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Senegal’s
Independence Day
Muddy Waters’ Birthday
Maya Angelou’s Birthday
1968 - Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis |
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Apr.
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1865 - Booker
T. Washington born a slave in VA
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Apr.
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1909 -
Matthew Henson reached the North Pole
Last Quarter |
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Apr.
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1975 - Frank
Robinson named Cleveland Indians manager
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Apr.
08 |
1974 - Hank
Aaron set new home run record |
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Apr.
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1866 - Civil
Rights Bill passed over presidential veto
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Apr.
10 |
1833
- London acclaimed Ira Aldridge in "Othello" |
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Apr.
11 |
1947
- Jackie Robinson played 1st game - officially
integrating white baseball league in America |
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Apr.
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1861
- Confederate attack on Fort Sumter opened Civil
War
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Apr.
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1854
- Lucy C. Laney, educator, Birthday
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Apr.
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1775
- 1st Abolitionist Society org., Philadelphia
New Moon |
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Apr.
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1960 - Student
Nonviolent Coordination Comm. Organized, Shaw
Univ. |
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Apr.
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1869
- Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett named Min. of Haiti |
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Apr.
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1758 - Francis Williams pub. Latin poem
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Apr.
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1818 - Indians and Negroes
defeated in Battle of Sewanee
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Apr.
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1775- Black
and White minute fight at Lexington & Concord
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Apr.
20 |
1886
- Fisk
Univ., Nashville, TN opened |
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Apr.
21 |
1565
- Black explorers with Menendez at St. Augustine,
FL.
First Quarter |
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Apr.
22 |
1970
- Student protest at Yale supported Panthers |
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Apr.
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1872
- Charlotte E. Ray admitted to Bar |
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Apr.
24 |
1905
- Negro student entered Univ. of North Carolina
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Apr.
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1941 - Fair
Employment Practices Comm. Est. |
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Apr.
26 |
1966 -
Private Milton L. Olive, III, award Medal of
Honor posthumously |
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Apr.
27 |
1961
- Sierra Leone granted independence
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Apr.
28 |
1847 - George
B. Vashon admitted to NY State Bar
Full Moon |
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1899
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, Birthday |
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Apr.
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Apr.30 |
1983
- Memphis Blues honored at Smithsonian |
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