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April 22 1441
Episode 		  Goree Island, home of "The Door of No Return."
The date remembers Goree Island.
May 5 1441
Episode 		  Blacks in Latin America, a brief history. . .
On this date of Cinco de Mayo, we look briefly at the history of Africans in Latin (Central and South) America and the Caribbean.
December 1 1441
Episode 		  Black history in Europe, a short story!
*African (black) history in Europe from 1400 is briefly recalled on this dates Registry.
March 13 1500
Episode 		  Bahia, a source point for Africa in the Americas. . .
*The state of Bahia in Brazil from 1500 is remembered on this date.
November 3 1500
Episode 		  African & Native Americans share a rich history.
*From the beginning of U.
August 20 1619
Episode 		  African slaves arrive at Jamestown.
It was on this date in 1619 that 20 Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia, aboard a Dutch ship.
January 3 1624
Episode 		  First black birth recorded in America
On this date in 1624, the first African-American birth was recorded.
September 13 1663
Episode 		  1663 slave revolt in Virginia.
On this date in 1663, the first known slave revolt occurred in Gloucester County, VA.
July 15 1700
Episode 		  "Jumping The Broom," a short history. . .
"Jumping the Broom," is celebrated on this date.
February 28 1708
Episode 		  Slave revolt in Long Island, NY
*On this date in 1708, one of the first recorded slave revolts occurred in America.
April 6 1712
Episode 		  Slave revolt in New York!
On this date in 1712, the New York Slave Rebellion occurred.
November 1 1733
Episode 		  Early African Slave Rebellion Successful!
On this date in 1733, one of the first successful African slave rebellions took place.
March 1 1738
Episode 		  Maroons sign Treaty with England!
On this date in 1738, escaped African slaves and British settlers in Central America agreed to a conflict truce.
October 26 1749
Episode 		  England formally sanctions American slavery!
On this date in 1749, the British parliament formally legalized slavery in the colony now known as Georgia.
March 5 1770
Episode 		  British massacre demonstrators in Boston. . .
*This is the date of the Boston Massacre in 1770.
May 10 1775
Episode 		  Fort Ticonderoga captured!
On this date in 1775, Black patriots helped capture Fort Ticonderoga.
June 17 1775
Episode 		  Battle of Bunker Hill has a diverse history!
On this date in 1775, several Blacks participated in the famous, but misnamed, Battle of Bunker Hill.
November 24 1775
Episode 		  Blacks barred from Continental Army!
On this date in 1775, the Continental Congress of the United States issued the order to bar Blacks from the army.
March 1 1780
Episode 		  Pennsylvania abolishes slavery
On this date in 1780, Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
May 9 1781
Episode 		  The Pico House, a California landmark!
The construction of the Pico House in 1870 is celebrated on this date.
May 6 1787
Episode 		  First Black masonic Lodge organized. .
On this date in 1787, Prince Hall, a Revolutionary War veteran, organized the Negro Masonic Order in the United States-African Lodge No.
October 23 1790
Episode 		  First Haitian slave revolt.
On this date in 1790, the first slave revolt in Haiti took place.
May 16 1792
Episode 		  Denmark abolishes slavery . . .
On this date in 1792, Denmark abolished slavery.
February 4 1794
Episode 		  France abolishes slavery . . .
*On this date in 1794 France abolished slavery.
June 1 1800
Episode 		  Nigger (the word), a brief history!
On this date, we look at the history of word “nigger” in America.
January 1 1804
Episode 		  Independence for Haiti!
On this date in 1804, Haiti emerged as the first independent Black-led republic in the modern world.
January 5 1804
Episode 		  Ohio enacts "Black Laws."

On this date in 1804, “Black Laws” were enacted in the state of Ohio.
January 8 1811
Episode 		  Slaves rebel in Louisiana!
On this date in 1811, Black slaves rebelled against their white masters in Louisiana.
July 27 1815
Episode 		  Slave Fort in Florida attacked, Seminole Wars begin!
On this date in 1815, the Seminole Wars began when a U.
February 6 1820
Episode 		  The Mayflower of Liberia leaves New York!
*On this date in 1820 the Mayflower of Liberia set sail.
June 16 1822
Episode 		  Slaves revolt in South Carolina
On this date in 1822, Denmark Vesey led a slave rebellion in South Carolina.
April 30 1828
Episode 		  Shaka, Zulu Chief killed. .
*On this date in 1828, Shaka, the great Zulu King was killed.
May 28 1830
Episode 		  Native and African Americans removed . . .
On this date in 1830, U.
August 21 1831
Episode 		  Nat Turner leads slave rebellion
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner and 70 slaves began a two-day uprising in Southampton County, Virginia.
November 10 1831
Episode 		  Nat Turner confesses to details of slave uprising
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner confessed to his leadership in the famous uprising in Virginia.
November 11 1831
Episode 		  Nat Turner hanged!
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
December 25 1831
Episode 		  Black Seminoles defeat U.S. troops at Okeechobee.
On this date in 1831, during the Second Seminole War, a force of Seminole Indians defeated U.
December 4 1833
Episode 		  Anti-Slavery Society meets in Philadelphia.
On this date in 1833, 60 abolitionist leaders met to end slavery in the organization called the American Anti-slavery Society.
August 1 1834
Episode 		  British Empire abolishes slavery
On this date in 1834, slavery became illegal.
February 23 1836
Episode 		  The Alamo, why did it happen?
*On this date in 1836, the Mexican army began attacking the Alamo.
June 28 1839
Episode 		  Cinque kidnapped, Amistad saga begins . . .
On this date in 1839, Cinque of the Mende tribe was kidnapped into slavery.
October 27 1842
Episode 		  Fort Scott, Kansas; a historic landmark!
Fort Scott, Kansas, is celebrated on this date.
April 29 1845
Episode 		  First Black Law practice opened. .
*It was on this date in 1845, Macon B.
December 4 1849
Episode 		  Roberts vs. City of Boston begins.
On this date in 1849, the case of Roberts v.
September 18 1850
Episode 		  Congress passes the Compromise of 1850!
*On this date in 1850 the United States Congress passed the second Fugitive Slave Law act.
February 15 1851
Episode 		  Abolitionists rescue slave from courtroom. . .
*On this date 1851, Black abolitionists broke into a Boston courthouse and rescued Shadrach Minkins, a fugitive slave.
September 11 1851
Episode 		  The Christiana Riot--the first open resistance to fugitive slave law
On this date in 1851, the Christiana Resistance occurred, a race riot that was the first recorded open resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.
April 11 1852
Episode 		  Uncle Toms Cabin, then and now!
Uncle Toms Cabin, an antislavery novel written in 1852 is celebrated on this date.
July 5 1852
Episode 		  Frederick Douglass gives one of his greatest speeches. . .
On this date in 1852, Frederick Douglass gave the speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.
April 20 1853
Episode 		  Harriet Tubman starts working with the Underground railroad!
On this date in 1853, Harriet Tubman began her work with the
May 24 1854
Episode 		  Anthony Burns, a southern slave, captured in Boston
On this date in 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns was returned to the South from Boston.
May 30 1854
Episode 		  The Kansas/Nebraska Act passed
On this date in 1854, the U.
January 28 1856
Episode 		  The moving sacrifice of Margaret Garner
*On this date in 1856, we celebrate the Margaret Garner story.
March 6 1857
Episode 		  The Dred Scott case, an American turning point . . .
*On this date in 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott Case.
March 3 1859
Episode 		  "The Weeping Time" occurs.
*On this date in 1859, "the weeping time" of slavery occurred in African American heritage.
October 16 1859
Episode 		  John Brown begins the raid on Harper Ferry
On this date in 1859, abolitionist John Brown, who was white, and a group of his followers raided the Harpers Ferry Virginia arsenal.
December 16 1859
Episode 		  Harpers Ferry conspirators hanged!
On this date in 1859, two of the five Black abolitionist in the raid on Harpers Ferry, Shields Green and John Anthony Copeland, were hanged.
April 12 1861
Episode 		  American "Civil War" begins.
On this date in 1861, the Civil War began.
May 31 1861
Episode 		  The American Civil War, a brief summary!
The American Civil War, waged from 1861 to 1865, is remembered on this date.
June 1 1861
Episode 		  First Civil War Encounter!
The first encounter of the Civil War happened on this date in 1861 at the Fairfax Court House in Arlington Mills, Virginia.
August 30 1861
Episode 		  Fremont Proclamation revoked. . .
On this date in 1854, John C.
September 25 1861
Episode 		  Blacks admitted into Union Navy but not allowed to enlist until 1932
On this date in 1861, The Union Navy admitted Blacks for military service for the first time, almost a year before the army opened its ranks.
November 26 1861
Episode 		  West Virginia created by secession from Southern Confederate state
On this date in 1861, West Virginia began the Secessionist Convention that would result in its breaking away from the Confederate state of Virginia, the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state and one of three states to secede from another state.
February 21 1862
Episode 		  Slave-trader hanged!
*On this date in 1862, Nathaniel Gordon was hanged for slave trading.
April 16 1862
Episode 		  Slavery abolished in Washington D.C.
On this date in 1862, the nations capitol ended slavery.
May 12 1862
Episode 		  Slaves take confederate ship "The Planter!"
On this date in 1862, Black slaves commandeered the Confederate ship “the Planter.
May 20 1862
Episode 		  Homestead Act passed by Congress. .
On this date in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act.
March 10 1863
Episode 		  54th Infantry created
*This date celebrates the creation of the all-Black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry in 1863.
April 17 1863
Episode 		  Black woman kicked off of Cable Car!
On this date in 1863, a black woman was forcibly removed from a horse-drawn streetcar in San Francisco.
May 17 1863
Episode 		  Lincoln orders freedom for slaves!
*On this date in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation; ordering that all slaves in rebel territory be freed.
July 13 1863
Episode 		  The New York Civil War Draft Riots occur
On this date in 1863, the New York Draft Riots occurred.
July 18 1863
Episode 		  First Black receives Congressional Medal of Honor. .
On this date in 1863, the first African American received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
July 20 1863
Episode 		  Miscegenation, a story of racial intimacy!
On this date, the African American Registry discusses miscegantion.
December 2 1863
Episode 		  Slave finishes White House Dome!
*On this date in 1863, “Freedom,” the statue on top of the dome of the U.
April 12 1864
Episode 		  Fort Pillow, a Civil War dishonor!
This date marks the anniversary of the Fort Pillow Massacre in 1864.
June 14 1864
Episode 		  Congress legislates equal pay to Black soldiers!
*On this date in 1864, Congress passed the enrollment Act that authorized equal pay for Black soldiers.
July 31 1864
Episode 		  Reconstruction, America's first attempt to integrate.
On this date we remember Reconstruction, the historic period that began during
January 16 1865
Episode 		  General Sherman enacts "forty acres and a mule."
On this day in 1865, General William T.
March 8 1865
Episode 		  The Freedman's Bureau helped newly freed slaves!
*This date celebrates the Freedmen’s Bureau.
June 19 1865
Episode 		  Junteenth, National Freedom Day observed!
This date marks the Juneteenth National Freedom Day.
December 6 1865
Episode 		  The United States ratifies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified on this date in 1865.
April 19 1866
Episode 		  Blacks celebrate abolition from slavery!
On this date in 1866, the African-American citizens of
Washington, D.
June 28 1866
Episode 		  Buffalo Soldiers units created
*On June 28, 1866, an Act of Congress authorized the creation of two cavalry and four infantry regiments, "which shall be composed of colored men.
July 30 1866
Episode 		  New Orleans riot against blacks kept Louisiana in white hands
On this date in 1866, the New Orleans riot occurred.
February 6 1867
Episode 		  The Peabody Fund established
*On this date in 1867.
November 19 1867
Episode 		  Blacks affect South Carolina politics in post-Civil War period
On this date in 1867, emancipated Blacks began influencing South Carolina politics, when citizens of the state endorsed their constitutional convention and selected state delegates.
September 28 1868
Episode 		  Massacre in Opelousas!
On this date in 1868, the Opelousas massacre occurred.
October 16 1868
Episode 		  Black Senator assassinated!
On this date in 1868, a black senator was assassinated in South Carolina.
November 3 1868
Episode 		  First Black man elected to U.S. Congress!
On this date in 1868, the first Black man was elected to the U.
March 30 1870
Episode 		  The 15th Amendment, an ongoing story. . .
*On this date in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.
April 23 1872
Episode 		  First Black woman admitted to practice Law.
On this date in 1872, Charlotte E.
March 23 1873
Episode 		  Puerto Rico ends slavery!
On this date in 1873, Puerto Rico abolished slavery.
September 14 1874
Episode 		  The Battle of Liberty Place occurs!
*On this date in 1874, White Democrats seized the Louisiana statehouse in a takeover.
May 17 1875
Episode 		  Black jockey wins first Kentucky Derby.
On this date in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run with a black man as the jockey.
September 1 1875
Episode 		  Race riot in Mississippi!
*On this date in 1875, White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City, Mississippi.
November 2 1875
Episode 		  The Mississippi Plan, political deviance!
*On this date in 1875, The Mississippi Plan went into effect.
November 16 1875
Episode 		  Ethiopia wins the battle of Gundet.
On this date in 1875, Ethiopia won the Battle of Gundet over Egypt.
October 4 1877
Episode 		  The first Black rural settlement after slavery ended
On this date in 1877, the Registry celebrates the town of Nicodemus, Kansas, a brief haven for many Blacks from the old confederacy long before southern Blacks migrated to the industries of the north.
December 26 1877
Episode 		  "Jim Crow Laws" were meant to enslave.
Jim Crow Laws are featured on this date.
January 11 1879
Episode 		  Zulu British war begins
On this date in 1879 the Zulu-British War began.
February 28 1879
Episode 		  The beginning of "The Exodus of 1879".
*On this date in 1879, the exodus from slavery after reconstruction began in earnest.
October 18 1882
Episode 		  Chanteys, worksongs with roots from Africa!
This date's Registry looks at the origins of the Chanteys in 1882.
June 25 1885
Episode 		  First Black Bishop becomes the first Black member of the Episcopal House of bishops .
On this date in 1885, Samuel David Ferguson was consecrated as bishop on June 24, 1885 (Saint John the Baptist's Feast Day), at Grace Church, New York, becoming the first Black member of the House of Bishopsin the Episcopal Church.
May 13 1888
Episode 		  Brazil Abolishes slavery!
On this date in 1888, Brazil abolished slavery.
August 12 1890
Episode 		  The "Mississippi Plan" begins!
*On this date in 1890, The Mississippi Constitutional Convention began systematic exclusion of Blacks from the politics of South.
February 13 1892
Episode 		  World's Fair Colored Opera Company debuts. . .
*On this date in 1892 the first African-American performers appeared at Carnegie Hall.
March 9 1892
Episode 		  Lynching in Memphis!
*On this date in 1892, three Black businessmen were lynched in Memphis.
May 11 1892
Episode 		  Fifteen year old rider wins Kentucky Derby!
On this date in 1892, an African American became the youngest rider ever to win the Kentucky Derby.
June 2 1892
Episode 		  Plessy v Ferguson begins!
*On this date in 1892, a 30-year-old Black shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad.
July 9 1893
Episode 		  African American surgeon performs the first sucessful open-heart surgery in America!
On this date in 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black surgeon, Dr.
March 18 1895
Episode 		  Free Blacks leave for Liberia. . .
*On this date in 1895, 200 former African slaves left Savannah, Georgia for Liberia.
September 18 1895
Episode 		  Atlanta Compromise heard!
The Atlanta Compromise occurred on this date in 1895.
March 1 1896
Episode 		  Ethiopia wins the battle of Adwa!
On this date in 1896, Ethiopia defeated the Italian colonial army in the Battle of Adwa.
October 2 1897
Episode 		  The first Black firefighter hired in Los Angeles!
On this date in 1897, the first African-American firefighter of the Los Angeles Fire Department was hired.
April 21 1898
Episode 		  Spanish American War declared!
The Spanish-American War was declared on this date in 1898.
November 10 1898
Episode 		  Riot in Wilmington, N.C., kills blacks and ushers in Jim Crow laws
On this date in 1898, the Wilmington race riot took place, which became a landmark in North Carolina history.
February 12 1900
Episode 		  The debut of the Negro National Anthem
*On this date in 1900 “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” also known as the Negro National Anthem and the Negro National Hymn was sung publicly for the first time.
March 28 1900
Episode 		  Britain ask the Ashanti tribe for the "Golden Stool."
*Britain asks the Ashanti for the Golden Stool on this date in 1900.
April 30 1900
Episode 		  "The Ballad of Casey Jones" Written!
On this date in 1900, one of America’s classic folk songs, The Ballad of Casey Jones, was written.
September 22 1905
Episode 		  Race riots in Atlanta!
*On this date in 1906, The Atlanta race riot occurred.
September 27 1905
Episode 		  The first published Blues song goes on sale!
On this date in 1905, the first published blues composition hit the streets of America.
October 22 1906
Episode 		  Protest against the Klan and tragedy in Philadelphia.
On this date in 1906, 3,000 blacks demonstrated and rioted in Philadelphia in protest over a theatrical presentation of Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman," which claimed to be the true story of the "Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy.
June 30 1908
Episode 		  Allensworth, CA., a community of black self pride!
On this date, we celebrate the founding of Allensworth, California, in 1908.
May 31 1909
Episode 		  NAACP holds its first conference
On this date in 1909, the NAACP held its first conference, in New York City.
June 29 1914
Episode 		  An award of excellence, the Spingarn Medal!
The the Spingarn Medal was established on this day in 1914, one of the most prestigious annual awards given in African America.
February 2 1915
Episode 		  First Spingarn Award given!
*On this date in 1915 Ernest Just, biologist, received the Spingarn Medal for pioneering research on fertilization and cell division.
March 20 1916
Episode 		  Ota Benga commits suicide!
*On this date in 1916, Ota Benga, an African pygmie kept in the Bronx Zoo, killed himself.
May 15 1916
Episode 		  The Waco Horror, racism gone wild!
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The Waco Horror took place on this date in 1916, one of many lynching of Blacks by whites in America during the 20th century.
January 14 1917
Episode 		  Black soldiers retaliate in Houston
On this date in 1917 black soldiers in Houston, TX, retaliated against white racism.
July 28 1917
Episode 		  "Red Summers," long, hot, and painful. The image attached to this link may be inappropriate for young children
*On this date 1917, the NAACP staged a silent protest rally against lynching.
October 15 1917
Episode 		  First Black Officers finish military duty
On this date in 1917, the first black enlistees from West Point graduated from military duty at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
November 5 1917
Episode 		  Supreme Court strikes down segregation
On this date in 1917, the U.
September 30 1919
Episode 		  Race riot in Elaine, Arkansas!
*On this date in 1919 a Race Riot broke out in Elaine, Arkansas in Phillips County between Blacks and whites.
June 5 1920
Episode 		  Du Bois receives Spingarn Medal!
On this date in 1920, W.
June 15 1920
Episode 		  Blacks hanged in Duluth, Minnesota The stories image may not be suitable for young children to see.
On this date in 1920, three Black men were hanged in Duluth, Minnesota.
May 23 1921
Episode 		  Shuffle Along hits Broadway!
On this date in 1921, "Shuffle Along" became the first African-American Broadway Musical.
May 31 1921
Episode 		  Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma
On this date in 1921, 300 people died in the Tulsa Race riots, most of them Black, at the hands of a White mob.
July 20 1922
Episode 		  Barney Hill, a story of alien beings. .
Barney Hill was born on this date in 1922.
August 12 1922
Episode 		  Memorial to Frederick Douglass dedicated.
*On this date in 1922, the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington D.
November 4 1922
Episode 		  King Tut's tomb discovered.
On this date in 1922, King Tut’s tomb was discovered.
October 29 1923
Episode 		  "The Charleston" goes public!
On this date in 1923, "Runnin’ Wild" opened at the Colonial Theater in New York City.
February 7 1926
Episode 		  Carter Woodson initiates National Negro Week.
*On this date in 1926, Carter G.
June 8 1926
Episode 		  First black Eagle Scout awarded!
On this date in 1926, the first Black became an Eagle Scout in America.
August 9 1929
Episode 		  The Bud Billiken parade brings folk out!
*On this date in 2008, the Bud Billiken parade will take place in Chicago.
March 25 1931
Episode 		  Blacks on trial in Scottsboro, Alabama!
*On this date in 1931, nine young Black men were arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama, and the case of the Scottsboro Boys trial began.
August 30 1932
Episode 		  "America's Nuremberg," the Tuskegee Study!
On this date we remember the Tuskegee Syphilis study.
January 30 1933
Episode 		  Black history in Nazi Germany, a brief story!
*On this date from 1933, the Registry looks briefly into the Black history of Nazi Germany.
January 31 1934
Episode 		  First Black woman performs at the White House!
*On this date in 1934, Etta Moten sang for President and Mrs.
May 6 1935
Episode 		  The Works Progress Administration, a beginning for many!
On this date in 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created.
May 18 1935
Episode 		  An authors platform, the Federal Writers Project . . .
On this date we celebrate the Federal Writers Project (FWP).
November 5 1935
Episode 		  Murray v Pearson ruled.
*On this date in 1935, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled against segregation at the University of Maryland Law School.
June 14 1939
Episode 		  First Black seen on television!
*On this date in 1939, "The Ethel Waters Show," a variety special appeared on NBC.
November 13 1940
Episode 		  Supreme Court rules that Blacks cannot be barred from white neighborhoods
On this date in 1940, the Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v.
June 25 1941
Episode 		  The Fair Employment Practices Committee created!
*On this date in 1941, the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) was created.
June 25 1941
Episode 		  Marine Corps integrates!
On this date in 1941, the Marine Corps formally integrated.
September 29 1942
Episode 		  SS Booker T. Washington launched!
On this date in 1942, The SS Booker T.
January 5 1943
Episode 		  George Washington Carver Recognition Day celebrated!
On this date in 1943, George Washington Carver Day was established.
February 3 1943
Episode 		  Charles David, hero of the USS Dorchester
*On this date in 1943, Charles W.
February 28 1943
Episode 		  Detroit unrest, a sad reality .
*On this date in 1943 the Detroit rebellion occurred.
July 25 1943
Episode 		  Naval fighting ship named after black sailor!
On this date in 1943, the SS Leonard Roy Harmon, became the first Navy fighting ship to be named after an African-
American.
February 8 1944
Episode 		  First black reporter attends a White House press conference.
*On this date in 1944, Harry S.
August 21 1944
Episode 		  The "Red Ball Express," black soldiers supplied troops
On this date in 1944, The American Army started the “Red Ball Express,” a huge trucking operation to supply World War II troops in Europe with provisions.
October 19 1944
Episode 		  First Black woment admitted to Navy WAVES
On this date in 1944, the Navy integrated their Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service better known as WAVES.
March 5 1945
Episode 		  Lena Baker executed!
*On his date in 1945, Lena Baker, an African-American mother of three, was electrocuted at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsyille.
June 3 1946
Episode 		  Morgan v. Virginia ruled!
On this date in 1946, the U.
July 25 1946
Episode 		  The Monroe Massacre occurs!
On this date in 1946, the Monroe Massacre occurred, one of the most atrocious mass murders in the history of lynching in the United States.
August 7 1946
Episode 		  First black designs a U.S. mint coin!
*On this date in 1946 the first U.
April 23 1947
Episode 		  The first Freedom Ride takes place!
On this date in 1947, The Journey of Reconciliation is celebrated.
September 21 1947
Episode 		  St. Louis schools, integrate or excommunicate!
*On this date in 1947, St.
October 23 1947
Episode 		  NAACP petitions United Nations for NGO status
On this date in 1947, the NAACP issued a formal petition against racism in America to the United Nations titled "An Appeal to the World.
May 3 1948
Episode 		  The Shelley House
The Shelley House is celebrated on this date for its role in the U.
July 26 1948
Episode 		  One of the first TV shows hosted by a Black man
On this date in 1948, Bob Howard became one of the first Black male hosts on television.
August 9 1948
Episode 		  White reporter reports on the segregated South!
*On this date in 1948, a white man’s account of being Black in the segregated south was published.
June 13 1949
Episode 		  First Black graduates from Annapolis . . .
On this date in 1949, the first African-American graduated from the U.
May 5 1950
Episode 		  First Black wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
On this date in 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry, "Annie Allen.
September 22 1950
Episode 		  First black receives Nobel Peace Prize!
*On this date in 1950, Ralph Bunche received the Nobel Prize.
April 23 1951
Episode 		  Students protest Virginia segregated school!
On this date in 1951, a 16-year-old African-American girl led students from her overcrowded, segregated school in civil rights protest.
June 28 1951
Episode 		  Amos & Andy goes to televisioin!
On this date in 1951, the Amos 'n' Andy television show came on the air.
August 2 1951
Episode 		  First Black Medal of Honor conferred in Korean conflict
On this date in 1951, Private First Class William Henry Thompson became the first Black to earn the Medal of Honor in the Korean conflict.
October 1 1951
Episode 		  The HeLa Cell, an African American woman's contribution to cancer
October is national cancer awareness month, and the HeLa cancer cell discovered in 1951 is celebrated on this dates Registry.
June 15 1953
Episode 		  The first Civil Rights Bus Boycott!
*On this date in 1953, the Baton Rouge Bus boycott occurred.
July 14 1953
Episode 		  George Washington Carver National Monument dedicated!
The George Washington Carver National Monument was dedicated on this date in 1953, in Diamond, Missouri, although it was established ten years earlier (1943).
October 31 1954
Episode 		  Algeria gains independence!
On this date in 1954, Algeria gained independence from France.
March 2 1955
Episode 		  Black woman jailed for bus seating incident!
*On this date in 1955, 15-year-old Black teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to move out of her seat for a white woman on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
August 27 1955
Episode 		  Emmit Till murdered!
On this date in 1955, Emmit Till was murdered.
October 21 1955
Episode 		  Black woman jailed for bus seating incident!
On this date in 1955, an 18-year-old black woman was arrested for refusing to move out of her seat for a white woman on a public bus.
December 1 1955
Episode 		  Rosa Parks arrests launches new civil rights movement
On this date in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the “Whites only” section of a public bus in Montgomery, AL.
December 5 1955
Episode 		  The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins!
On this date in 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott occurred.
January 1 1956
Episode 		  Sudan gaines independence.
The anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Sudan was formally established on this date in 1956.
September 24 1957
Episode 		  Central H.S. in Little Rock integrated.
*On this date in 1957, President Dwight D.
September 20 1958
Episode 		  Dr. King stabbed in New York!
*On this date in 1958, Dr.
March 11 1959
Episode 		  "A Raisin in the Sun" hits Broadway!
*On this date in 1959 "A Raisin in the Sun," became the first Broadway play written by a Black woman.
February 1 1960
Episode 		  N.C. A&T students take a stand!
*On this date in 1960, the sit-in movement rose to new heights in the Civil rights era.
March 21 1960
Episode 		  Killings in Sharpsville, South Africa!
*On this date in 1960, police in Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, fired on Black South Africans protesting racially biased pass laws.
April 8 1960
Episode 		  South Africa bans African National Congress
*On this date in 1960, the South African Nationalist Government banned the African National Congress (ANC).
May 6 1960
Episode 		  Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed!
On this date in 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
January 11 1961
Episode 		  Hunter and Holmes reinstated at UGA
On this date in 1961, racial rioting erupted on the campus of the University of Georgia.
January 19 1961
Episode 		  Professional Golf integrates!
On this date in 1961, the Professional Golfers Tour (PGA) Tour lifted its whites-only clause.
May 20 1961
Episode 		  Freedom Riders attacked in Montgomery. .
On this date in 1961, a White mob attacked Freedom Riders with chains and ax handles in Montgomery, AL.
September 11 1962
Episode 		  Voter Registration workers wounded in Mississippi
On this date in 1962, two young voter registration workers were shot during a registration drive in the South.
April 16 1963
Episode 		  Dr. King pens "Birmingham Letter"!
On this date in 1963, Dr.
May 11 1963
Episode 		  Protestors, bombs, and police in Birmingham. .
On this date in 1963, young demonstrators marched on the Birmingham, AL City Hall for civil rights.
June 11 1963
Episode 		  University of Alabama integrates!
On this date in 1963, Vivian Malone and James Hood integrated the University of Alabama.
June 12 1963
Episode 		  Medgar Evers assasinated!
On this date in 1963, Civil Rights activist Medgar W.
August 16 1963
Episode 		  Post office issues first Black designed stamp!
*On this date in 1963, the first US postage stamp designed by an African-American was issued.
August 18 1963
Episode 		  First Black graduates from "Ole Miss"
*On this date in 1963, the first African-American graduated from the University of Mississippi.
August 28 1963
Episode 		  Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech
The 1963 March on Washington occurred on this date.
September 15 1963
Episode 		  Church bombing kills four children.
*On his date in 1963, four African American schoolgirls were killed in a bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
January 23 1964
Episode 		  Twenty-fourth amendment passed
*On this date in 1964 the twenty-fourth amendment to the constitution was passed.
March 8 1964
Episode 		  Malcolm X leaves Nation Of Islam!
*On this date in 1964, Malcolm X Separated from the Nation of Islam (NOI).
June 21 1964
Episode 		  Three Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi. .
On this date in 1964, three Civil Rights workers disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
August 18 1964
Episode 		  No Olympics for South Africa!
*On this date in 1964, South Africa was banned from the Tokyo Olympic Games.
October 24 1964
Episode 		  Zambia gains independence.
On this date in 1964, Zambia gained independence from Britain.
December 10 1964
Episode 		  Dr. King awarded Nobel Peace Prize!
On this date in 1964, Dr.
February 21 1965
Episode 		  Malcolm X killed!
*On this date in 1965, Black Nationalist Malcolm X was shot and killed.
March 7 1965
Episode 		  The incident at the Edmund Pettus Bridge!
*On this date in 1965, the Edmund Pettus Bridge attack occurred.
August 11 1965
Episode 		  Civil rights rioting in L.A.
*On this date in 1965 the Los Angeles Riots began.
August 12 1965
Episode 		  Civil Rights workers attacked in Alabama!
*On this date in 1965 Civil Rights demonstrators were attacked in Alabama.
February 26 1966
Episode 		  First Black governor of the Federal Reserve appointed!
*On this date in 1966, the first African American became the governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
May 22 1966
Episode 		  First Black wins Emmy Award for best actor
On this date in 1966, Bill Cosby received an Emmy Award for best actor in a television series.
June 17 1966
Episode 		  Carmichael rally marches towards Black Power!
On this date in 1966, Stokely Carmichael (who later was known as Kwame Ture), then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), gave his famous Black Power speech.
November 8 1966
Episode 		  First African-American senator elected since Reconstruction!
On this date in 1966, Edward W.
June 6 1967
Episode 		  Athletes support Muhammad Ali!
On this date in 1967, leading Black athletes gathered to hear Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) give his reasons for rejecting the United States military draft.
June 12 1967
Episode 		  Supreme Court rules on Loving v. Virginia!
On this date in 1967, the U.
June 25 1967
Episode 		  Muhammad Ali stripped of title for opposing Vietnam War
On this date in 1967, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) was stripped of his heavyweight title for five years.
June 26 1967
Episode 		  King denied pulpit in Chicago!
On June this date, Dr.
July 17 1967
Episode 		  Race Riot in Cairo, Illinois!
On this date in 1967, three days of riots and protests occurred in Cairo, Illinois.
July 22 1967
Episode 		  Black Power conference of Newark held
On this date we mark the assembly in Newark of the first Black Power Conference.
July 23 1967
Episode 		  Motor City race unrest errupts!
On this date in 1967, the Detroit rebellion occurred.
July 30 1967
Episode 		  Riot erupts in Milwaukee!
On this date in 1967, Milwaukee joined the list of cities that erupted into violence, joining hundreds of other American cities in the nation's civil rights battle in the late 1960s.
October 2 1967
Episode 		  Thurgood Marshall sworn in to the Supreme Court.
On this date in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in and became the first African-American judge on the U.
February 8 1968
Episode 		  Students killed in segregation protest. . .
*On this date in 1968, the Orangeburg Massacre occurred.
February 29 1968
Episode 		  Kerner Commission report finished.
On this date in 1968 the Kerner Report was made public.
April 3 1968
Episode 		  Martin Luther King delivers his last speech!
*On this date in 1968, Dr.
April 4 1968
Episode 		  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
*This date marks the assassination of Dr.
April 6 1968
Episode 		  Black Panther gunned down!
On this date in 1968, in west Oakland, Bobby Hutton, 17 years old, was shot dead by Oakland police.
May 11 1968
Episode 		  Poor Peoples Campaign arrives in D.C.!
The first phase of the Poor People's Campaign began on this date in 1968.
August 17 1968
Episode 		  The first Miss Black America pageant held!
*On this date in 1968, the first Miss Black America Pageant was held.
October 16 1968
Episode 		  African-American athletes suspended from Olympics
On this date in 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, African-American sprinters, were suspended from the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
January 14 1969
Episode 		  Student takeover at University of Minnesota
On this date in 1969, students took over Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota.
April 19 1969
Episode 		  Student takeover at Cornell Univesrity.
On this date in 1969 more than 80 members of the Afro-American Society took over Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University’s student union.
May 5 1969
Episode 		  First Black wins Pulitzer Prize for photography. . .
On this date in 1969, Moneta Sleet became the first African- American photographer awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
July 22 1969
Episode 		  Riot in York, Pennsylvania. .
*On this date in 1969 in York, Pennsylvania the National Guard was called to suppress a race riot.
December 4 1969
Episode 		  Two Black Panthers murdered by police.
On this date in 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and Mark Clark, a fellow member were killed while sleeping by Chicago police.
December 8 1969
Episode 		  Black Panther member attacked by police in Los Angeles and survives
On this date in 1969, Los Angeles police raided the Black Panther headquarters, in L.
February 13 1970
Episode 		  NYSEX admits it first Black member!
*On this date in 1970 The New York Stock Exchange (NYSEX) let in its first African-American member, Joseph Searles.
April 9 1970
Episode 		  The "Syracuse 8," a commitment for change!
This date in 1970 celebrates the “Syracuse 8” college football players.
May 14 1970
Episode 		  Killings at Jackson State University!
On this date in 1970, two Black students at Jackson State University were killed and many others injured by Jackson police.
July 11 1970
Episode 		  Gangs in African America, a brief history . .
*Youth Gangs in African America, and urban America from 1970 is briefly discussed on this dates Registry.
August 29 1970
Episode 		  Police Raid Black Panthers in Philadelphia
On this date in 1970, Philadelphia police confronted the Black Panthers.
September 10 1971
Episode 		  Attica Prison riot in New York State egins
On this date in 1971, 1,300 prisoners took over Attica Prison in Western New York State.
October 6 1971
Episode 		  North Carolina accepts interracial marriages!
On this date in 1971, the first legal interracial marriage in North Carolina took place.
March 10 1972
Episode 		  First National Black Political Convention held . . .
*On this date in 1972 the first National Black Political Assembly was held.
March 28 1972
Episode 		  Soledad brothers acquitted!
*The two surviving Soledad Brothers were acquitted on this date in 1972.
June 4 1972
Episode 		  Angela Davis acquitted on gun charges. .
On this date in 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted of all charges stemming from an abortive escape and kidnap attempt in the Marin County, CA’s Hall of Justice two years earlier.
February 17 1973
Episode 		  The USS Jesse L. Brown commissioned!
*On this date in 1973, a naval ship was named after African American Jesse Brown.
May 29 1973
Episode 		  First Black mayor in Los Angeles
On this date in 1973, Tom Bradley became the first African-American mayor of Los Angeles, CA.
November 6 1973
Episode 		  School superintendent killed!
A Black superintendent of schools was killed in an ambush on this date in 1973.
November 6 1973
Episode 		  Ebonics, a short history.
This date from 1973 celebrates “Ebonics,” sometimes called Black English.
June 30 1974
Episode 		  Alberta W. King killed!
On this date in 1974, Mrs.
July 18 1974
Episode 		  Racism in Boy Scouts of LDS in Utah!
On this date in 1974, a 12-year-old African-American Boy Scout was denied a senior patrol leadership in his troop because he was Black.
June 25 1975
Episode 		  Mazambique gains independence!
On this date in 1975, Mozambique gained its independence from Portugal.
November 18 1978
Episode 		  Suicide in Guyana--the Jonestown Massacre.
On this date in 1978, the Jonestown Massacre occurred in which 913 people, most of them African-Americans, committed suicide and died in Jonestown, Guyana.
March 7 1979
Episode 		  Georgia gains closure with native son!
*On this date in 1979, the state of Georgia honored and issued a formal apology to musician and composer Ray Charles.
August 15 1979
Episode 		  Andrew Young resigns from U.N.
*On this date in 1979, Andrew Young (then) United States ambassador to the United Nations resigned.
May 17 1980
Episode 		  Riot erupts in Liberty City!
On this date in 1980, the “Miami Riot “occurred.
June 8 1980
Episode 		  Richard Pryor almost takes his life!
On this date in 1980, Richard Pryor attempted to commit suicide by setting himself on fire at his Northridge, CA, home.
September 15 1980
Episode 		  Lewis Place, a St. Louis landmark!
*On this date in 1980, Lewis Place was positioned on America’s National Register of Historic Landmarks.
April 10 1981
Episode 		  The age of discontent, the Brixton Riots.
On this date in 1981, the Brixton Riots occurred.
June 2 1981
Episode 		  Another Black man killed by the police!
On this date in 1981, Ron Settles was murdered while in police custody.
June 21 1981
Episode 		  Atlanta child killer arrested!
On this date in 1981, the Atlanta child killer was arrested.
July 31 1981
Episode 		  First woman president of National Bar Association installed!
On this date in 1981, Attorney Arnette R.
September 17 1983
Episode 		  First Black Miss America Crowned!
*On this date in 1983, Vanessa Williams became the 56th Miss America, and the first African-American woman to be chosen.
October 25 1983
Episode 		  U.S. invades Grenada!
On this date in 1983, President Ronald Reagan ordered U.
November 2 1983
Episode 		  Martin Luther King Day bill signed!
*On this date in 1983, the legislative bill establishing Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday was signed.
November 21 1984
Episode 		  Anti-Apartheid protest happens!
On this date in 1984, The South African Embassy in Washington D.
January 18 1986
Episode 		  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrated!
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we have the text of his speech, "I Have a Dream.
December 20 1986
Episode 		  The Howard Beach incident occurs!
The Howard Beach incident, the murder of a black man by a small white mob in New York, occurred on this date in 1986.
January 16 1987
Episode 		  African-American Socialite murdered!
On this date in 1987, an African-American socialite was murdered.
January 31 1988
Episode 		  First Black QB in Super Bowl earns MVP!
*On this date in 1988, the first Black Super Bowl MVP was named.
February 27 1988
Episode 		  Debi Thomas skates into history!
*On this date in 1988, world-class figure skater Debi Thomas made an Olympic first.
September 6 1988
Episode 		  First Black Texas Ranger hired!
On this date in 1988, Lee Roy Young became the first African-American Texas Ranger in the 20th Century.
November 8 1988
Episode 		  Woman becomes America's first official black presidential candidate!
On this date in 1988, the first African American officially qualified to run for president of the United States of America.
August 7 1989
Episode 		  Congressman Mickey Leland killed!
*On this date in 1989 Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland was killed in Africa.
August 19 1989
Episode 		  Bishop Tutu defies aparthied law!
*On this date in 1989, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the first Black Bishop of his church; defied apartheid laws by walking alone on a South African beach.
November 20 1989
Episode 		  Supreme Court favors reverse discrimination.
On this date in 1989, the U.
January 18 1990
Episode 		  Marion Berry arrested
On this date in 1990, the FBI and D.
January 26 1990
Episode 		  First Black woman executive in MLB!
*On this date in 1990, the first Black Woman executive in major league baseball MLB was named.
February 2 1990
Episode 		  De Klerk promises to free Mandela!
*On this date in 1990, South African President F.
February 11 1990
Episode 		  Nelson Mandela set free!
*On this date in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
June 10 1990
Episode 		  RAP group The 2 Live Crew indicted.
On this date in 1990, a Florida state court declared "As Nasty As They Wanna" be by the RAP Group "The 2 Live Crew" to be legally obscene.
June 13 1990
Episode 		  First Black women coaches Division One mens basketball!
On this date in 1990, the first African-American woman was named assistant coach in Division I NCAA basketball.
November 6 1990
Episode 		  First Black woman mayor of major U.S. city elected!
On this date in 1990, Sharon Pratt Dixon was elected as the mayor of Washington D.
March 3 1991
Episode 		  Rodney King beaten by three white police officers
*This date marks the anniversary of the Rodney King beating.
March 16 1991
Episode 		  The senseless death of Latasha Harlins
*On this date in 1991, Latasha Harlins was killed.
August 19 1991
Episode 		  Crown Heights, a sign of the times!
*On this date in 1991 the Crown Heights riot occurred.
October 6 1991
Episode 		  The Scott Joplin House now a Historic Site
The Scott Joplin House opened as a Missouri State Historic site on this date in 1991.
October 11 1991
Episode 		  Anita Hill testifies to sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas
On this date in 1991, Anita Hill a University of Oklahoma law professor, gave senate testimony accusing Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
April 29 1992
Episode 		  Rodney King riots erupt in Los Angeles. .
*On this date The Los Angeles (Rodney King) Riot began in 1992.
November 3 1992
Episode 		  First Black woman elected to U.S. Senate!
On this date in 1992, Carol Mosely Braun, a Democrat from Illinois, became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate.
February 13 1993
Episode 		  Black Love Day celebrated!
*This date from 1993 celebrates Black Love Day (BLD) in America.
April 22 1994
Episode 		  Rwanda murders begin!
On this date in 1994 a mass murder of Africans began in Rwanda.
April 26 1994
Episode 		  South Africa holds first all-race elections!
*On this date in 1994, South Africa held its first all-race elections.
June 1 1994
Episode 		  South Africa rejoins commonwealth. . .
*On this date in 1994, South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth after an absence of 33 years.
June 17 1994
Episode 		  O. J. Simpson runs from LAPD in his Ford Bronco!
This date in 1994 marks the anniversary of O.
October 16 1995
Episode 		  Million Man March takes place.
On this date in 1995, the Million-Man March was held in Washington D.
April 3 1996
Episode 		  Balkans plane crash kills Ron Brown..
*On this date in 1996, Ron Brown died.
August 9 1997
Episode 		  Abner Louima beated by NYPD!
*On this date in 1997, Abner Louima was beaten.
October 17 1997
Episode 		  NAACP asks Merriam-Webster to revise the definition of "nigger"
On this date in 1997, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)called for a formal dictionary revision of the word “nigger.
October 25 1997
Episode 		  Million Woman March takes place!
*The Million-Woman March occurred on this date in 1997.
March 31 1998
Episode 		  Crown Heights riot nets conviction!
*On this date, in 1998, a Black man was sentenced for involvement in the Crown Heights riot.
June 7 1998
Episode 		  Black man dragged to death in Jasper, TX.
On this date in 1998, a Black man was dragged to his death in Jasper, TX.
February 4 1999
Episode 		  Another black man killed by American police!
*On this date in 1999, Amadou Diallo was killed by four New York City police officers from the NYPD Street Crime Unit.
March 15 1999
Episode 		  First Black Chess Grand Master ranked!
*On this date in 1999, the first African-American chess player attained the rank of International Grand Master.
May 28 2000
Episode 		  Aboriginal rights protested in Sydney
On this date in 2000 in Sydney, Australia, more than 200,000 demonstrators marched to support a campaign for social justice for Aborigines, Australia’s Black minority.
December 16 2000
Episode 		  The first African American Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
On this date in 2000, Colin Powell was appointed as United States Secretary of State.
December 30 2000
Episode 		  Black Sheriff murdered in Georgia.
On this date in 2000, an African-American sheriff was murdered in Dekalb County, Georgia.
May 1 2001
Episode 		  Church bomber convicted 38 years later.
On this date in 2001, justice prevailed in the racial murder of four young girls in Alabama.
June 8 2001
Episode 		  Civil Right s Commission reports on the 2000 national election!
On this date in 2001, the United States Civil Rights Commission, headed by Mary Frances Berry, issued the results of its six-month long study to the November 2000 presidential election.
September 9 2001
Episode 		  University of Alabama, the last college in the south to integrate
On this date in 2001, the University of Alabama sorority system remained segregated.
September 11 2001
Episode 		  Black firefighters gave their lives for the United States
On this date in 2001, 12 black firefighters died during the 9/11 attack at the World Trade Center in New York City.
September 26 2001
Episode 		  Another white policeman acquitted for shooting a black youth.
On this date in 2001, a white police officer in Cincinnati, OH, was acquitted in the killing of an unarmed black man.
October 12 2001
Episode 		  Nobel Peace Prize goes to Kofi Annan and the U.N.
On this date in 2001, in Oslo, Norway, the United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize.
November 16 2001
Episode 		  Miss World crowns first black African!
On this date in 2001, the first Black African woman won the Miss World beauty pageant.
December 18 2001
Episode 		  Death sentence thrown out for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
On this date in 2001, a federal judge threw out the death sentence imposed nearly two decades earlier on Mumia Abu-Jamal.
March 22 2002
Episode 		  Black woman to die by "Stoning?"
*On this date in 2002, a Black Nigerian woman convicted of adultery was sentenced to death by stoning.
March 24 2002
Episode 		  First Black woman wins Oscar for best actress!
*On this date in 2002, the first African-American woman won the Academy Award for best actress.
March 30 2002
Episode 		  Coaches of color make NCAA Final Four!
*On this date in 2002, two Black coaches in the NCAA’s Final Four competed against one another for the first time.
May 7 2002
Episode 		  Slavery today-- yes, it is still happening!
African Slavery in the 21st century is the subject of this date's Registry.
May 15 2002
Episode 		  Justice prevails 39 years after church bombing!
On this date in 2002, the last of the bomb killers of four Black children in Alabama was convicted.
May 15 2002
Episode 		  No Fear Act signed into Law!
On this date in 2002, President George W.
July 1 2002
Episode 		  Black Farmers stage sit-in!
On this date in 2002, the Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association staged a “prayer vigil and sit in.
July 7 2002
Episode 		  Black teenager beaten during arrest in L.A.
On this date in 2002, police brutality continued towards young Black men.
July 20 2002
Episode 		  First black president of Alabama State Bar!
On this date in 2002, the first black president of the Alabama state bar association was installed.
July 20 2002
Episode 		  The Cannon Street Little League is honored
On this date in 2002, the surviving members of the all-black 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League all-star team were honored.
August 17 2002
Episode 		  Rally for Reparations in D.C.
*On this date in 2002, hundreds of Blacks rallied in front of the nation’s capitol to demand slavery reparations, saying that compensation is long overdue.
September 16 2002
Episode 		  Black and Jewish relations, an article.
*On this date we look at the history of Black and Jewish relations in America.
September 21 2002
Episode 		  First black Woman heads Community College Trustees!
*On this date in 2002, the first African-American woman to chair the Association of Community Colleges Trustees was elected.
December 16 2002
Episode 		  Racism continues in Minnesota!
On this date in 2002 hate crimes continued against Blacks in Minnesota.
December 19 2002
Episode 		  Central Park Jogger case dismissed!
On this date in 2002, A New York judge dismissed the convictions in the “Central Park Jogger” rape case.
December 20 2002
Episode 		  Trent Lott resigns from Senate post!
On this date in 2002, Trent Lott, a White Republican senator from Mississippi, resigned his position as Senate majority leader.
February 28 2003
Episode 		  Another Klan member guilty of murder!
*On this date in 2003, another Ku Klux Klan member was convicted of killing a black man in 1966.
June 16 2003
Episode 		  Racial disturbance in Benton Harbor, Michigan!
On this date in 2003, a racial disturbance occurred in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
June 23 2003
Episode 		  Supreme Court reaffirms affirmative action!
On this date in 2003, the U.
July 8 2003
Episode 		  President Bush condemns American Slavery!
*On this date in 2003, President George W.
July 25 2003
Episode 		  Bush pledges support to Liberia!
On this date in 2003, American President George W.
July 29 2003
Episode 		  Police brutality case deadlocked!
On this date in 2003 in Los Angeles, a Superior Court judge declared a deadlocked jury in a police brutality case against a white former officer and the case was dismissed.
September 14 2003
Episode 		  Serena and Venus Williams' sister killed!
*On this date in 2003 the eldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was killed in a Los Angeles suburb.
September 25 2003
Episode 		  Nigerian woman acquitted of death by stoning in adultery case
On this date in 2003, a Nigerian woman won an acquittal in court, avoiding death by stoning.
September 27 2003
Episode 		  Child slaves rescued from Nigeria!
On this date in 2003, 116 Black African boys were rescued from a slave labor camp in Nigeria.
October 1 2003
Episode 		  White television commentator resigns over racist statements!
On this date in 2003, white conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN television over racial comments he directed at African-American athlete Donovan McNabb.
October 9 2003
Episode 		  Board game uses black stereotypes and lawsuit bans it
On this date in 2003, protesters gathered outside an Urban Outfitters store in Philadelphia, PA.
October 10 2003
Episode 		  Lynching monument unveiled in Duluth, MN!
On this date in 2003, a monument dedicated to three lynched Black men was unveiled in Duluth, MN.
October 15 2003
Episode 		  Satchmo's house opened to the public!
On this date in 2003, The Louis Armstrong House opened to the public for the first time as a historic house museum.
November 17 2003
Episode 		  Black sniper convicted of murder!
On this date in 2003, a jury convicted John Allen Muhammad of capital murder.
November 30 2003
Episode 		  Another black man dead from a police beating!
On this date in 2003, another black man died after being beaten by police in Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 10 2003
Episode 		  Life sentence for Florida boy changed!
On this date in 2003, A Florida appeals court threw out a black boy's conviction for beating a 6-year-old playmate to death.
December 10 2003
Episode 		  Liberian conflict goes on!
On this date in 2003, the Liberian conflict continued.
December 15 2003
Episode 		  Strom Thurmond's family verifies black relative!
On this date in 2003, Strom Thurmond's family acknowledged a California woman's claim that she was his illegitimate Black daughter.
December 23 2003
Episode 		  Young African-American sniper goes to prison!
On this date in 2003, a Virginia jury in the Washington-area sniper case sentenced Lee Boyd Malvo (a young African-American) to life in prison.
January 6 2004
Episode 		  New York City settles police brutality case!
On this date in 2004, the city of New York agreed to pay $3 million to the family of Amadou Diallo.
February 23 2004
Episode 		  American Marines land in Haiti!
*On this date in 2004, Fifty U.
February 29 2004
Episode 		  Jean-Bertrand Aristide flees Haiti!
*On this date in 2004, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled Haiti.
March 4 2004
Episode 		  White Judge quits over racist remarks!
*On this date in 2004 white racism caused a Richmond, Virginia General District Judge to step down.
March 28 2004
Episode 		  Condoleezza Rice say "NO" to testimony!
*On this date in 2004 National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said she will not testify publicly in front of the independent September 11th commission.
April 24 2004
Episode 		  The act of American racism remains, black man lynched in Mississippi!
On this date in 2004 an African-American man was found hanged from tree in Mississippi.
May 17 2004
Episode 		  Bill Cosby remarks during Brown v BOE ceremony!
On this date in 2004, entertainer and philanthropist Bill Cosby made controversial public comments about African-Americans.
August 14 2004
Episode 		  Sudanese people promised government help!
*On this date in 2004 Sudan’s President pledged to end violence in the western Darfur region of the African country.
September 9 2004
Episode 		  America reveals genocide in the Sudan
On this date in 2004, the United States accused Arab militias of genocide against the Black African population in Sudan.
October 8 2004
Episode 		  First Black woman wins Nobel Peace Prize.
On this date in 2004, the first African woman won the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 15 2004
Episode 		  White Supremacists continue to recruit!
On this date in 2004, it was reported that one of the largest white supremacist groups in the country was recruiting members in Duluth, Minnesota.
January 7 2005
Episode 		  Triggerman of civil rights murders arrested!
On this date in 2005 an alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in connection with the 1964 shooting deaths of James Chaney, a 21-year-old Black Mississippian, and two white Jewish New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 in Philadelphia, Miss.
March 2 2005
Episode 		  Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Jackie!
*On This date in 2005, Jackie Robinson was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
April 16 2005
Episode 		  A legal truce! Rosa Parks/Outkast.
On this date in 2005, the Rosa Parks OutKast court case was settled.
May 5 2005
Episode 		  Lena Baker is pardoned, bringing closure to the family
On this date in 2005, Lena Baker, an African-American woman, was pardoned posthumously for a murder.
June 13 2005
Episode 		  Senates apologizes over lynching neglect . . .
On this date in 2005, the United States Senate issued a resolution addressing their delay in voting against American lynching.
June 21 2005
Episode 		  Some justice at last in the Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney case.
On this date in 2005, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter in Mississippi.
July 31 2005
Episode 		  Black teen murdered by whites in England
On this date in 2005, a Black teenager, was murdered in England with an ax in a hate crime.
September 29 2005
Episode 		  Former Secretary of Education makes racist comments!
On this date in 2005, radio talk show host William Bennett was quoted as making racially divisive statements about African Americans in relation to abortion and crime.
October 27 2005
Episode 		  Race riot begins in France.
On this date in 2005, racial rioting began in France.
December 12 2005
Episode 		  Tookie Williams' clemency denied!
On this date in 2005, California Gov.
December 16 2005
Episode 		  Morgan Freeman wants end to Black History Month
On this date in 2005, Actor
October 20 2006
Episode 		  Tuskegee Air heritage to be officially taught!
On this date in 2006, the heritage of the Tuskegee Airmen became a component of the classroom curriculum of the United States Air Force Officers Training School.
November 8 2006
Episode 		  America elects its first Muslim congressman.
On this date in 2006, Minneapolis, MN, elected the nation's first Muslim member of Congress, and the state's first nonwhite representative in Washington.
November 8 2006
Episode 		  Massachusetts elects its first black governor.
On this date in 2006, Massachusetts elected the first black person to win the state's highest office in its 218-year history.
November 13 2006
Episode 		  Ground broken for MLK Jr. memorial
On this date in 2006, the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Martin Luther King Jr.
November 17 2006
Episode 		  White comedian insults African American's in LA!
On this date in 2006, a popular white comedian openly, publicly, and repeatedly insulted Blacks at a comedy club in Los Angeles.
January 16 2007
Episode 		  Virginia legislator makes public racist remark!
On this date in 2007, a Virginia state legislator said black people "should get over" slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize "for killing Christ.
February 27 2007
Episode 		  Brown University reveals their debt to slavery!
*On this date in 2007, Brown University promised to raise $10 million dollars in amending their role in benefiting from American slavery of Africans.
April 5 2007
Episode 		  Don Imus makes racist slur on the air!
On this date in 2007, white radio personality Don Imus used racist and sexist statement on the air.
June 10 2007
Episode 		  First Black win Formula 1 Race!
On this date in 2007, the first Black driver won a Formula One (F1) Motorsport Race.
June 21 2007
Episode 		  The original voyage of the Amistad is replicated
On this date in 2007, a ship bearing the name Amistad once again sailed the Atlantic.
September 19 2007
Episode 		  David Bowie supports the "Jena Six".
*On this date in 2007 David Bowie donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for the “Jena Six”.
September 20 2007
Episode 		  Protest in Jena, Louisiana!
*On this date in 2007, Thousands of chanting civil rights demonstrators filled the streets of Jena Louisiana.
September 21 2007
Episode 		  Shooting at Delaware State University!
*On this date in 2007, two students were shot and wounded at Delaware State University.
September 30 2007
Episode 		  Football player murdered.
On this date in 2007, a Black University of Memphis football player was fatally shot on campus in what police believe was a targeted attack.
December 18 2007
Episode 		  ANC elects Zuma as President!
On this date in 2007, Jacob Zuma was elected leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC).
January 8 2008
Episode 		  New Jersey officially and publicly apologizes for slavery.
On this date in 2008, New Jersey officially expressed regret for its role in "perpetuating the institution of slavery.
January 21 2008
Episode 		  Whites protest Martin Luther King Day.
*On this date in 2008 About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr.
May 17 2008
Episode 		  NAACP chooses new President!
*On this date in 2008, the NAACP chose Ben Todd Jealous as the organization's next president.
June 4 2008
Episode 		  first black man wins presidential nomination.
On this date in 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won the Democratic presidential nomination.
October 3 2008
Episode 		  O.J. Simpson convicted and sentenced!
*On this date in 2008, O.
November 4 2008
Episode 		  America elects its first black president!
On this date in 2008
January 20 2009
Episode 		  First African American President of America!
On this date in 2009 the first African American became president of the United States of America.
January 9 2010
Episode 		  Senator apologizes for racial remark.
*On this date in 2010 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized publicly for a racial remark he made in 2008.
 
 

    

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