1990
Idaho became 47th state to recognize Jan. 15 as Martin Luther King, Jr Day

1997
Museum of African American History opens Detroit MI

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1948
Jackie Robinson signed contract, 1st African American in Major League Baseball

1966
Emmett Ashford 1st Black umpire in Major Leave Baseball

1967
Harlem NYC voters re-elect Adam Clayton Powell Jr after Congress unconstitutional expelled him

1968
President Johnson signed 1968 Housing Act

1972
Benjamin L. Hooks becomes 1st African American in Federal Communications Commission

1988
Willie Davis Burton becomes 1st African American Oscar winner for sound (Bird)

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#BlackFriday April 11

1881
Spellman College open Atlanta Ga

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1915
McKinley Morganfield Muddy Waters born Rolling Fork MS

1928
Marguerite Annie Johnson, Maya Angelou born St Louis MO

1968
Republic of Senegal Independence Day

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1870
Jonathan S Wright 1st Black state Supreme Court Justice in South Carolina

1966
Bill Russell becomes 1st African American coach of NBA team, Boston Celtics

1972
2 surviving Soledad Bros found not guilty by all White jury

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#BlackFriday March 21

1965
Alabama Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery

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#BlackFriday March 14

1838
Protest of the Pennsylvania Reform Convention of 1837, Philadelphia PA

1917
First training camp for colored officers established by U.S. Army Des Moines, Iowa

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#BlackFriday March 7

1965
Bloody Sunday
Civil Rights March
Selma-Montgomery Alabama
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#BlackFriday February 28

1879
Exodus of 1879, Exoduster Movement
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1704
Elias Neau opened school for Blacks in NYC

1708
Slave revolt Newton Long Island NY

1932
Richard Spikes invented/patented automatic gear shift
US patent 1,889,814

1967
Private First Class James Anderson Jr dies

1984
Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys

1990
Philip Emeagwali awarded Gordon Bell Prize

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#BlackFriday February 21

1965
Malcolm X assassinated
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1865
North Carolina Legislature adjourns to mark death of Frederick Douglass

1883
John H Smyth speech "The African in Africa and the African in America"

1961
Otis Boykin patents Electrical Resistor

1987
Black Rebellion Tampa FL

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