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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: April 21:
•1997—Kenyan Lamuck Aguta wins 101st Boston Marathon

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: April 21
•1943—Novelist, playwright, critic, Kole Omotoso, was born Akure Nigeria. He wrote from a Yoruba perspective and incorporated Yoruba folklore.
•1974—Lee Elder is 1st AfricanAmerican professional golfer to qualify for Masters Tournament.

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OF INTEREST: History has been made! The first Black woman will be sitting on the US Supreme Court. The honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice.

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For the 1st time ever, the highest prize in architecture is won by a Black architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso!
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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 11:
•1789—Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant began laying out Washington DC.
•1959—“Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry became 1st play performed on Broadway written by an AfricanAmerican woman. Sidney Poitier & Claudia McNeil starred.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 10
•1913—Harriet Tubman died, Auburn NY. Born enslaved as Harriet Ross c.1819 (MD), Tubman, the “Back Moses,” was conductor in Underground Railroad, helping approx +300 people escape slavery, even after 1850 Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 10
•1845—Hallie Quinn Brown, orator, activist & educator, born, a free Black woman. 1 of 1st Black women to graduate of Wilberforce U (1873). Was graduate of Chautauqua Lecture School (1886). Wilberforce awarded her honorary MA (1890) & JD (1936)

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 9
•1841—US Supreme Court ruled that the 39 survivors of Amistad Mutiny (of 53 Sierra Leonians captured by Portuguese slave traders & transported on Spanish ship Amistad) be released. Private donations help them return to Sierra Leone, Jan 1842.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 8:
•1945—Phyllis Mae Daley, the 1st of 4 AfricanAmerican Navy nurses to serve active duty in World War II, receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 7:
•2016—Lieutenant Commander Paul Smith, from Jamaica, is 1st Black person to attain rank of Commander in Royal Canadian Navy’s 106-year history.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 7
•1965— Bloody Sunday. John Lewis led march from Selma to Montgomery AL, intended as peaceful protest for Voting Rights. Yet Police awaited them on the far side of Edmund Pettis Bridge, brutally stopping them.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: February 15:
•1968—Henry Lewis becomes 1st Black to lead symphony orchestra in the USA.
•2011—American poet & author, Maya Angelou, awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: February 15:
•1851—Black abolitionists invaded Boston courtroom & rescued Shadrach Minkins, an escaped slave.
•1964—Musician Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly” becomes his 1st number one record

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AFRICANA HISTORY, Feb 15:
•1804—New Jersey began to abolish slavery
•1848—Benjamin Roberts filed 1st school integration lawsuit when his daughter Sarah was barred from white school in Boston

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: February 14:
•1867— Morehouse College, a historically black men’s liberal arts college, founded in Atlanta GA.

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AFRICANA HISTORY, Feb 14:
•1829—Solomon G. Brown, born. The son of former enslaved parents, himself born a free man, this poet, lecturer, & scientific technician was 1st Black employee of the Smithsonian Institution (1852), working there 54 years, until he retired in 1906.

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TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: Feb 14:
•1817/18—Frederick Douglass (d.1895), who escaped from slavery in Maryland to become an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer, statesman, known as "The Great Emancipator," born on or about this date, Talbot County MD.

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AFRICANA HISTORY, Feb 12:
• 2009—1st Black, all-female flight crew in USA:
Capt Rachelle Jones Kerr, 1st Officer Stephanie Grant, attendants Robin Rogers & Diana Galloway flew/attended Atlantic Southeast Airlines’ Flight 5202 (Atlanta-Nashville) & 5106 (Nashville-Atlanta).

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AFRICANA HISTORY Feb 12:
•1909—Nat'l Assoc for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded. Spurred by growing racial violence & race riots in Springfield IL (1908), Black leaders formed new civil rights organization & chose Feb 12 to honor 100th anniv of Pres Lincoln’s birth.

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AFRICANA HISTORY: Feb 11
•1977—Alexander Clifford Jr, confirmed as 1st Black Secretary of State in USA.
•1990—Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer & leader of African National Congress party (ANC), released from Robben Island Prison after 27 years for anti-Apartheid activism.