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06011843 Sojourner Truth left New York and began her career as an
S0601     antislavery activist.
S06011835 Sixth national black convention met in Philadelphia with th
S0601     irty-five delegates from six states and the District of Col
S0601     umbia.
S06011864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of black Re
S0601     publicans, assassinated in his home by white terrorists. Di
S0601     ll had allegedly  made "incendiary speeches" to South Carol
S0601     ina blacks.
S06011864 Florida General Assembly (nineteen blacks, fifty-seven whit
S0601     es) met in Tallahassee.
S06011868 Texas constitutional convention (nine blacks, eighty-one wh
S0601     ites) met in Austin.
S06011921 Race riot, Tulas, Oklahoma. Twenty-one whites and sixty bla
S0601     cks were killed.
S06011966 Approximately 2,400 persons attended White House Conference
S0601     on Civil Rights.
S06021834 Fifth national black convention met in New York with fifty
S0602     delegates from eight states.
S06021975 James A Healy, first black Roman Catholic bishop, consecra
S0602     ted in cathedral at Portland, Maine.
S06021899 Black Americans observed day of fasting called by National
S0602     Afro-American Council to protest lynching and racial massa
S0602     cres.
S06021943 Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron flew first combat mission, st
S0602     rafing enemy positions on the heavily fortified Italian Is
S0602     land of Pantelleria.
S06021967 Race riot, Roxbury section of Boston.
S06031833 Fourth national black convention met in Philadelphia with
S0603     sixty-two delegates from eight states.  Abraham D. Shadd of
S0603     Pennsylvania was elected president.
S06031919 Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago), the first old-line
S0603     legal reserve company organized by blacks in the North, inc
S0603     orporated. U.S. Supreme Court )Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth
S0603     of Virginia) banned segregation in interstate bus travel.
S06031949 Wesley A. Brown became the first black graduate of Annapolis
S0603     Naval Academy.
S06041832 Third national black convention met in Philadelphia with tw
S0604     enty-nine delegates from eight states.  Henry Sipkins of New
S0604     York was elected president.
S06041973 Death of Arna Bontemps (72), writer and educator, in Nashvil
S0604     le, Tennessee.
S06041972 Angela Davis acquitted by white jury in San Jose, Calif., of
S0604     charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shootout.
S06051872 Republican National Convention met in Philadelphia with
S0605     substantial black representation from Southern States.  For
S0605     the first time in American History, three blacks addressed
S0605     a major national political convention: Robert B. Elliot, Ch
S0605     airman of the South Carolina  delegation; Joseph H. Rainy,
S0605     South Carolina delegate; John R. Lynch, Mississippi delegate.
S06051940 The American Negro Threatre was organized by Frederick O'
S0605     Neal and Abram Hill.
S06051950 U.S. Supreme Court undermined the legal foundations of seg
S0605     regation in three landmark cases, Sweatt v. Painter, McLau
S0605     rin v. Oklahoma State Regents and Henderson v. United States.
S06051956 Federal court ruled that racial segregation on Montgomery c
S0605     ity buses violated Constitution.
S06051969 Race riot, Hartford, Connecticut.
S06051973 Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago elected to Congress.  She suc
S0605     ceeded her late husband.
S06061831 Second national black convention met in Philadelphia.  The
S0606     re were  fifteen delegates from five states.
S06061966 James Meredith wounded by white sniper as he walked along U
S0606     .S. Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi, on second day of
S0606     220-mile voter registration march from Memphis to Jackson.
S0606     March was continued on June 7 by Martin Luther King Jr., Flo
S0606     yd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and other civil rights wor
S0606     kers.  It ended on June 26 with rally of some thirty thousand
S0606     at Mississippi state capitol. During the three-week march, C
S0606     armichael launched the Black Power movement.
S06061977 Joseph Lawson Howze installed as bishop of the Roman Cathol
S0606     ic diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi.
S06071863 Three regiments and small detachment of white troops repul
S0607     sed division of Texans in hand-to-hand battle at Milliken's
S0607     Bend, Louisiana.
S06081953 U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in Washington, D.C.,
S0608     restaurants.
S06081968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
S0608     , captured at London airport.
S06091948 Oliver W. Hill elected to Richmond, Va., City Council.
S06101899 Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks founded
S0610     in Cincinnati.
S06101854 James Augustine Healy, first black American Roman Catholic
S0610     bishop, ordained a priest in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
S0610     Death of Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight champion,
S0610     after an automobile accident near Raleigh.
S06101941 Death of Marcus Garvey (52), London, England.
S06101964 U.S. Senate imposed cloture for first time on a civil rig
S0610     hts measure, ending Southern Filbuster by a vote of 71-29.
S0610     Civil rights bill, with public accommodation and  fair emp
S0610     loyment sections, was signed by President Johnson on July 2.
S06111963 Two black students, escorted by federalized National Guard
S0611     troops, enrolled at University of Alabama despite the oppos
S0611     ition of Gov. George C. Wallace.
S06111963 President kennedy told nation in radio-TV address that seg
S0611     regation  was morally wrong and that it was "time to act in
S0611     the Congress, in your state and local legislature body, and
S0611     ....in all  of our daily lives."
S06111967 Race riot, Tampa, Florida.  National Guard mobilized.
S06121963 Medgar W. Evers (37), NAACP field secretary in Mississippi,
S0612     assassinated in front of his jackson home by a segregationi
S0612     st. Civil rights group demonstrated at Harlem construction
S0612     sites to Protest discrimination in building trades unions.
S0612     Demonstrations and marches were held in metropolitan areas
S0612     in June, July and August to dramatize discontent over hous
S0612     ing, school and job  discrimination.
S06121967 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law banning racial
S0612     inter- marriage was unconstitutional.
S06121967 Race riot, Cincinnati, Ohio.  Three hundred persons were arr
S0612     ested,  and the National Guard was mobilized.
S06131967 Thurgood Marshall, U.S. solicitor general, named to the Su
S0613     preme Court by President Johnson.  He was confirmed by the
S0613     Senate on August 30 and became the first black Supreme Court
S0613     justice.
S06131866 House passed the Fourteenth Amendment which was sent to the
S0613     states for ratification on June 16.
S06131910 William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed min
S0613     ister to  Liberia.
S06141971 Justice Department filed suit against the St. Louis suburb of
S0614     Black Jack, charging the community with illegally using mun
S0614     icipal procedures to block an integrated housing development.
S06151864 Grant outwitted Lee by shifting campaign from Cold Harbor to
S0615     Petersburg.  Surprise attack by Gen. W.F. ("Baldy")  Smith
S0615     succeeded but Smith hesitated and permitted rebels to reinf
S0615     orce their lines. Gen. Charles J. Paine's division spear-head
S0615     ed the attack, knocking mile-wide hole in Petersburg defense
S0615     and capturing 200 of 300 rebels captured that day.  Congress
S0615     passed bill equalizing pay, arms, equipment and medical serv
S0615     ices of black troops.
S06151877 Henry O. Flipper received degree at West Point and became the
S0615     first black graduate.
S06151971 Vernon E. Jordan Jr., former executive director of the Unit
S0615     ed Negro College Fund, appointed executive director of the
S0615     National Urban League.
S06161864 Siege of Petersburg and Richmond began.  Thirty-two black
S0616     infantry regiments and black cavalry regiments were invol
S0616     ved in siege.  Black troops were especially prominent in fo
S0616     llowing engagements:  Deep Bottom, August 14-16; Darbytown
S0616     Road, October 13; Fair Oaks, October 27-28; Hatcher's Run,
S0616     October 27-28.
S06161943 Race riot, Beaumont, Texas.  Two killed.
S06161971 Racial disturbance, Jacksonville, Florida.
S06161969 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the suspension of Adam Clayton
S0616     Powell Jr. form the House of Representatives was unconstitut
S0616     ional.
S06161970 Kennth A Gibson elected mayor of Newark.  Race riot, Miami,
S0616     Florida.
S06171897 William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named minister to
S0617     Haiti.
S06171775 Blacks soldiers fought at Battle of Bunker Hill and Breed's
S0617     Hill. Among the heroes of the battle were Peter Salem and
S0617     Salem Poor.
S06171957 Tuskegee boycott began.  Blacks boycotted city stores in pro
S0617     test against act of state legislature which deprived them of
S0617     municipal votes by placing their homes outside city limits.
S06171972 Frank Wills, Washington security guard, foiled breakin at off
S0617     ices of Democratic National Committee in first event of the
S0617     Watergate conspiracy.
S06181941 President Roosevelt conferred with A. Philip Randolph and ot
S0618     her leaders of the March on Washington movement and urged t
S0618     hem to call off a scheduled demonstration. Randolph refused.
S06181942 Bernard W. Robinson, Havard Medical student, made ensign in
S0618     U.S. Naval Reserve and became first black to win a commission
S0618     in the U.S. Navy.
S06181963 Three thousand black students boycotted Boston public school
S0618     s as protest agaist de facto segregation.
S06181968 Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in sale and rent
S0618     al of housing.
S06191864 In famous duel between the USS Kearsage and the CSS Alabama
S0619     off Cherbourg, France, a brave black sailor, Joachim Pease,
S0619     displayed "marked coolness"and won a Congressional Medal of
S0619     Honor.
S06191868 Maj. Gen. E.R.S. Canby removed the mayor and aldermen of Co
S0619     lumbia, S.C., and made new appointments, including three bl
S0619     acks: C.M. Wilder, Joseph franchise blacks.
S06191953 Albert W. Dent, president of Dillard University, elected
S0619     president of National Health Council.
S0619     Bus Boycott began Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
S06191968 Fifty thousand demonstrators participated in Solidarity Day
S0619     March of Poor People's Campaign.  Marchers walked from Wash
S0619     ington Monument to Lincoln Monument, where they were address
S0619     ed by Vice-president Humphrey, presidental candidate Eugene
S0619     McCarthy, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
S06191969 State troopers ordered to Cairo, Ill., to quell racial dist
S0619     urbances.
S06191971 Mayor declared a state of emergency in Columbus, Ga., racial
S0619     disturbance.
S06201871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Missi
S0620     ssippi.
S0620     Many whites, including doctors, lawyers, ministers and coll
S0620     ege professors, were arrested and jailed in the anti-Klan ca
S0620     mpaign. Of the 930 indicted in Mississippi, 243 were tried an
S0620     d found guilty.  Some 1180 were indicted in South Carolina a
S0620     nd 1849 were indicted in North Carolina.
S06201926 Mordecai W. Johnson became the first black president of Ho
S0620     ward University.
S06201967 Muhammad Ali convicted in Houston, Texas, federal court of
S0620     violating Selective Service Act by refusing induction into
S0620     the armed services. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to
S0620     five years in prison.  Ali, an opponent of the Vietnam War,
S0620     had refused to report for service on grounds that he was a
S0620     Muslim minister.
S06201911 NAACP incorporated in New York.
S061943   National Congress of RAcial Equality organized.
S06211821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church formally org
S0621     anized at meeting in New York City.
S06211915 U.S. Supreme Court (Guinn v United States) said "grandfather
S0621     clauses" in the Oklahoma and Maryland constitutions violated
S0621     the Fifteenth Amendment.
S06211923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to five years in prison after his c
S0621     onviction on charges of using the mail to defraud.  Garvey
S0621     said the charges  were political.
S06211945 Col. B.O. Davis Jr. Named commander of Godman Field (ky.)
S0621     and became the first black to head an Army Air Force base i
S0621     n the United States.
S06221868 Congress readmitted state of Arkansas  on condition that it
S0622     would never change its constitution to disenfranchise blacks.
S06221937 Joe Louis defeated James J. Braddock for heavyweight boxing
S0622     Championship.
S06221949 Ezzard Charles defeated Jersey Joe Walcott for the World he
S0622     avy weight championship.
S06221970 Richard Nixon signed bill extending Voting Rights Act of 1965
S0622     to 1975.
S06231970 Charles Rangel defeated Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic pr
S0623     imary in Harlem, ending the political career of one of the ma
S0623     jor political symbols of the post-World War II period.
S06241884 John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected
S0624     temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first
S0624     black to preside over deliberations of a national political
S0624     party.
S06241885 Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant
S0624     Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia.  He was the f
S0624     irst black American with full membership in the House of Bis
S0624     hops.
S06241898 American troops, including Tenth Cavalry, drove Spanish forc
S0624     es from entrenched positions at La Guasimas, Cuba.
S06241936 Mary McLeod Bethune, founder-president of Bethune-Cookman
S0624     College, named director of Negro Affairs of the National Yo
S0624     uth Administration.  She was the first black woman to recei
S0624     ve a major appointment from the federal government. She edu
S0624     cator held the post until January 1, 1944.
S06241972 the rules committee of the Democratic National Convention ap
S0624     proved the nomination of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke as co-chair
S0624     person of the convention.
S06241968 Resurrection City closed.  More than one hundred residents
S0624     were arrested when they refused to leave site.  Other resid
S0624     ents, including Ralph Abernathy, were arrested during demon
S0624     stration at Capitol. National Guard was mobilized later in
S0624     the day to stop disturbances.
S06251868 Congress readmitted North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisia
S0625     na, Georgia, Alabama and Florida on condition "that the con
S0625     stitutions of said states shall never be amended or changed
S0625     as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens or the United
S0625     States of the right to vote in said states who are entitled
S0625     to vote by the constitutions thereof herein recognized."
S06251935 Joe Louis defeated Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium.
S06251941 President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 which forba
S0625     de racial and religious discrimination in war industries,
S0625     government training programs and government industries.  Ra
S0625     ndolph called off scheduled  march.
S06251975 Mozambique proclaimed independent.
S06261938 James Weldon Johnson died of injuries received in an automo
S0626     bile  accident near his summer home in Wiscosset, Maine.
S06261934 W.E.B. Du Bois resigned from his position at the NAACP in a
S0626     disagreement over policy and racial strategy.
S06261959 Prince Edward County, Va., Board of Supervisors abandoned sc
S0626     hool system to prevent integration.
S06261962 Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance movement began
S0626     in Cario, Illinois.  Demonstrations aganist segregation in
S0626     swimming pool, skating rink and other facilities continued
S0626     for several months.
S06271833 Prudence Crandall, a liberal white woman, arrested for cond
S0627     ucting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecti
S0627     cut.  Academy  was later closed.
S06271914 U.S. signed treaty of commerce with Ethiopia.
S06271967 Race riot, Buffalo, New York.  Two hundred arrested.
S06271872 Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar born in Dayton, Ohio.
S06271979 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Weber v. Kaiser Aluminum and Ch
S0627     emical Corporation that employers and unions can establish
S0627     voluntary programs, including the use of quotas, to aid min
S0627     orities in employment.
S06281874 Freedmen's Bank closed.  Black depositors had some $3 Mill
S0628     ion in the  bank, which had an imposing headquarters in Wash
S0628     ington and branches in various cities President Frederick D
S0628     ouglass said later that the Freedmen's Bank had been "the
S0628     black man's cow and the white man's milk."
S06281770 Quakers, led by Anthony Bennezet, opened a school for black
S0628     s in Philadelphia.
S06281964 Organization for Afo-American Unity founded in New York by
S0628     Malcolm X.
S06281978 U.S. Supreme Court ordered the University of California
S0628     Medical School at Davis to admit Allan P. Bakke in so-called
S0608     reverse discrimination suit.
S06281971 U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the draft evasion
S0628     conviction of Muhammad Ali.
S06291868 Louisiana legislature met in New Orleans. The temporary cha
S0629     irman of the house was a black representative, R.H. Isabelle
S0629     .  Oscar J. Dunn presided over the senate.  Seven of the thir
S0629     ty-six senators were black.  Thirty-five of the 101 represen
S0629     tatives were black.
S06291970 NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood told the NAACP conven
S0629     tion that the Nixon administration was "anti-Negro" and was
S0629     pressing "a calculated Policy" inimical to "the needs and as
S0629     pirations of the large majority" of citizens.
S06291972 U.S. Supreme Court ruled the five-four decision that the de
S0629     ath penalty was cruel and unusual punishment which violated
S0629     the Eighth Amendment. At the time of the ruling, blacks and
S0629     members of other minority groups constituted 483 of the 600
S0629     persons awaiting execution.
S06291972 NAACP annual report said the unemployment of "urban blacks
S0629     in 1971 was worse than at anytime since the great depression
S0629     of the thirties."
S0629     The report also said that more school desegregation occurred
S0629     in 1971 than in any other year since the 1954 school decisi
S0629     on.
S06301881 Henry Highland Garnet, former abolitionist leader and Presb
S0630     yterian minister, named minister to Liberia.  He died in Mo
S0630     nrovia shortly after his arrival.
S06301958 Supreme Court reversed decision of lower court which had con
S0630     firmed $100,000 contempt fine imposed by Alabama on NAACP for
S0630     refusing to  divulge membership.
S06301960 Zaire proclaimed independent.
S06301967 Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. named first black astronaut.
S0630     He was killed during a training flight on December 8, 1967.
S06301974 A black man shot and killed Mrs Martin Luther King Sr. and
S0630     deacon Edward Boykin during church services at Ebenezer Bap
S0630     tist Church, Atlanta.  The assailant, Marcus Chennault of D
S0630     ayton, Ohio, was later convicted and sentenced to death.
S06301978 Larry Doby became manager of the Chicago White Sox baseball
S0630     team. He was fired on October 19.
S06311906 John Hope became the first black president of Morehouse Col
S0631     lege.
S06311951 NAACP began frontal attack on segregation and discrimination
S0631     at elementary and high school levels, arguing that segregati
S0631     on was discrimination in cases before three-judged federal c
S0631     ourts in South  Carolina and Kansas. The South Carolina court
S0631     , with a strong dissent from Judge E. Waites Warning, held t
S0631     hat segregation was not discrimination, June 23.  Kansas Co
S0631     urt ruled that the separate facilities at issue were equal
S0631     but said that segregation had an  adverse effect on black
S0631     children.