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| February 10, 1989--who was the first African American elected as the National chairman for the democratic party |
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Month of February selected as a way to honor the birth of 2 men who drastically altered the future of African Americans
1. issued the Emancipation Proclomation
2. one of nations leading abolitionists |
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Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass |
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| 1966, who was appointed as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This app. made him the first Black Presidential cabinet member |
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| 1967, who became the first black Justice of the US Supreme Court |
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| 1954--the Supreme court rule in what made it illegal to segregate schools. |
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| Brown vs. board of education |
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| 1872--who became the first black to be admitted to the US Naval Academy |
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| On Feb 25, 1870 who of Mississippi became the first black to serve in the US Senate |
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| 1966--who became the first black coach of the Boston Celtics making him the first black coach in the NBA |
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| 1991--who was confirmed to the US Supreme Court |
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| July 17, 1862--Congress approved what in the Union Army |
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| arming blacks as soldiers |
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| Nov 5, 1968--who is the first Black woman elected to the House of Rep. |
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| In the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, who surprised many people by making 4 consecutive gold medals |
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