1 33 - I ra AId ridge ac­
claimed in London for his pro­
trayal of Othello.
19 3 - Arthur Ashe is born
in Richmond, Va. One of the first What coach signed Jackie Ro­
African, American male tennis binson to his first major league
tars, he will be the first African contracrl
American to win 8. spot on the
American Davis Cup tennis
m, th first to win the U.S. -
Open and the men's singl title
at Wimbledon, in 1975.
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1947 - Brooklyn Dodger
Jackie Robinson became the
first Black to play major league
baseball.
1950 - Supreme Court first
ordered admission of Blacks to
an all white school.
Which college for women,
sponsored by Rockefeller, opened
in Atlanta in 1881?
1816 - Richard Allen be­
came first Bisl.op of the African
American Methodist Epioscopal
Church.
1825-1925 - Peter Hum­
phries Clark of Cincinnati, Ohio,
personally trained several gen­
erations of Black teachers.
1955 - Roy Wilkins is
elected the AACP's executive
secretary following the death of
Walter White.
1966 - Emmett Ashford be­
came first Black umpire in the
major . league .
1968 - Sacramento Theater
Company dedicated Lost In The
� .. ars to the assassinated Martin
Luther King Jr. .
1974 - The University of
Maryland dedicated the Ella
Fitzgerald School of the Per­
forming Arts.
Who wrote the book entitled
"The Origin of Race and Color"?,
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1861 - Confederate attack
on Fort Summer opened Civil
War.
1898 -- Dr. Percy L. Julian,
who developed synthetic corti-
Hem and phy 0 tigim , wa
rn.
194 - Ralph Bunche was
m de acting UN mediator in
Palestm .
1 - Lucy C. Laney, edu-
cator, w born.
1 -Th fi
cal chool op n
University.
1 76 - Edoni Lewis, ulp-
t , had . u ful howing at
Centenni I Ex ition.
1950 - H' torian Carter G.
Woodson, author of The Mi edu­
cation of the egro, died.
1 - Sojourn r Truth
po t om n' righ con-
vention.
1 2 - Slavery w abel­
. hed in th D' trict of Colum­
bi .
1 - Ebenez r Don C rl
B tt w named Minis r of
Haiti.
1885 - Granville T. Woods,
famou inventor, w awarded
patent for nsmi ion of m -.
by electricity.
1973 - Ka m Abdul.Jab­
bar (Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor)
i born in New York City. He
will be one of the fin t basket­
ball players in history, first with
UCLA, then with the Milwau­
kee Bucks and, from 1975 to hiS
retirement in 1990, with the Loa
Angel Lakers. All-time 1 d­
ing scorer in the NBA, Abdul­
Jabal' will lead the Lakers to five
NBA championships, including
back-to-back title in 1987 and
1988.
In what city was Nat Turner
hanged?
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Howard
In what tate' Tuskeg�� In­
titute located1
The fir t blac J.. mule III II If! UII
( adem I � ard, tdnev POll; r
How old was W.E.B. DuBoi
when he diedF .
1889 - A a Phillip Ran­
dolph, founder and president of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, was born in Crescent
Way, Fla.
1896 - Booker T. Washing­
ton received honorary degree
from Harvard University.
1907 - Harlem Hospital
opens in New York with 150
beds. It will become one of the
early leading African American
hospitals.
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10th - Spelman College.
11 th - Martin R. Delany.
12th - Ethel Waters.
13th - Branch Rickey.
. 14th - Ninety Five.
15th - Alabama.
16th -Jerusalem, VA.
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1775 - First abolition soci­
ety was organized in Philadel-
phia. .
1940 - A breakthrough oc­
cured when Time Magazine
hired George Streator as its first
African-American reporter.
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several art fellowship and
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