Atlantic Southeast Airlines flights 5202 (Atlanta to Nashville) and 5106 (Nashville to Atlanta) became the first commercial jet revenue flights to be operated by an all-female all-African-American crew, on February 12. Captain Rachelle Jones and Fir ...
Posted Tuesday, March 3rd 2009 at 6:55AM
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Freedom Rides
Background and Summary
Civil rights activists called “freedom riders” rode on interstate buses around the segregated South on “freedom rides” to test results of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Vir ...
Posted Thursday, January 31st 2008 at 12:27PM
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Harlem Renaissance
Background and Summary
The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and The New Negro Movement, refers to the flowering of Black cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s that began in Harl ...
Posted Monday, February 11th 2008 at 3:51PM
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Juneteenth Day
Background and Summary
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is an annual holiday officially recognized in 14 states of the United States. Celebrated on June 19, it commemorates the announcement of the abolition ...
Posted Monday, February 4th 2008 at 3:50PM
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Kwanzaa
Background and Summary
Kwanzaa, or Kwaanza, is a week-long festival and holiday celebrated primarily in the United States that honors Black people’s African heritage. It is observed from December 26 to January 1 each year.
Kwanzaa ...
Posted Tuesday, February 26th 2008 at 11:54AM
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Leutrell Osborne grew up in Washington D.C. seeking adventure and burning with desire to achieve great things. He finds the keys to making his dreams come true are with the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife and life partner Rose he strikes o ...
Posted Tuesday, February 14th 2012 at 6:47PM
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MARCH 5, 1959- 21 TEENAGED NEGRO BOYS WHO WERE HOUSED AT THE STATE RAN WRIGHTSVILLE NEGRO BOYS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL WERE HOLOCAUSTICALLY MASSACRED IN ONE OF THE WORST FIRES EVER IN ARKANSAS HISTORY. THIS EVENT IS DIRECTLY TIED TO THE LITTLE ROCK NINE A ...
Posted Tuesday, May 5th 2009 at 4:03PM
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Background and Summary
The March on Washington (for Jobs and Freedom) was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. During the march, Martin Luther King, ...
Posted Wednesday, December 19th 2007 at 5:59PM
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Background and Summary
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., and was intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on ...
Posted Wednesday, December 19th 2007 at 6:08PM
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The basketball and hip-hop culture fusion born in 1984 that is known now as The "Dunkadelic-Era" In America, 1984-Present. The "Dunkadelic-Era" is celebrating its 25th Anniversary during the year 2009 (1984-2009).
To honor the 25th Anniversary of ...
Posted Monday, March 16th 2009 at 6:03AM
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The City of New York and the Honorable Mayor Michael Bloomberg have proclaimed June as NBHHCM 2010 (National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month).
The City of Baltimore was the first US city in June 2009 to proclaim NBHHCM. Former Mayor of Baltimo ...
Posted Sunday, June 13th 2010 at 12:59PM
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The City of Philadelphia became the 2nd US city to proclaim June 2010 as National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month. Philadelphia is one of the Top 3 cities in America that personify the hoops and hip-hop culture. ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 6:01PM
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The State of Maryland and Governor Martin O'Malley became the first US State to Proclaim June as NBHHCM 2010 (National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month). The City of Baltimore in June 2009 became the first US City to proclaim NBHHCM 2009.
The Ci ...
Posted Monday, June 21st 2010 at 1:11AM
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