#BlackFriday May 2

1920
Inaugural game of National Negro Baseball League

1844
Inventor Elijah J McCoy born Colchester Ontario Canada
''The Real.McCoy''

1961
Etta James 3rd Billboard Hot 100 single ''All I Could Do Was Cry''

1845
Marcus Allen 1st African-American admitted to bar in Massachusetts

1968
Poor People's March led by Ralph Abernathu

1924
Theodore Bikel born Vienna Austria

1963
1000 Black children peacefully protest Segregation Birmingham AL

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#BlackFriday April 25

1944
United Negro College Fund founded
Tuskegee Institute President Frederick Patterson letter in 1943 as a catalyst

1950
Charles ''Chuck'' Cooper 1st Black player drafted to NBA

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#BlackFriday April 18

1877
The American Nicodemus Town Company founded by six African American settlers in northwestern Kansas

1966
Bill Russell 1st Black coach in NBA, Boston Celtics

1977
Alex Haley wins Pulitzer Prize ''Roots''

1983
Alice Walker 1st African-American woman winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1980
Independence Day Zimbabwe, Bob Marley performs at celebration

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1990
Idaho became 47th state to recognize Jan. 15 as Martin Luther King, Jr Day

1997
Museum of African American History opens Detroit MI

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1948
Jackie Robinson signed contract, 1st African American in Major League Baseball

1966
Emmett Ashford 1st Black umpire in Major Leave Baseball

1967
Harlem NYC voters re-elect Adam Clayton Powell Jr after Congress unconstitutional expelled him

1968
President Johnson signed 1968 Housing Act

1972
Benjamin L. Hooks becomes 1st African American in Federal Communications Commission

1988
Willie Davis Burton becomes 1st African American Oscar winner for sound (Bird)

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#BlackFriday April 11

1881
Spellman College open Atlanta Ga

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1915
McKinley Morganfield Muddy Waters born Rolling Fork MS

1928
Marguerite Annie Johnson, Maya Angelou born St Louis MO

1968
Republic of Senegal Independence Day

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#BlackFriday

1870
Jonathan S Wright 1st Black state Supreme Court Justice in South Carolina

1966
Bill Russell becomes 1st African American coach of NBA team, Boston Celtics

1972
2 surviving Soledad Bros found not guilty by all White jury

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#BlackFriday March 21

1965
Alabama Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery

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#BlackFriday March 14

1838
Protest of the Pennsylvania Reform Convention of 1837, Philadelphia PA

1917
First training camp for colored officers established by U.S. Army Des Moines, Iowa

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#BlackFriday March 7

1965
Bloody Sunday
Civil Rights March
Selma-Montgomery Alabama
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#BlackFriday February 28

1879
Exodus of 1879, Exoduster Movement
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1704
Elias Neau opened school for Blacks in NYC

1708
Slave revolt Newton Long Island NY

1932
Richard Spikes invented/patented automatic gear shift
US patent 1,889,814

1967
Private First Class James Anderson Jr dies

1984
Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys

1990
Philip Emeagwali awarded Gordon Bell Prize

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#BlackFriday February 21

1965
Malcolm X assassinated
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1865
North Carolina Legislature adjourns to mark death of Frederick Douglass

1883
John H Smyth speech "The African in Africa and the African in America"

1961
Otis Boykin patents Electrical Resistor

1987
Black Rebellion Tampa FL

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#BlackFriday February 14

1867
Moorehouse College organized Augusta GA

1936
National Negro college organized Chicago IL

1957
Southern Christian Leadership conference established at meeting New Orleans LA

1997
Dr Lonnie George Johnson patents SuperSoaker

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#BlackFriday February 7

1926
1st day of Negro History Week, created by Carter G Woodson, expanded to #BlackHistoryMonth in 1976

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@DrCAleaseSmith
Same.
They spew quiet part out loud these past ~10 years.
Some haters + the cynics who lead them use this to justify enslaving us + torturing us in the past, present, + future.
#RFK
#xenophobia
#BlackFriday
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#racism
#uspol