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The North Star published an editorial against the U.S. war with Mexico. Listen to an excerpt read by Benjamin Bratt.
Themes: African American, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to be elected to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The Georgia State House of Representatives refused to seat elected state representative Julian Bond due to his public statements against the Vietnam War.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Jews in the Warsaw ghetto organized armed self-defense units to oppose deportations to forced-labor camps and to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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When asked at a White House luncheon about "juvenile delinquency," Eartha Kitt responded by talking about the root causes of rebellion, including the Vietnam War and the draft.
Themes: African American, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was executed with the assistance of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
Themes: Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, World History/Global Studies
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Queen Lili`uokalani of the independent kingdom of Hawai`i was overthrown as she was arrested at gunpoint by U.S. Marines.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Pacific Islander, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Demands by Black ministers after the Ebenezer Creek Massacre led to the short-lived land distribution during Reconstruction known as Special Field Order No. 15.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Nearly 3,000 African American men met at the Bethel A.M.E. Church and denounced the American Colonization Society’s proposal to resettle free African Americans in West Africa.
Themes: African American, Slavery and Resistance
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The South Carolina constitutional convention met with a majority of Black delegates, adopting a constitution that provided for all people regardless of race, economic class, or gender.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Social Class
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The New York City Tompkins Square Riot occurred during a devastating economic depression.
Themes: Labor
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A group of African Americans presented a petition for freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery and Resistance
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Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake that took the lives of thousands and displaced even more.
Themes: Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, World History/Global Studies
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The Bread and Roses Strike began in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Themes: Labor
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Vernon Dahmer was killed when the Ku Klux Klan fired bombed his home. This was one day after Dahmer offered to pay the election poll tax for anyone who could not afford it.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing
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Poet and activist Amiri Baraka passed away on Jan. 9, 2014.
Themes: African American, Art & Music, Civil Rights Movements
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Julian Bond was finally sworn in as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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The German Coast Uprising was a strategic military assault against white supremacy by hundreds of enslaved Africans.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery and Resistance
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Zora Neale Hurston, an folklorist, anthropologist, and author, was born in Alabama.
Themes: African American, Women's History
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The Mississippi Constitution was one of the first pieces of legislation that provided a uniform system of free public education for children regardless of race.
Themes: Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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