Events in history help complete the understanding of African American history. This month-by-month outline of historic dates relevant to South Carolina African American history offers readers a perspective that compliments the biographical data on African American leaders. This timeline view helps complete the picture of the African American impact on South Carolina history.
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1 | Carl Lewis, athlete, born in 1961. |
17 | Billie Holliday, singer, died in 1959. |
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2 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed. Thurgood Marshall born in 1908. |
18 | Lemuel Hayes, first Black Congregationalist minister, born in 1753. |
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First African-American baseball player in the major leagues, Jackie Robinson, was named to Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. |
19 | Patricia R. Harris named secretary of health, education and welfare in 1979. |
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4 | Independence Day Tuskegee Institute established in 1881. Slavery abolished in New York in 1827. |
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First U.S. Victory in Korea was won by African-American troops in the 24th Infantry Regiment, in 1950. |
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5 | Arthur Ashe, won the men's Wimbledon singles championship in 1975. |
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14th Amendment ratified in 1868. |
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Althea Gibson won Wimbledon in 1957. |
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Abraham Lincoln read the first draft of Emancipation Proclamation to the cabinet, in 1861. |
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7 | Margaret Walker, writer, was born in 1915. |
23 | Louis Tompkins Wright, physician, was born in 1924. |
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Venus Williams wins Wimbledon in 2000. |
24 | Mary Church Terrell, educator, died in 1954. |
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Francis L. Cardozo installed as South Carolina's Secretary of State in 1868. |
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Garrett T. Morgan, inventor of the gas mask, rescues six from gas-filled tunnel in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. |
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Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, was born in 1875. |
26 | Patrick Francis Healy, first African-American awarded a Ph.D. in 1865. President Truman banned discrimination in the armed services in 1948. |
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Civil rights activist W.E.B. Dubois founded the Niagara Movement in 1905. |
27 | Inventor A.P. Abourne was awarded patent for refining coconut oil in 1880. |
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12 | Bill Cosby, entertainer, was born in 1937. |
28 | The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868. |
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13 | Continental Congress excluded slavery from Northwest Territory in 1787. |
29 | The first National Convention of Black Women was held in Boston MA, in 1895. |
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14 | George Washington Carver National Monument dedicated in Joplin MO, in 1951. |
30 | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, activist and politician, was elected congressman from Harlem in 1945. |
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15 | Pompey Lamb, noted spy, aids the American Revolutionary War effort, 1779. |
31 | JWhitney Young, an Executive Director of the National Urban League, was born in 1921. |
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V. A. Johnson, first Black female to argue before the US Supreme Court, born, 1882. |
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