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 | Sojourner Truth began anti-slavery activist career in 1843. |
16 | Denmark Vesey led slave rebellion in South Carolina, 1822. |
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2 | JT. Thomas Fortune, jounalist, died in 1928. |
17 | Thomas Ezekiel Miller, congressman, was born in 1849. |
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| Nannie Burroughs founded National Training School for Women, 1909. |
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4 | Arna Bontemps, writer and educator, died in 1973. |
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Juneteenth - African-American Independence Day. Juneteenth lauds the end of slavery in the United States |
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5 | In 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded his doctorate from Boston University. |
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Dr. Lloyd A. Hall, pioneer in food chemistry, was born in Illinois, 1894. |
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Congress of Racial Equality founded in 1942. |
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Arthur Ashe, tennis champion, led UCLA to NCAA tennis championship, 1965. |
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7 | Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks was born in 1917. |
22 | Joe Louis became youngest world heavyweight boxing champion in 1937. |
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Supreme Court banned segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants in 1953. |
23 | Track star Wilma Rudolph was born in 1909. |
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Meta-Vaux Warick Fuller, sculptor, was born in 1877. |
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John R. Lynch became first African- American to preside over deliberations of a national political party in 1884. |
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Hattie McDaniel, first Black person to win an Oscar (for Best Supporting Actress in "Gone With The Wind," 1940), was born in 1898. |
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Joe Louis defeated Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium in 1935. |
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11 | Hazel Dorothy Scott, classical pianist and singer, was born in 1920. |
26 | James Weldon Johnson died in 1938. |
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Medger Evers, civil rights activist, was assassinated, 1963. |
27 | Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and novelist, was born, 1872. |
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Thurgood Marshall appointed to U.S. Supreme Court in 1967.
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28 | Organization for Afro-American Unity founded in 1964. |
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Flag Day |
29 | James Van Der Zee, photographer, was born in Lenox, MA, in 1886. |
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15 | Errol Garner, singer and musician, was born in 1923. |
30 | Lena Horne, actress, vocalist and activist, born, 1917. |
