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OCT 12 - 28, 2020
OCT. 22
1936 – Political activist and Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale is born in Liberty, Texas. 1953 – Clarence S. Green is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery as the first-ever African American neurosurgeon.
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1940 – Soccer legend Pelé is born in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 1947 – The NAACP issues a forOCT. 25 mal petition against racism in America to the Unit1940 – Bened Nations. jamin O. Davis, 1958 – Famed academic and author Michael Sr. is promoted to Eric Dyson is born in Detroit. brigadier general, becoming the first African American OCT. 24 1855 – James Henry Conyers, the first Black general in the U.S. person admitted to the United States Naval Acade- Army. 1997 – The my, is born in Charleston, South Carolina. Million Woman 1992 – Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston March is held in becomes first African American to manage a team Philadelphia. to the World Series title.
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1911 – Gospel music great Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans. 1952 – Actress Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award, dies of breast cancer at 57 in Los Angeles.
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OCT. 27
1891 – Black inventor Philip B. Downing receives patent for the street letter box, a precursor of the modern-day mailbox. 1922 – Famed actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee is born in Cleveland.
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OCT. 28
1798 – Abolitionist Levi Coffin, known as the “President of the Underground Railroad,” is born in Guilford County, North Carolina. 1914 – The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, founded at Howard University, is incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. 1981 – Edward M. McIntyre is elected the first African American mayor of Augusta, Georgia. WI
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