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1994 – Avowed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of murdering civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963.
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1882 – Famed Black poet and civil rights activist Anne Spencer is born in Henry County, Virginia. 1933 – Walter E. Fauntroy, longtime former delegate to the U.S. Congress and former pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in the District, is born in D.C. 1945 – Reggae music icon Bob Marley is born in Jamaica's Saint Ann Parish. 1993 – Tennis great Arthur Ashe dies in New York City from AIDS-related pneumonia at age 49.
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1920 – The Negro National League, one of several organized Black baseball leagues, is founded. 1989 – Bill White is named president of Major League Baseball's National League, becoming the first Black to head a major professional sports league. 1956 – Autherine Lucy enrolls as a graduate student at the University of Alabama, becoming the first African American ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state.
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1913 – Rosa Parks, the "first lady of civil rights," is born in Tuskegee, Alabama. 1997 – Then-Rep. J.C. Watts becomes the first Black selected to respond to a State of the Union Address. 2006 – NFL great Warren Moon becomes the first Black quarterback inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 2007 – Tony Dungy (right) becomes the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.
1887 – Famed pianist Eubie Blake is born in Baltimore. 1965 – Comedian and actor Chris Rock is born in Andrews, South Carolina. 1974 – The Caribbean country of Grenada declares its independence from the United Kingdom. 1991 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide takes the oath of office as Haiti's first democratically elected president.
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1944 – Harry S. McAlpin becomes the first African American journalist admitted to a White House press conference. 1986 – Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.
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1944 – Writer Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple," is born in Putnam County, Georgia. 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. meets with President Lyndon Johnson to discuss Black voting rights. 1971 – Pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1995 – Bernard Harris becomes the first Black astronaut to walk in space. WI
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1934 – Baseball legend Hank Aaron is born in Mobile, Alabama. 1972 – Bob Douglas, "the father of Black professional basketball," becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. 1990 – Barack Obama becomes the first Black elected to Head Harvard's Law Review.
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