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| July 18, 1619 |
First Black slaves exported from Africa to Jamestown, VA |
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| October 25, 1806 |
Death of Benjamin Banneker |
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| February 04, 1822 |
Freed African Americans settled in Liberia, West Africa |
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| December 24, 1832 |
First Black Hospital founded in Savannah, GA |
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| August 31, 1836 |
Henry Blair patents cotton planting machine |
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| May 24, 1854 |
Lincoln University founded in Pennsylvania |
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| October 16, 1859 |
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, WVA |
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| November 21, 1865 |
Shaw University founded in North Carolina |
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| May 27, 1870 |
Michael Howard becomes first Black admitted to West Point Military Academy |
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| October 21, 1872 |
John H. Conyers becomes first Black U S Naval Academy cadet |
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| March 04, 1875 |
Birthdate of Garrett A. Morgan |
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| November 04, 1879 |
Thomas Elkins patents refrigeration apparatus |
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| November 15, 1881 |
Payton Johnson patents swinging chair |
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| June 24, 1884 |
John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party |
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| September 09, 1884 |
John R Lynch Presides over Republican National Convention |
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