February 2012
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THE BLACK LIST
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This Day in Black History: Feb 9th
On this date in 1966, the Maryland Freedom Workers was formed.
It began when twenty Black women working as nurses’ aids, housekeepers and kitchen staff walked off their jobs. They were working at Lincoln Nursing Home in Baltimore, MD. They contacted field secretaries of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) with whom they had met the previous week and told them that Lincoln was “on...
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This Day in Black History: Feb 8th
On this date in 1944, Harry S. McAlpin was the first African-American journalist admitted to a white house press conference.
He was working for the National Negro Press Association and the Atlanta Daily World. On that day, McAlpin was waiting to go into the Oval Office, where they had press conferences at that time, when a white reporter from the New Orleans Times-Picayune spoke to him. The...
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This Day in Black History: Feb 7th
On this date Eubie Blake was born in 1883. He was an African American pianist and composer of ragtime music and show tunes.
From Baltimore, Maryland, Blake first exhibited his natural aptitude for the keyboard on a home pump-organ at age six. As a teenager, he played piano in cafés and brothels, and in 1899 he played his first rag, Sounds of Africa, published in 1919 as Charleston Rag. His...
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This Day in Black History: Feb 6th
In 1945, Bob Marley was born. The Bob Marley influence upon various populations remains unparalleled, irrespective of race, color or creed. Bob Marley’s revolutionary yet unifying music, challenging colonialism, racism, “fighting against ism and scism” as he sang in “One Drop”, has had profound effects even in country’s where English isn’t widely spoken....
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This Day in Black History: Feb 3rd
After a long legal battle that included a Supreme Court ruling on her behalf, Autherine Lucy became the first African-American to enroll at the University of Alabama on Feb. 3, 1956. However, soon after her arrival, a mob of angry segregationists would cause uproar over her admittance, and the school would suspend Lucy on grounds that it could not provide a safe environment for her. Lucy would...
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