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1810 - Charles Lenox Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts to free
	parents.  He will become one of the most prominent of the 
	African American abolitionist crusaders.

1810 - The first insurance company managed by African Americans, the 
	American Insurance Company of Philadelphia, is established.

1833 - Henry McNeal Turner is born.  He will become one of the first 
	Bishops in the African American Episcopal Church.  He will 
	also be an army chaplain, political organizer, magazine 
	editor, and college chancellor.

1865 - John S. Rock becomes the first African American attorney 
	allowed	to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
	Due to his poor health, he never actually argued a case 
	before the court, succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 
	41.

1870 - Jonathan Jasper Wright is elected to the South Carolina 
	Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold a 
	major judicial position.

1871 - Jefferson Franklin Long, Republican congressman from Georgia, 
	makes the first speech by an African American on the floor 
	of Congress.  His text is to oppose leniency to former	
	Confederates.

1902 - Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri.  He will be
	known as one of the most prolific American poets of the
	20th century and a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance. 
	In addition to his poetry,  Hughes will achieve success as 
	an anthologist and juvenile author, write plays and 
	librettos, found theater groups, and be a widely read 
	columnist and humorist.  Among his honors will be the 
             NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1960. 
 
1938 - Sherman Hemsley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He 
	will become an actor and will known for his roles in the TV 
	shows "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Amen."

1948 - James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. is born in Buffalo, New York.  He 
	will become a singer, songwriter, producer, and musician 
	working under the name "Rick James."  He will be best known 
	for his recording of "Super Freak" and produce Teena Marie, 
	the gold-certified Mary Jane Girls, Eddie Murphy, and others. 
	He will join the ancestors on August 6, 2004.

1957 - P.H. Young becomes the first African American pilot, flying on 
	an United States scheduled passenger airline. 

1960 - Four African American college students from North Carolina A&T 
	College in Greensboro, North Carolina sit at a "whites-only" 
	Woolworth's lunch counter and refuse to leave when denied 
	service, beginning a sit-in protest. 

1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes a self-governing nation.

1965 - More than seven hundred demonstrators, including Dr. Martin 
	Luther King Jr., are arrested in Selma, Alabama.

1965 - Ruby Dee becomes the first African American thespian to play a 
	major role at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford,
	Connecticut.

1978 - The first stamp of the United States Postal Service's Black
	Heritage USA series honors Harriet Tubman, famed 
             abolitionist and "conductor" on the  Underground Railroad. 

1982 - The nations of Senegal & Gambia form a loose confederation 
	named Senegambia.

1991 - President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa, states that he will 
	repeal all apartheid laws.

1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract to 
	date ($4.7 million).

1997 - BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz, 
	the first 24 hour African American movie channel.

2003 - Lt. Colonel Michael P. Anderson, NASA astronaut, joins the 
	ancestors at the age of 43, when the Space Shuttle Columbia 
	explodes during re-entry.

2003 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria, joins the ancestors in Miami, 
	Florida from stroke complications at the age of 85. He had 
	been considered one of the most influential percussionists of
	his generation.

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