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tips[1]='1863 - President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation'
tips[2]='1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for non-violent protests if Alabama Blacks are not allowed to register and vote.'
tips[3]='1624 - William Tucker first African American child born in America.'
tips[4]='1971 - Congressional Black Caucus formed.'
tips[5]='1943 - George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist, died.'
tips[6]='1831 - The World Anti-Slavery Convention opens in London.'
tips[7]='1890 - William B. Purvis patents fountain pen.'
tips[8]='1811 - Charles Deslandes leads slave revolt in Louisiana.'
tips[9]='1866 - Fisk University is founded in Nashville.'
tips[10]='1864 - George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist, born.'
tips[11]='1985 - Reuben V. Anderson, first African American to be appointed to Mississippi Supreme Court.'
tips[12]='1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that African Americans have the right to study law at state institutions.'
tips[13]='1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes first African American U.S. governor (Virginia) since Reconstruction. 1913 - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated becomes the 2nd Black Greek Letter Organization.'
tips[14]='1975 - William T. Coleman named U.S. Scretary of Transportation.'
tips[15]='1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha, first African American sorority, is founded at Howard University.'
tips[16]='1978 - NASA names Black astronauts: Maj. Frederick D. Gregory, Maj. Guion S. Bluford, and Dr. Ronald McNair.'
tips[17]='1942 - Three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali born.'
tips[18]='1856 - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, pioneer heart surgeon, born.'
tips[19]='1969 - UCLA renames its social science buildings to honor alumnus Ralph Bunche.'
tips[20]='2009 - Barack Obama, Jr. inaugurated as 44th US President and 1st Black President - - - 1977 - Patricia Roberts Harris becomes U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the first black woman to hold a Cabinet position.'
tips[21]='1936 - Former Congressman Barbara Jordan born.'
tips[22]='1949 - James Robert Gladden becomes first African American certified in orthopedic surgery.'
tips[23]='1891 - Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founds Provident Hospital in Chicago, one of the first schools of nursing for black students in the U. S.'
tips[24]='1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment which, on ratification, abolished slavery in America.'
tips[25]='1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses the first Black Women"s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.'
tips[26]='1954 - Dr. Theodore K. Lawless, dermatologist, awarded the Springarn Medal for his research in skin-related diseases.'
tips[27]='1961 - Leontyne Price made her Metropolitan Opera debut.'
tips[28]='1787 - Free Africa Society organized in Philadelphia.'
tips[29]='1926 - Violette Nealy Anderson becomes the first Black woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.'
tips[30]='1979 - Franklin Thomas named president of Ford Foundation.'
tips[31]='1986 - August Wilson"s Fences, starring James Earl Jones, opens at Chicago"s Goodman Theatre'
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