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tips[1]='1867 - First four students enter Howard University.'
tips[2]='1920 - Indianapolis ABCs defeat Chicago Giants in first Negro National League Game.'
tips[3]='1964 - Frederick O"Neal becomes first Black president of the Actor"s Equity Association.'
tips[4]='1961 - "Freedom Riders" begin protesting segregation of interstate bus travel in the South.'
tips[5]='1988 - Eugene Marino becomes first African American installed as a Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S.'
tips[6]='1991 - The Smithsonian Institution approves the creation of the National African American Museum.'
tips[7]='1878 - Joseph R. Winters patents first fire escape ladder.'
tips[8]='1983 - Lena Horne awarded the Springarm Medal for distinguished career in the field of entertainment.'
tips[9]='1899 - John Albert Burr patents lawn.'
tips[10]='1950 - Boston Celtics select Chuck Cooper first Black player drafted to play in the NBA.'
tips[11]='1895 - Composer William Grant Still, the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, born.'
tips[12]='1820 - The New York African Free School population reaches 500.'
tips[13]='1872 - Matilda Arabella Evans, first African American woman to practice medicine in South Carolina, born.'
tips[14]='1888 - Slavery abolished in Brazil.'
tips[15]='1820 - U.S. Congress declares foreign slave trade an act of piracy, punishable by death.'
tips[16]='1927 - William Harry Barnes becomes first African American certified by any American surgical board.'
tips[17]='1954 - U.S. Supreme Court declares segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education decision.'
tips[18]='1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson, Supreme Court upholds the doctrine of "separate but equal" education and public accommodations.'
tips[19]='1925 - Malcolm X born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb.'
tips[20]='1961 - U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy dispatches U.S. Marshals to Montgomery, Ala., to restore order in the "Freedom Rider" disturbance.'
tips[21]='1833 - African Americans enroll for the first time at Oberlin College, Ohio.'
tips[22]='1921 - Shuffle Along, a musical featuring a score by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, opens on Broadway.'
tips[23]='1900 - Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor at Fort Wagner, S.C.,1863.'
tips[24]='1854 - Lincoln University (Pa.), the first black college, is founded.'
tips[25]='1926 - Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis born.'
tips[26]='1961 - Marvin Cook named ambassador to Niger Republic; first Black envoy named by Kennedy Administration to an African nation.'
tips[27]='1919 - Madame C.J. Walker, cosmetics manufacturer and first Black female millionaire, died.'
tips[28]='1948 - National Party wins Whites-only election in South Africa and begins to institute policy of apartheid.'
tips[29]='1901 - Granville T. Woods patents overhead conducting system for the electric railway.'
tips[30]='1965 - Vivian Malone becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Alabama.'
tips[31]='1870 - Congress passes the first Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for those who deprive others of their civil rights.'
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