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1976 Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in New York City
1952 Omar Henry, cricketer, 1st colored player for South Africa 1992 1938 New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club" 1922 Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes 1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City 1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms 1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms 1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's 1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention 1863 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops 1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 1830 David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44 1785 David Walker, Wilmington, North Carolina, abolitionist, Appeal to Colored Citizens |
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