1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
1997 Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90
1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1995 Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1992 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1991 12th United Negro College Fund
1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87
1990 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1989 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
1984 5th United Negro College Fund
1982 Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
1980 1st United Negro College Fund
1967 Claude A. Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77
1966 Vinny Del Negro, NBA guard for the San Antonio Spurs
1961 Otto E. Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1950 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic's Charles Cooper) Ft. Wayne Ind
1950 1st U.S. Negro delegate to United Nations appointed-ES Sampson
1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
1949 1st U.S. Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1947 Negro League World Series, New York Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
1947 Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
1946 Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama
1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the U.S. Negro Baseball League
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in U.S. State Department
1943 Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown
1942 John H. Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1940 American Negro Theater organizes
1936 Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in National Youth Adm
1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1935 National Council of Negro Women forms
1935 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York City)
1935 Pitts Crawfords beat New York Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
1933 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1933 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," New York City-1st negro prima donna in US
1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on Kansas City, Missouri narchs
1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1925 American Negro Congress organizes
1924 1st Negro League World Series: Kansas City, Missouri narchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
1922 Dorothy Irene Height, president, national council of negro women
1921 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0
1920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1920 National Negro Baseball League organizes
1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1919 Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) incorporates
1918 John H Johnson, U.S., publisher, Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet
1916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
1915 Assn for study of Negro Life and History forms by Carter G Woodson
1915 Assn of Negro Life and History founded
1913 Assn for Study of Negro Life and History organizes in Chicago
1911 Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth", hit 800+ HRs
1910 Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder, American Negro Theater
1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
1906 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans
1903 Cornell Woolrich, U.S., writer, El Angel Negro
1902 Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author, 100 years of negro freedom
1900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," composed
1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1897 American Negro Academy forms
1893 Otto E. Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief, Negro Worker
1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
1890 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
1889 Claude A. Barnett, founder, Associated Negro Press
1872 Delilah L. Beasley, U.S. author/columnist, Negro trail-blazers
1871 1st Negro lodge of U.S. Masons approved, New Jersey
1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st U.S. Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1846 John W. Cromwell, Secretary, American Negro Academy
1845 Isabel Barrows, U.S., editor/penologist, Conference on Negro Question
1833 HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
1830 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
1830 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1817 Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist, Fugitive Negro
1775 1st Negro Mason in U.S. initiated, Boston
1760 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist, Negro Emancipation
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