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BlackHistory Today
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| 1776 |
The Declaration of Independence is adopted in Philadelphia, after passages condemning the slave trade are deleted from the document. |
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| 1827 |
New York State abolishes slavery. |
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| 1875 |
White Democrats murder black Republicans in Vicksburg, Mississippi as the white South wrests political control away from African Americans during Reconstruction. |
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| 1910 |
Boxer Jack Johnson beats Jim Jeffries, The Great White Hope, in a heavyweight championship match at Reno, Nevada. Boxing was symbolic of black-white tensions and Johnson's victory was a triumph for African Americans and a disaster for whites. |
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| 1991 |
The National Civil Rights Museum opens in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1968 assassination. |
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