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Four Little Girls: Addie Mae Collins, September 15, 1963
Addie Mae Collins joined the ancestors (Apr 18, 1949 - Sept 15, 1963🙏🏾🕊️). Addie Mae was killed by a bomb made by white domestic terrorists.
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Spike Lee's documentary, Four Little Girls
4 Little Girls is a documentary about the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, where four African-American girls lost their lives in an act of racial terrorism.
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Four Little Girls: Carole Robinson, September 15, 1963
Carole Robertson joined the ancestors (Apr 24, 1949 - Sept 15, 1963🙏🏾🕊️🕯️✨). Carole was one of the four little girls killed by white domestic terrorists in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL
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Four Little Girls: Denise McNair, September 15, 1963
Denise McNair joined the ancestors (Nov 17, 1951 - Sept 15, 1963). Denise was a student at Center Street Elementary School, she, along with Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14) was murdered by white domestic terrorists
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Four Little Girls: Cynthia Wesley, September 15, 1963
Cynthia Wesley joined the ancestors (Apr 30, 1949 - Sept 15, 1963🙏🏾🕊️🕯️✨). Cynthia was one of four little girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair), killed by white domestic terrorists who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL
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Opposition to Busing in Boston, 1974
Sept 12, 1974: Opposition to court-ordered school busing in Boston, MA, turned violent the 1st day of classes
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Kim Hamilton (Sept 12, 1932 - Sept 16, 2013). Film/TV actress, director, writer, artist.
Kim Hamilton (Sept 12, 1932 - Sept 16, 2013). Film/TV actress, director, writer, artist. Her career spanned more than a half century, from the early 1950s to 2010.
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Alain Locke, 1st Black Rhodes Scholar and Father of the Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke (Sept 13, 1885 - Jun 9, 1954). 1st Black Rhodes Scholar after graduating from Harvard (1908) with a degree in philosophy
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LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr, 1st Officer of United Flight 93-
LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr joined the ancestors (Aug 27, 1965 - Sept 11, 2001). 1st Officer of United Flight 93 that crashed into a field near Shanksville, PA.
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Christopher J. Perry, Businessman, politican and Civil Rights Activist
Christopher J. Perry (Sept 11, 1854 - May 20, 1921). Businessman, politician, civil rights activist, journalist, founder of ‘The Tribune
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Crispus Attucks Wright, Civil Rights Lawyer
Crispus Attucks (Cris) Wright (Sept 11, 1914 - Dec 9, 2001). Civil rights lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, based in Los Angeles, CA.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Our Political Power
Adam Clayton Powell, US Congressman and Civil Rights Activist
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Wendell Whalum, Teacher, Organist and Musicologist
Wendell P. Whalum (Sept 4, 1931 - June 9, 1987). Teacher, organist, conductor, musicologist, arranger, composer, author, lecturer.
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Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Forerunner
On 5 September 1939, Black civil rights activist and nurse Claudette Colvin was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Emmett Till Funeral, 1955
Sept 6, 1955: Emmett Till was buried in a funeral at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, IL, after his open-casket viewing from Sept 3-6 attracted thousands of mourners.
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J'Ouvert, Brooklyn, NY September 8, 2026
J'Ouvert is a traditional pre-dawn street celebration that serves as the opening of carnival season in the Caribbean cultures.
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Hale Woodruff, Artist and Muralist
Hale Woodruff joined the ancestors (Aug 26, 1900 - Sept 6, 1980). Artist known for his murals, paintings, prints. He studied with Henry Ossawa Tanner and also fresco painting with Diego Rivera in Mexico. He painted the ‘Amistad Murals at Talladega College
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Martin Jenkins, Educator, Researcher, President of Morgan State College, 1948-1972
Martin David Jenkins (Sept 4, 1904 - Jun 9, 1978). Educator, researcher known for his work challenging mainstream theories of African American race and intelligence.
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Richard Wright (1908-1960), Author and Novelist
Richard Wright (Sept 4, 1908 - Nov 28, 1960). Author of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction
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Lewis Morrison, Actor
ewis Morrison (Sept 4, 1845 - Aug 20, 1906). Jamaican-born acto
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The Founding of Los Pobladores (Los Angeles), 1781
Sept 4, 1781: Los Angeles, California, then known as Los Pobladores, was founded by 44 Hispanic men, women and children of Native American, African and European descent.
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Anita Bush, Stage Actress and Playwright
Anita Bush (Sept 1, 1883 - Feb 16, 1974). Stage actress, playwright. She founded the Anita Bush All-Colored Dramatic Stock Company in 1915,
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King Cetshwayo kaMpande crowned as the ruler of the Zulu Kingdom at kwaNodwengu, 1873
On Sept 1, 1873: King Cetshwayo kaMpande was officially crowned as the ruler of the Zulu Kingdom at kwaNodwengu
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General Daniel Chappie, 1st African American Four Star General
Gen Daniel “Chappie” James Jr made history as the 1st African American to achieve the rank of 4-star general i
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