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 Gwendolyn Brooks On May 1, 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks Was Awarded A Pulitzer Prize For Her Collection Of Poetry, Titled Annie Allen --- Becoming The First African American To Win That Award. Brooks Was An Important Figure In The Black Arts Movement Of The 1960's And Early 1970's. She Produced Over 15 Volumes Of Poetry. In 1953 She Wrote The Novel, Maud Martha, In 1972 She Penned Her Autobiography, Report From Part One. Brooks Was Designated Poet Laureate Of Ilinois In 1968. In 1985 She Became The First Black Woman To Be Appointed To The Coveted Position Of Poetry Consultant At The
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 Bessie ColemanOn April 30, 1926, Bessie Coleman Was Killed When Her Plane Crashed During A Test Flight In Jacksonville, Florida.Bessie Coleman Was Born In Texas, In 1893, To Sharecropper Parents. She Was Twelfth Of Thirteen Children. She Was Inspired To Become A Pilot By Eugene Jacques Bullard, A Black Pilot Who Flew For The French During World War I.Coleman Was Refused Admission To Flight-Training Schools In America Because Of Her Color And Sex. Subsequently, She Learned To Speak French While Working As A Manicurist. She Went To Paris In 1920, And After Ten Months, Had Her Airplane Pilot's
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Scene From The 1992 L.A. Riot
April 29, 1992 Marked The First Day Of Rioting Which Rocked The Predominately Black Neighborhood Of South Central Los Angeles.
Federal Troops Were Called In To Restore Calm And By The End Of The Three-Day Tragedy,The District Had Suffered More Than $550 Million And Fifty-Three People Were Killed -- Making It The Deadliest Riot In U.S. History.
The Immediate Cause Of The Riot: Four White Police Officers Of The Los Angeles Police Department Were Acquitted By An All-White Jury In Alameda County California, In The Brutal Beating Of Black Motorist, Rodney King.
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 Muhammad Ali
The World Boxing Association Stripped Muhammad Ali Of His Heaveweight Championship On April 28, 1967.
Ali's First Heavyweight Title Was Suspended After He Refused To Enlist In The Draft For The Vietnam War --- Having Claimed "Conscientious Objection" As A Minister Of Islam.
He Argued: "You won't even stand up for me here in America for my religious belief and you want me to go somewhere and fight, while you won't even stand up for me here at home."
His Title Was Restored By A Supreme Court Ruling In 1970.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., In Louisville , Kentucky, He Adopted The
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Charles "Chuck" Cooper
On April 25, 1950, Charles "Chuck" CooperWas Selected In The Second Round Of The National Basketball Association Draft By Boston Celtics Owner Walter Brown And Broke The Color Barrier In the NBA.Born September 29, 1926, In Pittsburgh, The 6'5" Cooper Attended West Virginia State Before Going Into The Navy During World War II. Afterwards He Attended Duquesne University And Was One Of The First Black All-Americans. As The First Black In The NBA, Cooper Made His Debut With The Celtics on November 1, 1950 And Played Six Seasons In The League. He Played A Season For the
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