1989 - Public Enemy Releases “Fight the Power”

Legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy released “Fight the Power” on July 4, 1989, via Motown Records. Commissioned for Spike Lee’s film

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2002 - General B.O. Davis. Jr. dies

1900 - Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong born

1881 - Institutions of Higher Learning Established

1776 - Declaration of Independence adopted

1999 - Caribbean Integration

1991 - The National Civil Rights Museum officially opens

1972 - NAACP convention adopted emergency resolution

1970 - Injured people in riots

1963 - Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche receive the first Medals of Freedom.

1910 - First Black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson successfully defended his championship

1881 - Booker T Washington opened Tuskegee Institute

1876 - The famous African painter EM Bannister, is awarded the gold medal for his painting "Under the Oaks"

1875 - White Democrats killed several Blacks

1868 - Georgia legislature met

1861 - Thaddeus Stevens delivered a powerful speech advocating for the abolition of slavery.

1845 - Wildfire Lewis, aka Mary Edmonia Lewis, sculptor, born

1827 - Slavery abolished in New York State

1940 – Opening of the American Negro Exposition

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