Archive for May 2009

1948

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Claude McKay dies.


1901

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Playwright Regina Anderson is born.


1904

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Jazz musician Fats Waller is born.


1961

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Freedom Riders are attacked by the Ku Klux Klan at the Montgomery bus station.


1950

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Track and field athlete Rod Milburn is born.


1930

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Playwright Lorraine Hansberry is born.


1925

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Malcolm X is born.


1986

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Entertainer John W. Bubbles dies.


1946

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Baseball player Reggie Jackson is born.


1911

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Singer Big Joe Turner is born.


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