January 17, 1964 Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, the first African American First Lady of the United States, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Obama earned her Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Princeton University in 1985 and her Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard University Law School in 1988. While at Harvard, she participated in demonstrations […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on April 4, 2011 in African American History, April, Author, Civil Rights
Tags: April 4, Boston University, Congressional Gold Medal, January 15, January 17, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Morehouse College, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Spingarn Medal
April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., clergyman, activist and leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. King was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948. He then earned a Bachelor […]
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