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April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake. April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore . April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival , an event which ...
1906 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the ...
1906 – Jacob Ellehammer of Denmark constructs the Ellehammer semi-biplane. In this machine, he made a tethered flight on September 12, 1906, becoming the second European to make a powered flight. [84] [85] [86] 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont and his Santos-Dumont 14-bis make the first public flight of an airplane on October 23, 1906, in Paris ...
Few have been taught about the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, which shaped the city's geography, economy, society and power structure in lasting ways.
Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot The post Atlanta’s image challenged by facts of 1906 race ...
1927 – Babe Ruth hits a record 60 home runs in a single season; 1928 – Disney's Steamboat Willie opens, the first animated picture to feature Mickey Mouse; 1928 – Kellogg–Briand Pact; 1928 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. 1928 – First color motion pictures are demonstrated by George Eastman
Soldier of the 25th Infantry (photo c. 1884–90) Since arriving at Fort Brown on July 28, 1906, the black US soldiers had been required to follow the legal color line mandate from white citizens of Brownsville, which included the state's racial segregation law dictating separate accommodation for black people and white people, and Jim Crow customs such as showing respect for white people, as ...
Few have been taught about the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, which shaped the city's geography, economy, society and power structure in lasting ways. Atlanta's image challenged by facts of 1906 race ...