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Harris was the first African-American chess player to earn the USCF title of National Master. [1] He had a remarkable 5th-place finish in the 1959 U.S. Junior Open. At that tournament, he was unable to rent a room at the tournament's hotel ( Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel ) due to racial segregation.
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First African American to be named Super Bowl MVP in NFL: Franco Harris (Pittsburgh Steelers). Of mixed ancestry, Harris was also the first Italian-American to win the award. Franco Harris Barbara Jordan First African-American women named as Time magazine's Person of the Year: Barbara Jordan and Addie L. Wyatt [260]
The Harris campaign cited three parts of Project 2025 as evidence for its claim about stripping away Black Americans’ voting rights: reorganizing the Justice Department, investigating state ...
Vice President Harris on Monday released an economic agenda for Black men, focusing on helping business owners, teachers, cryptocurrency investors, men with health conditions and men in the ...
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
Instead, the Harris-Walz campaign’s “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” released three weeks before the election, serves as a statement of redrawn lines around what will now constitute ...
Walter Edgar Harris (1915–2011), Canadian chemist Walter Harris (historian) (1686–1761), Irish historian Walter Alexander Harris (1875–1958), lawyer, writer, and U.S. Army officer