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1967: Reconstruction in the South begins with the registration of all male voters
1960: US House & Senate passed a weak Civil Rights Act
1971: Berl Handcox was elected to Austin city council—100 years after Henry Madison served in a similar same role.

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1994: Nelson Mandela defeated F.W. de Klerk to become 1st black president of the Republic of South Africa

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1995: Austin-born Ron Kirk was elected mayor of Dallas
2002: legendary "old" Anderson High School basketball coach Lawrence Britton Sr. died

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2005: businessman and Huston-Tillotson alumnus Anthony Viaer donated $1,030,000 to the university

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1967: Damita Jo (DeBlanc) Day was proclaimed by the Austin City Council

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13 Mother's Day
1919: Anderson High School basketball coach Lawrence Britton Sr. was born

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2012: Prof. Melvin Sikes, a widely travelled educator, co-author of "Living with Racism: The Black Middle-Class Experience," and former Tuskegee Airmen, died

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1925: Black Muslim activist Malcolm (Little) X was born

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1925: activist and UT professor john Warfield was born
1965: Voting Rights Bill passed
2005: the Austin City Council heard the results of the contracted African American Quality of Life report

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28 Memorial Day

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30 1909: the National Negro Committee (later the NAACP) was born from the Niagra Movement conference in NYC

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2 June
1 p.m. regular meeting of the W.H. Passon Society