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1
2005: activist Volma Overton died

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1983: Pres. Ronald Reagan signs MLK birthday bill into law
2004: 1st black Travis Co. sheriff, Gregg Hamilton, was elected

3 Election Day

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1974: political leader Wilhelmina Delco won a Texas House seat
2008: winning the race against Sen. John McCain (R., Arizona), Sen. Barack Obama (D., Illinois) became the 1st black President.

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1968: Shirley Chisolm became 1st African American woman in the US Congress

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1860: Abraham Lincoln won the US presidency
1900: James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson composed "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing."

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1972: Barbara Jordan was elected to the US Congress

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11 Veterans Day
1973: Anderson HS graduate John Harvey ran for the Montreal Alouettes and won the Jeff Russell Memorial Trophy for the Most Outstanding Player in the Eastern Division of the CFL

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1903: historian and W.H. Passon Historical Society co-founder Ada Simond was born

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1915: educator Booker Taliferro Washington died
1962: Oak Springs Park renamed for activist Dr. E.H. Givens, a dentist

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1797: abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) was born

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1979: Austin’s 1st black female firefighter was hired

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1963: President John Kennedy was murdered in Dallas; his next stop would have been Austin
2003: artist and activist Alli Aweusi died

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26 Thanksgiving

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2003: educator and activist Onie B. Conley died

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1924: pioneering state and federal legislator Shirley Chisolm was born

5 December
1 p.m. regular meeting of the W.H. Passon Society