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The major African American bands of the 1930s included, apart from the bands led by Ellington, Hines and Calloway, were those of Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, and Chick Webb.
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Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.
* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
Clinton drew strong support from the African American community and made improving race relations a major theme of his presidency.
Botswana joins the African consensus on most major international matters and is a member of international organizations such as the United Nations and the African Union.
The United States International Board of Broadcasters ( IBB ) operates a major Voice of America ( VOA ) relay station in Botswana serving most of the African continent.
Burkina Faso's 15, 3 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups — the Gur ( Voltaic ) and the Mandé.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier that had prevented talented African American players from entering the white-only major leagues.
Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues.
Standardization of tax, customs, and security arrangements between the Central African states is a major foreign policy objective of the C. A. R.
generally joins other African and developing country states in consensus positions on major policy issues.
A major military base was built in Kenya, and the African colonies came under an unprecedented degree of direct control from London.
Brazil, with its vast territory, was the major destination of African slaves, receiving 38. 5 % of all slaves sent by ships across the Atlantic Ocean.
A major component of their diet is the flesh of large mammal s, like this African buffalo.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church resumed its participation by the February 2010 plenary meeting, where CUIC moved to refocus on its eight marks of commitment and a shared concern for racial justice as a major dividing factor facing ecumenism.
* 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
What is now Guinea was on the fringes of the major West African empires.
After the fall of the major West African empires, various kingdoms existed in what is now Guinea.
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the African slave trade, centuries old in Africa, was not yet the major feature of the coastal economy of Guinea.
During his tenure, he sponsored more African American players than any other major league executive.
The tuning of the gravikord is an extended version of the " G " major / " E " minor tuning system of the Hugh Tracey kalimba while its overall physical structure is derived from the African kora.
In the 1940s Lawrence was given his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and became the most celebrated African American painter in the country.
Arab governance of all the major ports along the East African coast continued until British interests aimed particularly at securing their ' Indian Jewel ' and creation of a system of trade among individuals began to put pressure on Omani rule.
It is considered the main alternative location to South Africa, for major corporations seeking entry into the African continent.
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Of the major expansions in 1960, three were financed under the R. I. Industrial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage plan: Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American Tube & Controls.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger has been a distinguished publisher of this distinguished newspaper and it is fitting that we take due notice of his major contribution to American journalism on the occasion of his retirement.
When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.
Dr. Hester, also one of the youngest men ever to head a major American university, succeeds Dr. Carroll V. Newsom who resigned last September to join Prentice-Hall Inc. publishing firm.
`` In the hard life of politics it is well known that no platform nor any program advanced by either major American party has any purpose beyond expressing emotion ''.
In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.
* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
The Ancient Pueblo were one of four major prehistoric archaeological traditions recognized in the American Southwest, sometimes referred to as Oasisamerica.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.
* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.
Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.
The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.
This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.
2B Orlando Hudson became the recipient of his second career Gold Glove Award, as announced on November 3 becoming only the sixth infielder in major league history to win a Gold Glove award in both the American and National Leagues.
The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.
The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.
* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
She has uncovered the politics behind the New York City Greenmarket, and was among the first to publish a long-form article in a major American newspaper about Ferran Adria of El Bulli.
Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.
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