Black History Month 2010
Milestones and passings in the last 12 months.
Photo credit: Newsday Photo, 1967 / Stan Wolfson | The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves from the ferry to crowds gathered to see him during a visit to Long Island.
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Martin Luther King
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article Nassau 2/1/10 At statue dedication, a call for racial cooperation Dedicating a piece of artwork Monday at Nassau Community College to kick off Black History ...
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article Politics 2/1/10 Harold Ford meets with LI pols Could-be U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. made his first political trip to Long Island ...
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article Baseball 1/30/10 Monte Irvin, 90, too big a man to be bitter Irvin, along with Hank Thompson, broke the color line for the New York Giants. ...
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article Long Island 1/20/10 Lawmaker wants Riverhead post office named for honored vet When Garfield Langhorn, 20, joined the small, select band of Long Islanders who had been ...
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article Suffolk 11/10/09 Amityville activist 'Mama Lillian' Scott dies at 93 Lillian Beatrice Scott, a passionate civil rights activist and a matriarch to her community, Amityville, ...
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column Joye Brown FD mourns volunteer who broke color barrier His is an unlikely love story with his community that began 40 years ago. ...
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article Long Island 8/28/09 Floral Park Marine remembered as a 'hero' The last time Sgt. Archie Ortega saw his close friend Lance Cpl. Leopold Damas, the ...
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article News 1/22/09 Wyatt B. Turner, longtime civil rights activist, dies After decades of civil rights activism on Long Island, Wyatt Burghardt Turner swore that nothing ...
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article Long Island 3/8/09 George Boykin, retired Stony Brook staffer, dies George Boykin of East Moriches, who worked at The Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook ...
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article Basketball 2/14/09 Old Westbury's Tomlin sharing black history Black History Month prompts reflection for Bernard Tomlin, the SUNY-Old Westbury men's basketball coach. He ...
