Frederick Drew Gregory was the first African-American to pilot and command a Space Shuttle mission. His father, Francis A. Gregory, was the first black president of the DC Public Library Board of Trustees. Tweet
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On this date in 1915, Carter G Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: The Code Noir
“The French empire in the West Indies was built on sugar production and the labor of enslaved Africans. The Code Noir, a French legal code, regulated slavery in the West Indies. Though it was never made law in Canada, New France’s slaveholders applied the Code Noir when they thought it necessary. In 1685, when the […]
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“Henry Bibb, who escaped from slavery in Kentucky and moved to Canada in 1850, published the country’s first Black newspaper, “The Voice of the Fugitive,” in which he recorded the narratives or numerous escaped slaves.” -From, “The Hanging of Angelique” By: Afua Cooper Tweet
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“The city fathers, however, refused to take the boycott seriously. ‘Comes the first rain day,’ the mayor said with a laugh, ‘and the Negroes will be back on the buses.’ In fact, it rained the next day. But the Negroes stayed off the buses, most of them trudging to work under umbrellas and newspapers, bundled […]
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According to About.com, Miriam Benjamin invented a chair that “allowed hotel patrons to summon waiters by pushing a button attached to the back. The signal would buzz the waiter station and a light would appear on the chair, letting the waiters know who needed service. The actual patent was issued to Benjamin in 1888. Her […]
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“The Detroit River frontier, which encapsulates the present Detroit are and the counties of Essex and Kent in Ontario, was also a centre of French habitation and hence slavery. Black slavery in the Detroit River district began when the fur trader and explorer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac traveled to the region and in 1701 […]
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Chemist Alice Augusta Bell discovered an oil that cured leprosy. Tweet
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Brazilian gold extraction, like its sugar production, was based on African slavery.” From, “The Hanging of Angelique” By: Afua Cooper Tweet
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Benjamin Banneker invented the first clock. The clock he invented worked for decades. Benjamin Banneker also authored farmers almanacs which predicted events in nature. Tweet
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