Lincoln University in Pennsylvania was the first college founded for African-Americans. It was founded in 1854. Alumni of the university include: Thurgood Marshall and Langston Hughes. Tweet
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Harriet Tubman’s birthname was Araminta Ross. She lived to be 93 years old. During her tenure of freeing slaves, she reportedly made 19 trips to the south and freed her family and at least 300 other slaves. Tweet
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Figure skater Debi Thomas was the first African-American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. She is now an orthopedic surgeon. Tweet
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Paul Robeson was named valedictorian of his graduating class at Rutgers University. Afterwards, he graduated from Columbia Law School while playing in the National Football League (NFL). Paul Robeson was considered the true “renaissance man.” He was an accomplished scholar, activist, attorney, athlete, singer, activist, and multilinguist. A proverbial, “Jack of all trades, and a […]
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George Carruthers invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera. This device has been used by NASA in their deep space mission. Tweet
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In 1993, Maurice Ashley became the first African-American to become an International Grandmaster in chess. At the age of 20, he was a national master. Tweet
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On October 31, 1950, Earl Lloyd became the first African-American to play in the NBA. He played only days before African-American NBA pioneers Chuck Cooper and Nathaniel Clifton, and within the same season as NBA pioneer, Hank DeZonie. Collectively, these four men we the first African-American basketball players to play in the NBA, during the […]
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Although he allegedly only had a fifth-grade education, Garret Morgan was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur. In 1923, he patented his automatic traffic light invention. He reportedly sold this patent to General Electric. Tweet
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“Many people assume that belief in the theft of black bodies is paranoia born of a violent racist history. But Jamie Gaines and Sarah Cox know from experience that black cadavers tend to disappear. In January 1998, the sisters frowned as they surveyed the crumbling headstones, trash, and tangled weeds strangling Greenwood, the Birmingham, Alabama, […]
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Attorney Constance Baker Motley was the first African-American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. She won this case, which allowed James Meredith to become the first Black student to attend the University of Mississippi. Constance Motley was also the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate. She was […]
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