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Black History Fact Of The Day
Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African-American flight attendant in the United States. She is also a registered nurse and a journalist. In 1955, she graduated from the Bellevue School of Nursing. On February 11, 1958, she was on a flight from Ithaca to New York City as America’s first Black stewardess. Approximately six months […]
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In addition to performing the first successful open heart surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams co-founded the first African-American controlled hospital in the United States. The pioneering Provident Hospital, which was located on Chicago’s South Side, was also the first training facility for African American nurses in America. The hospital was said to have an extremely […]
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“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.” -Jesse Owens Tweet
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Charles Evers, older brother of Medgar Evers, was elected mayor of Fayette, Mississippi in 1969. This election made him the first African-American to be elected as a mayor in the south since the Reconstruction era. Born on September 11, 1922, Charles Evers is currently 93 years old. Tweet
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“The first premise of the argument to deny black New Yorkers the vote asserted that African-Americans were by nature incapable of responsibly exercises this precious right of self-rule. ‘The minds of the blacks are not competent to vote,’ argued one [New York State Constitutional] Convention member. ‘They are too ignorant to know whether their vote […]
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Dr. Charlotte Hawkins, forged friendships with Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington to name a few. She was also the aunt of singer, Natalie Cole. The granddaughter of slaves, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins was born in 1883 in North Carolina. She founded the Palmer Memorial Institute, one of the first prep schools […]
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“It took me three winters on St. Simon’s to hear a single slave song, three times as many winters to see the religious dance called the ring-shout, still more winters to unearth the Buzzard Lope and similar solo dances, and the game songs known as ring-play…The secretiveness of the Negro is, I believe, the fundamental […]
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