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July 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
July 12, 2022 14:10 - 2 minutes - 2.27 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 5. Frederick Douglass gave his speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?". He was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author. He became the first Black U.S. marshal. Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. When he was seven years old, he was sent to his master, Captain Aaron Anthony, at a nearby plantation. On September 3, 1838,...
July 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
July 12, 2022 14:05 - 1 minute - 2.16 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 4. Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche receive the first Medals of Freedom. She was an American singer, and an important figure in the struggle for African-American artists to overcome racial prejudice. Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, member of the United Nations for more than two decades, activist of the US civil rights movement, and the first African American and first person of African descent to be awarded a...
July 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
July 12, 2022 14:02 - 2 minutes - 2.49 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 3. Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. After demonstrating exceptional athletic ability during high school and junior college, he excelled at baseball, football, basketball, and track at the University of California at Los Angel...
July 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
July 12, 2022 13:58 - 1 minute - 2.05 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 2. Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African American civil rights movement, as non-violent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights movement had been gathering ...
July 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
July 12, 2022 13:55 - 1 minute - 2.01 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 1st. Roland Hayes named soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first African American singer to achieve success on the classical concert stage. Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, to Fanny and William Hayes, who were former slaves. He wanted an education, but he had to drop out of school to help support his family and worked at many jobs. He moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he found a job singing at a silent mo...
June 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.04 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 30. Lena Horne was born. She was an African-American dancer, actress, Grammy-winning singer, and civil rights activist. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City. She was discovered by producer John Hammond, and soon after she performed in a solo show at Carnegie Hall. A remarkably charismatic entertainer, Horne was one of the most popular sin...
June 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.04 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 29. NAACP chairman S.G. Spottswood criticize Nixon's administration. Stephen Gill Spottswood was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He went on to Albright College, earning a B.A. in history in 1917; Gordon Divinity School; and Yale Divinity School, where he earned his doctorate. He joined the NAACP in 1919 and was an active voice for racial equality throughout his adult life. He became president of the NAACP's Washington branch...
June 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.96 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 28. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the use of racial quotas for university applications. The medical school at the University of California, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent of its admission places for minority applicants. Allan Bakke, a white California man who had twice unsuccessfully applied for admission to the medical school, filed suit against the university. Citing ...
June 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.12 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 27. Frederick Jones invents the ticket dispensing machine. He was an U.S. inventor credited with more than 60 patents. After a challenging childhood, Jones taught himself mechanical and electrical engineering, inventing a range of devices relating to refrigeration, sound, and automobiles. In the late 1920s, Jones designed a series of devices for the developing movie industry, which adapted silent movie projectors to use talking m...
June 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 26, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.17 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 26. Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance began in Cairo, Illinois. Despite Illinois’s relatively liberal reputation, Cairo, a small city far south from Chicago, was thoroughly segregated and violently racist. Local youths formed the Cairo Nonviolent Freedom Committee (CNVFC) and invited Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to go to the small city to initiate protests. Soon after, CNVFC launched “Operation Open...
June 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 25, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 25. Sonia Sotomayor was born. She is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman of color, first Hispanic, and first Latina member of the Court. Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bronx. After the death of her father, her mother worked long hours as a nurse to support the family. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University before attending Yale Law School on a schola...
June 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.01 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 24. John R. Lynch became first African-American to preside over deliberations of a national political party. Born into slavery in Louisiana, he became free in 1863 under the Emancipation Proclamation. He became active in the Republican Party by the age of 20. Although too young to participate as a delegate, he attended the state's constitutional convention of 1867, studying its developments closely. At the age of 26 in 1872, Ly...
June 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 23, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 23. Wilma Rudolph was born. She was an American sprinter, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was twelve years old. Because there was little medical care available to African American residents of Clarksville in the 1940s, Rudolph's parents sought treatment for her at the historically black Meharr...
June 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 22, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 22. Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to the NCAA tennis championship. Ashe was coached and mentored by Robert Walter Johnson at his tennis summer-camp home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Johnson helped fine-tune Ashe's game and taught him the importance of racial socialization through sportsmanship, etiquette and the composure that would later become an Ashe hallmark. In 1958, Ashe became the first African American to play in the Maryland boys' ...
BlackFacts Presents - The History of Juneteenth
June 21, 2022 16:00 - 5 minutes - 13.5 MBJUNETEENTH - A Celebration of Freedom. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. It is now celebrated annually on the 19th of June throughout the United States. HISTORY During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It became effective...
June 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 21, 2022 12:47 - 2 minutes - 2.26 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 21. Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner was born. He was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. After a childhood spent largely in Philadelphia, Tanner began an art career in earnest in 1876,painting harbour scenes, landscapes, and animals from the Philadelphia Zoo. Although many artists refused to accept an African-American apprentice, in 1879 Tanner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Acade...
June 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 20. Harry Belafonte became the first African American to win an Emmy award. As one of the most successful African-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the “King of Calypso” for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. He was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and one of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s confidants. He financed the 1961 Freedom Rid...
June 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.06 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 19. Solidarity Day March In November 1967 civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) met and decided to launch a Poor People’s Campaign to highlight and find solutions to many of the problems facing the country’s poor. The Poor People’s Campaign was still in the planning stages when King was assassinated in April 1968. The plan for the march was t...
June 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 18, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 18. W.H. Richardson patents Baby Buggy. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he made a huge improvement to the baby carriage. Richardson decided to create a stroller to be shaped more like a symmetrical basket, rather than a shell, as it was back then. This new design made it easier for parents and nannies to move the carriage around 360 degrees, compared to only 90 degrees before. The big part of Richardson’s change to the ...
June 17 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 17, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.29 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 17. Tuskegee Boycott began. The issue of the boycott was segregation and voting rights. The voting districts for the city of Tuskegee were changed dramatically to prevent black citizens from electing local officials. The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA), a predominantly black organization working for civil rights, challenged the new district boundaries and took it to court. The leader of the Civic Association was ...
June 16 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 16, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.36 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 16. Kenneth A. Gibson became the first African American mayor of Newark. He entered politics in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement, by joining the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Gibson ran for mayor in 1966. He joined the mayoral race only six weeks before the election. Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio was reelected, but Gib...
June 15 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 15, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.6 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 15. Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, the eldest of five brothers. His mother, Isabelle Flipper, and his father, Festus Flipper, a shoemaker, and carriage-trimmer were owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a wealthy slave dealer. Flipper attended Atlanta University during Reconstruction. There, as a fresh...
June 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 14. William H. Gray was elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. He graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1959 and enrolled in Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, majoring in sociology. In 1972, Gray succeeded his father as the senior minister at Bright Hope Baptist Church in Philadelphia, succeeding not only his father but also his grandfather, who had founded the 4,000-member church. H...
June 13 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 13, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.32 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 13. Thurgood Marshall named the first African-American Court's justice. After being rejected by the University of Maryland Law School because he was not white, Marshall attended Howard University Law School; he received his degree in 1933, ranking first in his class. He established a private legal practice in Baltimore before founding the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as executive director. As an attor...
June 12 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 12, 2022 19:41 - 1 minute - 2.19 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 12. Michael Jordan leads Chicago to 1st NBA Title. The Chicago Bulls defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 108-101 at the Great Western Forum to capture the NBA Finals in five games. It was the Bulls’ first-ever NBA title in their 25th anniversary season in the league. Jordan scored 30 points and teammate Scottie Pippen hit for 32. This was no easy task for the Bulls going up against the Lakers Big Three in Magic Johnson, ...
June 11 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 12, 2022 19:39 - 2 minutes - 2.42 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 11. Kennedy's Report to the American People on Civil Rights. It was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kennedy was initially cautious in his support of civil rights and desegregation in the United States. As his term continued, African Americans became increasin...
June 10 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.21 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 10. Howlin' Wolf was born. Born as Chester Arthur Burnett, he was an American blues singer and composer who was one of the principal exponents of the urban blues style of Chicago. He was brought up on a cotton plantation, and the music he heard was the traditional tunes of the region. He started singing professionally when quite young and in the 1920s and ’30s performed throughout Mississippi, playing in small clubs. He accompani...
June 9 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 09, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.17 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 9. Oliver W. Hill became the 1st Black person elected to the city council in Richmond, Virginia. He was a prominent civil rights attorney. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." Hill first practiced law in Roanoke, Virginia, before settling in Richmond in 1939. He joined the legal team of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Hill’s first civil ...
June 8 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 08, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 8. James Earl Ray, the suspect in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, was captured. On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr, was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. In May ...
June 7 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 07, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 7. Nikki Giovanni was born. She is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tennessee, and in 1960 she entered Nashville’s Fisk University. By 1967, when she received a B.A., she was firmly committed to the civil rights movement and the concept of black power. Her experiences as a single mother then began to influence her poetry. Loneliness, thwarted hop...
June 6 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.21 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 6. Marian Wright Edelman was born. She is an American attorney and civil rights activist who founded the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973. After work registering African American voters in Mississippi, she moved to New York City as a staff attorney for the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Edelman was the first African American woman admitted to The Missis...
June 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 05, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.94 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 5. American Negro Theater was formed. It was an African American theatre company that was active in the Harlem district of New York City from 1940 to 1951. It provided professional training and critical exposure to African American actors, actresses, and playwrights by creating and producing plays concerning diverse aspects of African American life. It was established by two African Americans, the playwright Abram Hill and the ac...
June 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 04, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.3 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 4. Angela Davis was acquitted by a white jury. She is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author of over ten books on class, feminism, race, and the US prison system. Born to an African-American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. After returning to the United States, she joined the Communist Party and be...
June 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.92 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 3. Physician Charles Drew was born. He was an African American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion. Drew was educated at Amherst College, McGill University, Montreal, and Columbia University. While earning his doctorate at Columbia in the late 1930s, he researched the properties and preservation of blood plasma. He soon developed efficient ways to process and store larg...
June 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 02, 2022 14:04 - 1 minute - 2.02 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 2. James Augustine Healy became the first Black Roman Catholic Bishop in USA. Healy was one of 10 children born on a Georgia cotton plantation to an Irish immigrant and his common-law wife, a mixed-race slave. Because Healy and his siblings were legally considered illegitimate and slaves, they were barred from attending school in the state, and their parents were forced to send the boys to schools in the North. After college Heal...
June 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
June 01, 2022 14:29 - 1 minute - 1.95 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 1st. White House Conference on Civil Rights The aim of the conference was built on the momentum of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in addressing discrimination against African Americans. The four areas of discussion were housing, economic security, education, and the administration of justice. President Lyndon Johnson had promised this conference in his commencement address at Howard University th...
May 31 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 31, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 31. Jesse Dwight Locker was born. He was an attorney, politician and, the second black American appointed as ambassador. Locker graduated valedictorian of his class at College Hill High School and graduated from Howard University with a law degree in 1945. He led the North Ward Progressive Republican Club and the Lincoln-Douglas Republican Club. He also endeavored with various charities. In 1941, he won the first of six terms on...
May 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.81 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 30. Countee Cullen was born. He was an American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance. He won a citywide poetry contest as a schoolboy and saw his winning stanzas widely reprinted. At New York University he won the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Major American literary magazines accepted his poems regularly, and his first collection of poems, "Color" (1925), was published to critical ac...
May 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.01 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 29. Thomas Bradley was elected the first African-American mayor of Los Angeles. The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves, Bradley grew up in poverty. When he was seven years old, his parents moved to Los Angeles. He was attending Southwestern University Law School while a police officer and began his practice as a lawyer when he retired from the police department. His first mayoral campaign was in 1969; the city was sti...
May 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.99 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 28. Gladys Knight was born. She is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and author. Knight is known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, she would sing in the church choir. She first achieved minor fame by winning Ted Mack's "The Original Amateur Hour" TV show contest at the age of eight in 1952. The Pi...
May 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 27. Ernest Green Graduates from Little Rock. He was the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. As a child, Green participated in church activities and was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, eventually earning the rank of Eagle Scout. He attended segregated Dunbar Junior High School and graduated after ninth grade, at which time he was assigned to Horace Mann Hi...
May 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 26, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.41 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 26. Miles Davis was born. He was an American jazz musician, a trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on art from the late 1940s. Davis grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, where his father was a prosperous dental surgeon, and began studying trumpet in his early teens. He played with jazz bands in the St. Louis area before moving to New York City in 1944 to study at the Institute of Musical Art, ...
May 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.17 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 25. 30 million people worldwide joined "Race against time" to raise money for starving in Africa. The event was organized by chairman and founder Chris Long, Bob Geldof (Band Aid and Live Aid) and John Anderson (Head of Global Special Events, UNICEF). A central event was the lighting of a symbolic torch at the United Nations by Omar Khalifa, a champion Sudanese 1500m runner, to signal the start of the 10K races around the world. K...
May 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 2.04 MBPatti LaBelle was born. She is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the 1970s, they released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade". The band later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and they became the first pop group to play at the Metr...
May 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.92 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 23. Shuffle Along, the 1st black hit musical, opened at the 63rd St. Music Hall in New York City. The show was developed by black comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles and featured music by Eubie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle. Based loosely on Miller and Lyles’ vaudeville act “The Mayor of Dixie,” the show told the story of a heated mayoral election in Jimtown, Dixieland. Lively dancing and memorable songs—including “I’m J...
May 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 22, 2022 14:00 - 1 minute - 2.04 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 22. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first black Brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Davis studied at the University of Chicago before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1932. Upon his graduation, he was swiftly promoted to lieutenant colonel, and he organized the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first entirely African American air unit, which flew tactical support missions in the Medite...
May 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 22, 2022 13:18 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 21. Lowell Perry was confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission. He was an American football player and coach, government official, businessman, and broadcaster. Perry was the first African-American assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL), the first African American to broadcast an NFL game to a national audience, and Chrysler's first African-American plant manager. Perry attended the University of...
May 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.81 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 20. Emancipation in the State of Florida was proclaimed. On May 20, 1865, Union Brigadier Gen. Edward McCook formally announced President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation from the steps of the Knott House in Tallahassee. President Abraham Lincoln signed this proclamation on January 1, 1863, but it was not enforced in the South. On June 19th, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Tex...
May 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 19, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.71 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 19. Malcolm X was born. He was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, and best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm's father, Earl Little, was a leader in an African-American group. This caused the family to be harassed by white supremacists. When Malcolm was six, his father was found dead on the tracks of the...
May 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
May 18, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes - 2.26 MBBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 18. Anna Julia Cooper delivered an address at the World’s Congress of Representative Women. She was an American educator and writer whose book "A Voice From the South by a Black Woman of the South" (1892) became a classic African American feminist text. Born into slavery in 1858, Cooper went on to receive a world-class education and claim power and prestige in academic and social circles. She was also a prominent member of Washingt...