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June 6 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 s...
June 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 05, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 ac...
June 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 04, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.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 Birmin...
June 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 Colu...
June 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 02, 2022 14:04 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 si...
June 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 01, 2022 14:29 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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...
May 31 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 31, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 ...
May 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 B...
May 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 atte...
May 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 t...
May 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 t...
May 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 26, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.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 pros...
May 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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 E...
May 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 minutePatti 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 t...
May 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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. ...
May 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 22, 2022 14:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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...
May 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 22, 2022 13:18 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.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 i...
May 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.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. Pre...
May 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 19, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.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. Mal...
May 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 18, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.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 Americ...
May 17 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 17, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 17. Patricia Bath patented an apparatus that removes cataracts. She was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, and academic. Bath also became the first woman member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-grad...
May 16 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 16, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 16. Janet Jackson was born. She is an American singer and actress, one of the most popular recording artists of the 1980s and ’90s. The youngest of nine siblings in Motown’s famed Jackson family, Janet Jackson parlayed her family’s su...
May 15 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 15. Camilla Williams became the first black woman to act in a leading role in a major American opera company. She trained at Virginia State College, now Virginia State University, and received her bachelor's degree in music education. B...
May 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 14, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 14. Clara Stanton Jones was born. She was the first African-American president of the American Library Association and the first African American and the first woman to serve as director of a major library system in America, as director...
May 13 - Blackfacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 13. Stevie Wonder was born. He is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind from birth and raised in inner-cit...
May 12 - Blackfacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 12, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 12. Ving Rhames was born. He is an American actor, best known for his starring role as Luther Stickell in the "Mission: Impossible" film series and his supporting role as gang kingpin Marsellus Wallace in "Pulp Fiction". He was born an...
May 11 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 11, 2022 13:57 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 11. William Grant Still was born. He was the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States. Though a prolific composer of operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works, he was best known for his...
May 10 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 10, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 10. Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first black president of South Africa. In 1944, he joined the African National Congress (ANC), a black political organization dedicated to winning rights for the black majority in white-ruled South ...
May 9 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 09, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 9. Tony Gwynn was born. He was an American professional baseball right fielder, who played 20 seasons (1982–2001) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, and considered one of the best and most consistent hitters in bas...
May 8 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 08, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 8. Carole Gist was born. She is an American TV host, model and first African American woman to win the Miss USA title. Throughout her reign as Miss USA, Gist captivated audiences with her stories of being from a single-parent home wher...
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