1- Black Fact = 1999 (April 20)- Rosa Parks won the Congressional Medal of Honor on this date in 1999. Parks was given the award for her act of defiance and courage in not giving up her bus seat to a white man in 1955, inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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2- Black Fact = 1984 (April 20)- Mabel Alice Mercer, popular singer, died on this date in 1984. Some of her popular songs were: “Mabel Mercer Sings Cole Porter” (1955), “Once in a Blue Moon” (1959), and “At Town Hall” with Bobby Short (1968.
3- Black Fact = 1982 (April 20) – Leontyne Price, world-renowned opera singer, opened a convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution on this date in 1982.
