1- Black Fact = 1969 (May 5) Moneta Sleet, Jr. won the “Pulitzer Prize” in photography on this date in 1969. Sleet was awarded the “Pulitzer Prize” for a photograph of Mrs. Coretta Scott King and daughter, Bernice, at Dr. King’s funeral. #theraydiotwins
2- Black Fact = 1865 (May 5)- Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., activist, was born in Virginia on this date in 1865.
3- Black Fact = 1905 (May 5) – Robert Sengstacke Abbott began publishing the Chicago Defender, the city’s first black newspaper, on this date in 1905.
4- Black Fact = 1911 (May 5)- James A. Bland, writer of over 600 songs including “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” Virginia’s state song as of 1940, died on this date in 1911.
5- Black Fact = 1988 (May 5)- Eugene Antonio Marion was installed as the first black Archbishop in the United States on this date in 1988.
