1- Black Fact = 1711 (October 17) – Jupiter Hammon, the first published black poet, was born a slave in New York on this date in 1711.
2- Black Fact = 1817 (October 17) – Samuel Ringgold Ward, author and abolitionist minister, was born in Maryland on this date in 1817. Ward was widely known as the “Black Daniel Webster.”
3- Black Fact = 1956 ( October 17) – Dr. Mae Carol Jemison, the first black woman to travel in space, was born in Decatur, AL, on this date in 1956.
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