1- Black Fact = 1935 (October 24) – Langston Hughes’ Mulatto, the first black-authored play to become a long-run Broadway hit, opened on this date in 1935.
2- Black Fact = 1940 (October 24)- Robert Lee Vann, publisher, lawyer, and political civil rights leader, died in Philadelphia, PA, on this date in 1940. Vann shaped the Pittsburgh Courier into the leading black paper of its time. He served as its treasurer and later as editor.
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