Black Fact = 1950 (April 20) – Scottsboro Boy, a book by Haywood Patterson, was published on this date in 1950. Patterson was one of the nine black youths falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, AL. #theraydiotwins
Black Fact: (1871) Joseph H. Douglass
Black Fact = 1871 (July 3) –Joseph H. Douglass (1871-1935), celebrated violinist and grandson of Frederick Douglass, was born in Washington, DC, on this date ...