Black Fact = 1936 (Feb. 21) – Barbara Jordan, lawyer, educator, Congresswoman, and the first black person to give the keynote address at a national political convention, was born in Houston, TX, on this date. #theraydiotwins
Black Fact = (1870)Robert Brown Elliott, Robert C. DeLarge, & Joseph H. Rainey
Black Fact = 1870 (October 19) – Robert Brown Elliott, Robert C. DeLarge, and Joseph H. Rainey, all South Carolinians, became the first blacks elected ...