Black Fact = (1958) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Black Fact = 1958 (September 20) – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and civil rights activist, was stabbed in the chest while signing books in a Harlem department store on this date. The attacker, a mentally disturbed woman, was apprehended and placed under observation. #theraydiotwins

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Black Fact =(1923)Bessie Smith

Black Fact = 1923 (Feb. 16) – On this day Bessie Smith makes her first recording, “Down Hearted Blues,” which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia ...