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Black Fact = (1966) Robert C. Henry
Black Facts = 1966 (Dec.3) Robert C. Henry became the first African American to serve as mayor of a city ... -
Black Fact = (1872) John Roy Lynch
Black Facts = 1872 ( Jan. 2) – At age 24, John Roy Lynch was elected Speaker of the House ... -
Black Fact = (1952) Fletcher Hamilton Henderson
Black Fact = 1952 (Dec.29) – Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, talented arranger and bandleader, died on this date. Henderson performed with ... -
Black Fact = (1875) William J. Whipper
Black Fact = 1859 (Dec. 16) – William J. Whipper was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of Charleston, SC, ... -
Black Fact = (1973) Rev. S. Howard Woodson
Black Fact = 1973 – (Dec. 10) – Rev. S. Howard Woodson became the first black Speaker of a state ... -
Blacks Fact = (1964) J. Raymond Jones
Blacks Fact = 1964 (Dec. 3) – J. Raymond Jones became the first black person to chair a major Democratic ... -
Black Fact = (1847) -Douglass & Delany
Black Fact = 1847 (Dec. 2)- Frederick Augustus Douglass and Martin Robinson Delany published the first issue of the North ... -
Black Fact = (1988) Toni Morrison
Black Fact = 1988 (November 16) – Novelist, Toni Morrison, won the “Elmer Holmes Bobst Award” in Arts and Letters ... -
Black Fact = (1970) William L. Dawson (Politician)
Black Fact = 1970 (November 9) – William L. Dawson, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, the first black Vice Chairman of the ...
