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Black Fact = (1962)Mahalia Jackson
Black Fact = 1911 (October 26) – Mahalia Jackson, perhaps the world’s greatest gospel singer of all-time, was born in New ... -
Black Fact = (1966)Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton
Black Fact = 1966 (October 15) – After drafting a “Ten Point Program,” Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded ... -
Black Fact = (1834) Henry Blair
Black Fact = 1834 – (October 13) – Henry Blair, inventor, patented the Corn Planter on this date in 1834. ... -
Black Fact = (1823) Mary Ann Shadd
Black Fact = 1823 – (October 9) – Mary Ann Shadd, publisher of the Provincial Freeman, was born in Wilmington, ... -
Black Fact = (1934) Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroy Jones)
Black Fact = 1934 (October 7) – Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroy Jones), poet and activist, was born in Newark, NJ, ... -
Black Fact = (1904) Mary McLeod Bethune
Black Fact = 1904 (October 3) – Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, opened Bethune-Cookman College, originally named ... -
Black Fact = (1822) Hiram Rhodes Revels
Black Fact = 1822 (September 27) – Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black U.S. Senator (Mississippi), was born in Fayetteville, NC, ... -
Black Fact = (1886) Peter “Black Prince” Jackson
Black Fact = 1886 (September 25) – Peter “Black Prince” Jackson, a native of the Virgin Islands, won the Australian ... -
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 ... -
Black Fact = (1989) Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks
Black Fact = 1989 (September 19) – Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks, filmmaker and the first black person to direct a ...