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Black Fact = (1997) Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt (Gijaga)
Black Fact = 1997 (June 10) – Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt (Gijaga), former Black Panther leader, was released from prison on ... -
Black Fact=(1877 & 1954) MetaVaux Warick-Fuller & Alain LeRoy Locke
1- Black Fact = 1877 ( June 9) – MetaVaux Warick-Fuller, sculptor, was born in Philadelphia, PA, on this date ... -
Black Fact = (1982) Leroy “Satchel” Paige
Black Fact= 1982 ( June 8) – Leroy “Satchel” Paige, the first Negro League player elected to the Baseball Hall ... -
Black Fact =(1966) Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure’) & James Meredith
1- Black Fact = 1966 ( June 6) – Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Toure’), civil rights activist, launched the “Black Power” ... -
Black Fact = (1966) James Meredith
Black Fact = 1966 – James Meredith, the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, began a ... -
Black Fact = (1973) Arna W. Bontemps
Black Fact = 1973 (May 4) – Arna W. Bontemps, poet, author, and educator, died in Nashville, TN, on this ... -
Black Fact = (1949)Wesley A. Brown
Black Fact = 1949 (May 3) – Wesley A. Brown became the first black person to graduate from the Annapolis ... -
Black Fact = (1875 & 1971) – James Augustine Healy & Captain Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr.
1- Black Fact = 1875 (June 2) – James Augustine Healy was consecrated the first black Roman Catholic Bishop in ... -
Black Fact = (1843)Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)
Black Fact = 1843 (June 1) – Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree), preacher, abolitionist, speaker, and women’s rights advocate, began her ... -
Black Fact = (1921) Greenwood Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre
Black Fact = 1921 (May 31) – “Greenwood Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre” The affluent Greenwood section of Tulsa, OK, was destroyed ...