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TRT-BLACK FACT = (1965) Vivian Malone
Black Fact = 1965 – Vivian Malone became the first black graduate of the University of Alabama on this date ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1970) Huey P. Newton
Black Facts = 1970 – Huey P. Newton’s manslaughter conviction for allegedly killing a police officer was reversed in the ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1963) Medgar Evers
Black Fact = 1963- The home of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, was bombed on this date in 1963. This ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1958) Ernest Gideon Green
Black Fact= 1958 – Ernest Gideon Green,1 of the Little Rock 9) became the first black person to graduate from ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1956) Althea Gibson
Black Fact= 1956- Althea Gibson, tennis legend, won the women’s singles championship in the French Open on this date becoming ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1919) Madame C. J. Walker
Black Fact= 1919- Madame C. J. Walker, the first black millionaire, died in Irvington-on-the-Hudson, NY, on this date in 1919. ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1954) Dr. Peter Murray Marshall
Black Fact = 1954 – Dr. Peter Murray Marshall became the first black person to head a unit associated with ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1921) Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
Black Fact = 1921- Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along, a pioneer musical featuring Josephine Baker, Florence Mills, Caterina ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1948) Claude McKay and (1967) Langston Hughes
Black Fact = 1948- Claude McKay, novelist, “Harlem Renaissance” poet, and the first black person to write a best seller ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1904)- Thomas “Fats” Waller
Black Fact = 1904- Thomas “Fats” Waller, jazz pianist and composer, was born in New York City on this date ...