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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 ... -
Black Fact = (1915) Carter G. Woodson
Black Fact = 1915 (September 9) – Carter Godwin Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” founded the Association for the ... -
Black Fact = (1975) Joseph Woodrow Hatchett
Black Fact = 1975 (September 1) – Joseph Woodrow Hatchett became the fist black State Supreme Court Justice in the South since ... -
Black Fact = (1975) Haile Selassie
Black Fact = 1975 ( August 27) – Haile Selassie, the deposed emperor of Ethiopia, died at age 83 on ... -
Black Fact = (1968) Arthur Ashe
Black Fact = 1968 (August 25) – Arthur Ashe won the U.S. Amateur Men’s Singles Championship on this date in ...