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Black Fact = (1711,1817 & 1956) Hammon,Ward & Jemison
1- Black Fact = 1711 (October 17) – Jupiter Hammon, the first published black poet, was born a slave in ... -
Black Fact = (1968) Tommie Smith and John Carlos ✊🏽
Black Fact = 1968 (October 15) – Tommie Smith and John Carlos (wearing gloves and socks) rose their fists in ... -
Black Fact = (1834) Henry Blair
Black Fact = 1834 (October 14) – Henry Blair, inventor, patented the Corn Planter on this date in 1834. Henry ... -
Black Fact = (1917 & 1978) Monk & Metcalf
1- Black Fact = 1917 (October 10) – Jazz pianist Theolonius Monk is born in Rocky Mount, NC. He was ... -
Black Fact = (1934,1993,1979,1984 & 1821)Baraka, Morrison, Sampson, Payton & Still
1- Black Fact = 1934 (October 7)- Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroy Jones), poet and activist, was born in Newark, NJ, ... -
Black Fact = (1917 & 1924) Hamer & Lowery
1- Black Fact = 1917 (October 6)- Fannie Lou Hamer, freedom-fighter, activist, and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ... -
Black Fact = (1929,1932 & 1942) Lucy,Anderson & Burke
1- Black Fact = 1929 (October 5) – Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first black student at the University of Alabama, ... -
Black Fact = (1982) Herman Marion Sweatt
Black Fact = 1982 (September 4) – Herman Marion Sweatt, the plaintiff in the infamous Sweatt v. Painter separate-but-equal decision, ... -
Black Fact = (1962) James Meredith
Black Fact = 1962 (October 1)- James Meredith became the first black student to register at the University of Mississippi ... -
Black Fact (1947) Jackie Robinson
Black Fact = 1947 (September 30)- Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the major leagues, became the first ...