-
Black Fact = (1962) Martin Luther King Jr.
Black Fact = 1962 (July 10) – Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Albany, Georgia. Following the unsuccessful ... -
Black Fact= (1893) Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Black Fact = 1893(July 9) – Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world’s first successful open-heart surgery without anesthesia at ... -
Black Fact = ( 1924, 2000 & 1879) Hubbard, Williams & Walters
1- Black Fact = 1924 ( July 8) – William DeHart Hubbard became the first black person to win an ... -
Black Fact = (1906) Leroy “Satchel” Paige
Black Fact= 1906 (July 7) – Leroy “Satchel” Paige, the first Negro League player elected to the Baseball Hall of ... -
Black Fact = (1957) Althea Gibson
Black Fact= 1957 (July 6) – Althea Gibson, tennis legend, won the women’s Wimbledon Singles Championship on this date in ... -
Black Fact = (1852) Frederick Augustus Douglass
Black Fact = 1852 (July 5) – Frederick Augustus Douglass described the Fourth of July as a sham in his ... -
Black Fact =(1881) Booker T. Washington
Black Fact = 1881 (July 4)-Tuskegee Institute opened with a student body of 30 on this date in 1881. Booker ... -
Black Fact = (1962) Jackie Robinson
Black Fact = 1962- Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the major leagues, became the first black person ... -
Black Fact = (1908) Thurgood Marshall
Black Fact= 1908 (July 2) -Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Justice, was born in Baltimore, MD, on this ... -
Black Fact = (1899) Thomas A. Dorsey
Black Fact= 1899 (July 1) – Thomas A. Dorsey, the “Father of Gospel Music,” was born in Villa Rica, GA, ...