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Black Fact = (1892) Sarah Boone
Black Fact = 1892 (April 26) – Sarah Boone, inventor, patented the Ironing Board on this date in 1892. Patent ... -
Black Fact – (1944) Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson
Black Fact = 1944 (April 25) – The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was founded by Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson ... -
Black Fact = (1965) Maj. Gen. Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.
Black Fact = 1965 (April 16) – Assistant Deputy Chief of staff of the US Air Force, Maj. Gen. Benjamin ... -
Black Fact = (1789) Benjamin Banneker
Black Fact = 1789 (April 14) – Benjamin Banneker, inventor, surveyor, mathematician, astronomer, and one of the planners of Washington ... -
Black Fact = (1956) Nat King Cole
Black Fact= 1956 (April 11) – Nat King Cole, world-renowned singer, was attacked by a mob of white supremacists while ... -
Black Fact = (1941) Dr. George Washington Carver
Black Fact = 1941 (April 9) – Dr. George Washington Carver, scientist and discoverer of over 300 products from the peanut ... -
Black Fact = (1968) Bobby Hutton
Black Fact = 1968 (April 6) – Oakland, CA, police killed Black Panther, Bobby Hutton, in a shootout with the ... -
Black Fact = (1990)Sarah Vaughn
Black Fact = 1990 (April 3) – Sarah Vaughn, jazz entertainer, died in San Fernando Valley, CA, on this date in ... -
Black Fact = (1932) Cowboy Bill “Dusky Demon” Pickett
Black Fact = 1932 (April 1) – Cowboy Bill “Dusky Demon” Pickett, inventor of “bull dogging” (steer wresting), died in Williamson ... -
Black Fact = (1870) Thomas Mundy Petersen
Black Fact = 1870 (March 31) – Thomas Mundy Petersen, of Perth Amboy, NJ, became the first black person to vote ...