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Blacks Fact = (1964) J. Raymond Jones
Blacks Fact = 1964 (Dec. 3) – J. Raymond Jones became the first black person to chair a major Democratic ... -
Black Fact = (1847) -Douglass & Delany
Black Fact = 1847 (Dec. 2)- Frederick Augustus Douglass and Martin Robinson Delany published the first issue of the North ... -
Black Fact = (1988) Toni Morrison
Black Fact = 1988 (November 16) – Novelist, Toni Morrison, won the “Elmer Holmes Bobst Award” in Arts and Letters ... -
Black Fact = (1970) William L. Dawson (Politician)
Black Fact = 1970 (November 9) – William L. Dawson, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, the first black Vice Chairman of the ... -
Black Fact = (1974) James Theodore Holly
Black Fact = 1874 (November 8 ) – James Theodore Holly, a black man who emigrated to Haiti, was consecrated ... -
Black Fact = (1785 & 1829) David Walker
Black Fact = 1785 & 1829 (September 28) – David Walker, abolitionist and author, was born on this date in ... -
Black Fact = (1970) Jimi Hendrix
Black Fact = 1970 (September 18) – Jimi Hendrix dies at the age of 27. Born in 1942, in Seattle, ... -
Black Fact = (1983)Vanessa L. Williams
Black Fact = 1983 (September 16) – Vanessa L. Williams, a 21-year-old junior at Syracuse University, captured the 1984 “Miss ... -
Black Fact = (1999) Serena Williams
Black Fact = 1999 (September 11) – Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women’s tennis grand slam on this date ... -
Black Fact = (1993)Jocelyn Minnie Elders
Black Fact= 1993 (September 7) – Jocelyn Minnie Elders became the first black U.S. Surgeon General on this date in ...