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TRT-BLACK FACT = (1868) John Hope
Black Fact = 1868- John Hope, educator and Morehouse President, was born on this date in 1868. Born in Augusta, ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1843) Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)
Black Fact = Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree), preacher, abolitionist, speaker, and women’s rights advocate, began her journey to help escaped ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1921) Greenwood Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre
Black Fact = 1921 – “Greenwood Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre” The affluent Greenwood section of Tulsa, OK, was destroyed as black ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1903) Countee Cullen
Black Fact = 1903 -Countee Cullen, poet, was born in Baltimore, MD, on this date. His first book of poetry ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1965) Vivian Malone
Black Fact = 1965 – Vivian Malone became the first black graduate of the University of Alabama on this date ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1970) Huey P. Newton
Black Facts = 1970 – Huey P. Newton’s manslaughter conviction for allegedly killing a police officer was reversed in the ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1963) Medgar Evers
Black Fact = 1963- The home of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, was bombed on this date in 1963. This ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1958) Ernest Gideon Green
Black Fact= 1958 – Ernest Gideon Green,1 of the Little Rock 9) became the first black person to graduate from ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1956) Althea Gibson
Black Fact= 1956- Althea Gibson, tennis legend, won the women’s singles championship in the French Open on this date becoming ... -
TRT-BLACK FACT = (1919) Madame C. J. Walker
Black Fact= 1919- Madame C. J. Walker, the first black millionaire, died in Irvington-on-the-Hudson, NY, on this date in 1919. ...