Denzel WashingtonActor/Director, Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. Was Born December 28, 1954.A Native Of Mount Vernon, New York, The Two-Time, Academy Award-Winning Actor Received A B.A. In Drama And Journalism From Fordham University In 1977.Washington ...
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Madame CJ Walker
Madam C.J. Walker, Whose Birth Name Was Sarah Breedlove, Was Born December 23, 1857, In Delta Louisiana. She Was The First Member Of Her Family To Be Born Free.She Made Her Fortune By Developing And Marketing A Hugely Successful L ...
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Bill Russell
William Felton "Bill" Russell Played His First Game With The NBA's Bonston Celtics On This Date In 1956.
In 1966, Russell Was Named Coach Of the Boston Celtics, Making Him The First Black Head Coach Of A Major Professional Spor ...
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On December 21, 1976, Patricia Roberts Harris Was Named Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development (HUD), By President Jimmy Carter - Making Her America's First Black Female Cabinet Member.
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Max Robinson
Max Robinson, America's First Black Broadcast News Anchor, Died On December 20, 1988.
Born In Richmond, Virginia, In 1939, Robinson Began His Career In 1959, At A Television Station In Portsmith, VA. He Eventually Went To Was ...
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Musician, Playwright, Lyricist, Singer And Bandleader, Noble Sissle, Died December 17, 1975. More About Him Ans His Work, In Today's BLACK IN TIME Blog!!
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On December 16, 1976, Andrew Young Was Named The First Black American Ambassador To The United Nations.
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On December 16, 1976, Andrew Young Was Named The First Black American Ambassador To The United Nations.
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Jupiter Hammon
America's First Black Poet, Jupiter Hammon, Was Born October 17, 1711.
On December 15, 1761, Hammon Published "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries." This Was The First Single Poem Published By An ...
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John Mercer Langston
The Man Credited With Being America's First Black Elected Official, John Mercer Langston, Was Born December 14, 1829, In Louisa County, Virginia.The Son Of A Virginia Planter And Slave Mother, Langston Was Freed At Age ...
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Black WAVES
On This Day, In 1944, Black American Women Were Sworn In, For The First Time, To The Women Accepted For Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES), A Women's Naval Reserve.The WAVES Were The First Women's Branch Of The U.S. Armed For ...
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Otis Redding
One Of The Purest Voices In Soul Music Was Silenced On December 10, 1967. R&B Legend, Otis Redding, Was Killed, Along With Six Other People (Including Memebers Of The R&B Group, The Bar-Kays), When His Private Plane Cr ...
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Comic Legend, John Elroy Sanford, Better Known As Redd Foxx, Was Born December 9, 1922, In St. Louis, Missouri. Foxx Grew Up On Chicago's South Side.CLICK THE LINK To Read More In The BLACK IN TIME Blog, Previously Posted Oct. 11, 2010.http://www ...
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Flip Wilson
Born Clerow Wilson On December 8, 1933, In Jersey City, New Jersey, Comedian, Flip Wilson, Was Given His Nickname By His Air Force Buddies Who Said He "Flipped Them Out" With His Humor.Flip Wilson Made History By Becoming Televis ...
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On December 7, 1941, Japanese War Planes Attacked Pearl Harbor.On That Day, Doris "Dorie" Miller Became The First Hero Of World War II.CLICK THE LINK To Read More From The BLACK IN TIME Blog - Previously Posted May 27, 2010.http://www.blackintime.in ...
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Dr. T. K. Lawless
Dermatologist, Medical Researcher And Philanthropist, Doctor Theodore K. Lawless, Was Born December 6, 1892, In Thibodeaux, Louisiana.Dr. Lawless Was Known For His Work Related To Syphilis, Leprosy And The Use Of Radium In ...
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Frederick Douglass
One Of America's Pioneering Black Journalists, Frederick Douglass Published The North Star Newspaper On December 3, 1847, In Rochester, New York. The Paper's Slogan Was: "Right Is Of No Sex --- Truth Is Of No Color --- God Is T ...
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John Brown
On December 2, 1859, Abolitionist, John Brown, Was Hanged, For Treason, In Charles Town, West Virginia.On October 16 Of The Same Year, Brown Led 21 Men, Including Two Of His Sons And Five Blacks, In An Attack On Harpers Ferry, West Virg ...
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Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, A Mild-Mannered, Alabama Seamstress Named Rosa Parks, Changed The Course Of The Modern Black Civil Rights Movement.Tired From A Long Day's Work, She Refused To Give Up Her Bus Seat To A White Man. Consequent ...
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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
United States Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Was Born On November 29, 1908, In New Haven Connecticut.Powell Began His Career As A Minister At Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, ( Which His Father, Had Previously Pas ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 8:31PM
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin, The The King Of Ragtime, Was Supposedly Born Near Texarkana, Texas, On November 24, 1868 (Some Sources List 1867).A Skilled Pianist And Composer, Scott Joplin Started A 20-Year Ragtime Craze, With The 1897 Release Of His ...
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A. J. Beard's Jenny CouplerPatent No. 594.059 Was Awarded November 23, 1897, To Black Inventor, Andrew Jackson Beard.Despite Having No Formal Education In Engineering And Metalwork, Beard Invented An Automatic Railroad Car Coupling Device Called The ...
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