BLACK HISTORY MONTH FACTS
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* Dr. Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 - now known as Black History Month! * Hal Jackson was the 1st radio personality to broadcast 3 daily shows on 3 different NY stations! * We salute pop icon Michael Jackson for selling over 750 million albums, winning 13 Grammy’s and topping the charts with 13 No. 1 singles * Wilt Chamberlain, the 1st NBA player to score 100 points in a single game (1961) * Thurgood Marshall, the first black man ever appointed to the US Supreme Court * Lorraine Hansberry wrote “A Raisin In The Sun” which was the 1st black female written play that has gone onto Broadway * Thomas Jennings was the 1st black man to receive a patent for a dry-cleaning process (1821) Civil Rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois was the 1st black man to receive a Ph.D from Harvard * Benjamin Banneker helped design the blueprints for the city of Washington, D.C. * Today, we remember Jack Johnson, the 1st black man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion Boxing Title (1908) * In 1939, Jane Bolin became the 1st black female judge in the US * Booker T. Washington is the first black man to be depicted on a U.S. stamp (1940). * In 1968, Shirley Chisholm was the 1st black woman elected to Congress |