Black History
Ella Fitzgerald was the first African American woman to win a Grammy Award, 1958. Over the course of her career, Fitzgerald won thirteen Grammies, sold over 40 million records, performed for 58 years, and was inducted into the National Woman’s Hall of Fame.
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Jill Elaine Brown was the first African American woman to be admitted into the U.S. Navy flight training program. And in 1978 became the first African-American female pilot to fly for a major U.S. commercial airline.
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In 1909, Matthew Henson became the first African American explorer of the North Pole.
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1921, Bessie Coleman became the first American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license.
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Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler was the first African American woman doctor in the United States. She completed medical school at the New England Female Medical College and received her M.D. in 1864
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William Wells Brown, African American lecturer, groundbreaking novelist, playwright, and historian. Widely considered to have been the first African American to publish works in several major literary genres. Known for his political activism especially involvement with the anti-slavery movement
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Mae Jemison: First African American Woman in Space
On Sept. 12, 1992, aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, Mae Jemison and six other astronauts completed 126 orbits around the Earth. A mission specialist, she was a co-investigator of two bone cell research experiments.
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After negotiating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and four Arab states, in 1950, Ralph Bunche became the first African American and person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The St. Augustine movement was a part of the wider Civil Rights Movement, taking place in St. Augustine, Florida from 1963 to 1964. It was a major event in the city's long history and had a role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Alexandria Library sit-in was one of the first acts of civil disobedience of its type in United States history involving racial discrimination and is credited with pioneering the use of nonviolent direct action.
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Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes an influential fashion designer best known for helping to create the iconic Playboy Bunny costume. She was the first Black designer to open her own shop, which was the first Black-owned business on Broadway in NYC.
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1950: Gwendolyn Brooks is the first Black poet to win a Pulitzer Prize.
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At 24, Alice Coachman became the first African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal when she competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
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1956, Gladys West was hired as a mathematician by the U.S. Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia. There she would program a computer to accurately model the Earth, an accomplishment that became the foundation for the Global Positioning System (GPS) we use today.
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1916, Alice Ball, first African American and first woman to graduate with a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, invents a treatment for Hansen’s disease (otherwise known as leprosy).
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Black History is America's History
Dubbed “Hip-Hop’s First Godmother”, singer and music producer Sylvia Robinson produced the first-ever commercially successful rap record: “Rapper’s Delight,” by the Sugar Hill Gang. And along with her husband, she co-owned the first hip-hop label, Sugar Hill Records.
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Guion Bluford became the first Black person in space in 1983, and would spend 688 hours there over the course of his career as an astronaut.
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On September 25, 1957, nine Black students courageously started their first full day at an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid an angry mob of students, pro-segregationist groups and a defiant governor.
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Frederick McKinley Jones invented the air-cooling units used in food transporting trucks in the 1930s, and was awarded more than 60 patents over the course of his life, 40 of which involved refrigeration equipment.
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The first successful open-heart surgery was performed in 1893 by a black surgeon named Dr. Daniel Hale William.
He also founded the first hospital that employed black healthcare workers.
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From 1870 to 1940, “Black people accounted for more inventions during this period than immigrants from every country except England and Germany.” Innovations like the traffic light (Garrett Morgan), modern refrigeration (Frederick McKinley Jones), and automatic elevator doors (Alexander Miles)
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Marcenia Lyle "Toni" Stone (July 17, 1921 - November 2, 1996) was the first woman to play professional baseball for a previously all-men's major-league team
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Born in 1917, Mamie Phipps Clark became a pioneer of child development studies, spearheading research that became pivotal in the ending of racial segregation in schools.
The Clark’s research became the ethical basis for the NAACP's case in Brown Vs the board of Education.
I have a 14yo Prius hybrid that I'll keep driving until she can't go anymore. A plug in hybrid would be my new car purchase if I had the 💰
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The historian was the second Black student to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree. His incredible research led to the establishment of Black History Month in 1926. It later became a nationally recognized annual event in 1976
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Orange cat with a pink nose sleeping on a blanket with his paw under his face.
My sweet baby, Macaroni 🧡
On my way to work earlier this week. Texas does show off some days.
