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- In 1961, Ralph Abernathy succeeded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Miriam Benjamin invented the ‘gong’ signal system which was patented in 1888.
- The SIX countries that make up North Africa are Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara.
- In 1808, President Thomas Jefferson signed a bill into law that made it illegal to import slaves into the US. Of course most southern states refused to enforce the law.
- In 1976, Patricia Roberts Harris was appointed as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Jimmy Carter, making her the FIRST black female Cabinet member.
- In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened a small Florida school for black children. In 1923, the school merged with The Cookman Institute and became Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- Oil is a “very” important resource in North Africa. The Middle East and North Africa supply 37% of the world’s oil.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1965, more commonly known as the Voting Rights Act, outlawed the use of literacy tests and poll taxes that prevented blacks from voting.
- The first Dial Award went to Herschel Walker as the high school scholar/athlete of the year in 1979. The Dial award is presented to outstanding high school athletes.
- In 1960, Marion Barry was the first National Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC] and in 1979 he was elected Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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