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- The first black member of the New York Stock Exchange was Joseph Searles III in 1970.
- The first African American to serve on the board of the New York Stock Exchange was Jerome H. Holland.
- In Africa, the Nile river flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
- The first African American in the 19th century to achieve national recognition as a major poet was Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He worked as an elevator operator when his first volume of poetry was published in 1893.
- In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy was a man of “mixed” racial heritage who sued to have the separate but equal law overturned in Louisiana.
- In 1983, Charles Rangel became the first black ‘Deputy Whip’ in the House Of Representatives.
- In 1951, Lillian W. Burke was admitted to the Ohio bar and she became Ohio’s first black judge in 1969.
- The original inhabitants of the African rain forest are the Pygmies – ethnic groups, primarily hunter-gatherers, who are distinguished by their small stature.
- The first African American to sing in Boston’s Symphony Hall was Roland Hayes in 1917.
- The Black Codes were passed by the Southern legislatures to govern the conduct of slaves and later, to restrict the rights of blacks
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