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- The BLACK mathematician who was a surveyor on the team that planned the District of Columbia was Benjamin Banneker in 1790.
- Africa is a continent and not a country. It is the only continent whose land occupies all 4 hemispheres.
- The form of civil rights protest which began with a bus ride through the in the 1960’s was “The Freedom Rides“. The riders challenged segregation in interstate bus travel.
- In 1948, Bill Spiller, Ted Rhodes and Madison Gunner filed a racial discrimination suit against the Professional Golfers Association (PGA). As a result of the discrimination suit, the PGA abolished its “whites only” policy.
- The FIRST BLACK FEMALE mayor of Washington, D.C. was Sharon Pratt Kelly in 1990.
- The BLACK MAN who served as surgeon to the US Colored Troops in the Civil War was Dr. Alexander T. Augusta. In 1865, he became the first black doctor to head a hospital in the US at Freedmen’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.
- One of the earliest African American Women to win fame as a sculptor was Edmonia Lewis.
- The two great prizefighters who met in the first heavyweight title bout ever held in Africa were Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in 1974 in the country of Zaire.
- The Free African Society was founded in 1787 by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones. Organized in Philadelphia, the group gained a national reputation for promoting Black Pride.
- The botanist who came to be known as ‘The Peanut Man’ was George Washington Carver who found 300 products that could be made from peanuts, including printer’s ink and a milk substitute.
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