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- The old negro spiritual Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen was popularized by Harry T. Burleigh. Both he and Roland Hayes won Spingarn medals for preserving early African-American Music.
- The Founding Fathers felt that the slave trade of the time was beyond their control so therefore slavery is not mentioned at all in the Declaration Of Independence.
- The popular African-American wedding tradition of “jumping the broom” symbolizes sweeping away the old and welcoming the new.
- In 1915, Robert R. Moton succeeded Booker T. Washington as the President of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University).
- In 1930, Robert R. Moton was named Chairman Of The Commission on Inter-racial cooperation.
- John H. Johnson founded his own publishing company which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines.
- In 1925, actor Paul Robeson gained critical acclaim for his performance in the movie The Emperor Jones.
- The white abolitionist who led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1958 was John Brown. He was hanged as a traitor but became a hero of the anti-slavery movement.
- In the African language of Swahili, kemba means faithful and halima means gentle.
- On December 1, 1935, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. This led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and the end of segregation on Montgomery buses.
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