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- The George Washington Carver National Monument is located in Missouri, near the city of Diamond. It is the FIRST National Monument honoring an African American.
- The 20th century statesman who became Undersecretary General of the United Nations in 1968 was Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche.
- The journalist who won an Emmy for her reporting on PBS-TV’s MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour is Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who was also one of the FIRST black students at the University Of Georgia.
- The capital city of Senegal is Dakar, port on Africa’s western coast.
- The amendment to the United States Constitution which granted black Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law was the Fourteenth amendment. It passed on July 28, 1868.
- In 1988, Ron Brown was the FIRST black chairman of the Democratic Party and in 1993 he was appointed to the Presidential Cabinet as the Secretary Of Commerce.
- Blenda J. Wilson was Chancellor of the University of Michigan at Dearborn from 1988 to 1992. She was the first woman to head a public university in Michigan.
- The Ivory Coast [of Africa] received its name for its elephant tusks obtained mainly from forest elephants.
- Newport Gardner was one of the first noted black music teachers in America. He taught singing and his school (est. in 1791) attracted both black and white students.
- The US Supreme Court decision which declared school segregation unconstitutional was Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka in 1954.
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