Lorenzo Johnson

In 1961, Leontyne Price received a 42 minute ovation when she debuted with the Metropolitan Opera Company. The FIRST black settlers in the American colonies worked as indentured servants. John Rolfe’s diary records 20 black indentured servants in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. The team which once featured the talents of Goose Tatum, Sweet Willie Oliver … Read moreBlack History Day 29

The first black woman All-American basketball player was Missouri Arledge in 1955. More commonly known as “Big Mo”, she played for Philander Smith College. The FIRST black mayor of Los Angeles was Thomas Bradley in 1972. He served in that post for 20 years and retired in 1992. In 1939, Fredrick M. Jones received a … Read moreBlack History Day 28

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 … Read moreBlack History Day 27

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 … Read moreBlack History Day 26

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 … Read moreBlack History Day 25