{"id":327,"date":"2008-02-04T14:49:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:53:59","slug":"black-history-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/black-history-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. In 1934, the state of Illinois elected A BLACK MAN by the name of Arthur W. Mitchell<\/a> as its first black democrat in Congress [House of Representatives].<\/li>\n
  2. In 1957, Blanche Calloway<\/a> [sister of Cab Calloway] joined radio station WMBM in Miami, Florida and became its first BLACK Executive Director.<\/li>\n
  3. The Golden Stool<\/a> is a symbol of Unity and Strength to the Ashanti people of Africa. It is a part of every household’s furniture.<\/li>\n
  4. ‘The Grave Of the Unknown Soldier’ memorial in Hawaii was designed by a BLACK MAN named Paul R. Williams<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. The purpose of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation<\/a> was to free the slaves of the confederate states n rebellion against the Union.<\/li>\n
  6. In 1876, a former Tennessee slave named Nat Love<\/a> came to be known as Deadwood Dick when he outperformed all the other cowboys at a rodeo in Deadwood, South Dakota.<\/li>\n
  7. In 1901, a famous educator and social reformer named Booker T. Washington<\/a> wrote Up From Slavery<\/em><\/a> which was his autobiography that expressed his belief in education and hard work.<\/li>\n
  8. A BLACK MAN by the name of Michael Croslin invented the Medtech 410 in order to measure blood pressure. He also founded Medtech Corp in 1978.<\/li>\n
  9. In 1945, Liberia was one of the FOUNDING members of the United Nations [and the first black republic in Africa].<\/li>\n
  10. The crop which FIRST created a demand for slave labor in late 17th century America was tobacco. Colonial farmers were unable to persuade enough workers to emigrate from England to America to do the job.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In 1934, the state of Illinois elected A BLACK MAN by the name of Arthur W. Mitchell as its first black democrat in Congress [House of Representatives]. In 1957, Blanche Calloway [sister of Cab Calloway] joined radio station WMBM in Miami, Florida and became its first BLACK Executive Director. The Golden Stool is a symbol … Read moreBlack History Day 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}