{"id":328,"date":"2008-02-06T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:53:04","slug":"black-history-month-day-5-and-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/black-history-month-day-5-and-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month – Day 5 and Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must apologize to everyone for not posting anything on Tuesday February 5th for Black History Month. I was so geared and following everything for the primary election polls that I actually believed that I had sent it until I realized TODAY that I myself had not received anything that I claimed to have sent on on my own internet listserv. So when I checked in my sent files the last day I saw was for Monday February 4th, 2008. Since February 6th is not over yet I am still on time for Feb 6th. But again, I apologize for omitting the 5th.<\/p>\n

With that said, in order to compensate for the lack of information for Black History Month for February 5th, I shall merely combine both days. So today you get 20 facts and not just 10 of them. Remember that it is Black History Month so “walk with pride.”<\/p>\n

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  1. The FIRST African American to win a singles title at Wimbledon was Althea Gibson<\/a>. She won BOTH the Wimbledon and US Open singles titles in 1957 and 1958.<\/li>\n
  2. The FIRST African American senator [PERIOD] was elected to the United States Senate in 1870 only 6 years after signing of the Emancipation Proclamation<\/a>. His name was Hiram R. Revels<\/a> and he represented the slave state of Mississippi.<\/li>\n
  3. The first open heart surgery was performed in 1893 by a black man by the name of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams<\/a> at Provident Hospital in Chicago.<\/li>\n
  4. In African society slaves were taken from ALL classes. Upper class and lower class. Many nobles had become slaves as a result of inter-tribal wars.<\/li>\n
  5. The first African American to sing a leading role in the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York was Marian Anderson<\/a> in 1955.<\/li>\n
  6. In 1857, the US Supreme Court decided a slave named Dred Scott<\/a> was still a slave even though he had traveled with his master to a free territory and had resided in free Illinois.<\/li>\n
  7. The FIRST African American to coach an NBA team was Bill Russell<\/a> in 1966. As the coach of the Boston Celtics he led the team to two NBA championships.<\/li>\n
  8. In 1880 at Storer College, Fredrick Douglas<\/a> delivered a speech which declared “education means light and liberty.”<\/li>\n
  9. The African river named “The Congo” is the only river that crosses the equator twice and is 10 miles in width in “certain” areas.<\/li>\n
  10. The great Jazz musician whose signature tune was “Take the A train” was Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington<\/a>. The song refers to a New York City subway train that stops in Harlem.<\/li>\n
  11. The Niagara Movement<\/a>, which supported voting rights for African Americans, was founded by W.E.B. Dubois<\/a> in 1905. It led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909.<\/li>\n
  12. Apartheid ‘officially’ ended in south Africa in 1991. It was the governmental policy of racial segregation.<\/li>\n
  13. The name that was given to the period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City was called The Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, which emerged after World War I.<\/li>\n
  14. The famous song that Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie collaborated on was called “We Are The World<\/a>” and the proceeds went to benefit African Famine Relief.<\/li>\n
  15. The FIRST African American to sit on the Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall<\/a> who served from 1967 to 1991.<\/li>\n
  16. The FIRST BLACK WOMAN to obtain a license to fly a plane was Bessie Coleman<\/a>. She was prevented from entering a flight school in the United States so she studied aviation in France and returned to the United States in 1921 to get her license.<\/li>\n
  17. The pyramid at Giza were originally built as tombs. Built for the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, they are the oldest monumental construction on earth.<\/li>\n
  18. The governor who used the “stand at the door” tactic in his attempt to stop integration of the University of Alabama was George Wallace in 1963.<\/li>\n
  19. The major league baseball franchise which was the first to sign up a BLACK AMERICAN player was the Brooklyn Dodgers. They signed Jackie Robinson<\/a>, who played his first big league game in 1947.<\/li>\n
  20. The FIRST Black Woman to ever run for U.S. VICE-President was Charlotta Spears<\/a> in 1952. She was a member of the Progressive Party and ran on the same ticket with Vincent Halina.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There ya go. All 20 of them for February 5th and February 6th. I shall try to stay on top of things regarding Black History Month from here on out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I must apologize to everyone for not posting anything on Tuesday February 5th for Black History Month. I was so geared and following everything for the primary election polls that I actually believed that I had sent it until I realized TODAY that I myself had not received anything that I claimed to have sent … Read moreBlack History Month – Day 5 and Day 6<\/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\/328"}],"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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}