{"id":329,"date":"2008-02-07T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:52:42","slug":"black-history-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/black-history-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The BLACK mathematician who was a surveyor on the team that planned the District of Columbia was Benjamin Banneker<\/a> in 1790.<\/li>\n
  2. Africa is a continent and not a country. It is the only continent whose land occupies all 4 hemispheres.<\/li>\n
  3. The form of civil rights protest which began with a bus ride through the in the 1960’s was “The Freedom Rides<\/a>“. The riders challenged segregation in interstate bus travel.<\/li>\n
  4. In 1948, Bill Spiller<\/a>, Ted Rhodes<\/a> and Madison Gunner filed a racial discrimination suit against the Professional Golfers Association (PGA). As a result of the discrimination suit, the PGA abolished its “whites only” policy.<\/li>\n
  5. The FIRST BLACK FEMALE mayor of Washington, D.C. was Sharon Pratt Kelly<\/a> in 1990.<\/li>\n
  6. The BLACK MAN who served as surgeon to the US Colored Troops in the Civil War was Dr. Alexander T. Augusta<\/a>. In 1865, he became the first black doctor to head a hospital in the US at Freedmen’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n
  7. One of the earliest African American Women to win fame as a sculptor was Edmonia Lewis<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. The two great prizefighters who met in the first heavyweight title bout ever held in Africa were Muhammad Ali<\/a> and George Foreman<\/a> held in 1974 in the country of Zaire.<\/li>\n
  9. The Free African Society<\/a> was founded in 1787 by Richard Allen<\/a> and Absalom Jones<\/a>. Organized in Philadelphia, the group gained a national reputation for promoting Black Pride.<\/li>\n
  10. The botanist who came to be known as ‘The Peanut Man’ was George Washington Carver<\/a> who found 300 products that could be made from peanuts, including printer’s ink and a milk substitute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The BLACK mathematician who was a surveyor on the team that planned the District of Columbia was Benjamin Banneker in 1790. Africa is a continent and not a country. It is the only continent whose land occupies all 4 hemispheres. The form of civil rights protest which began with a bus ride through the in … Read moreBlack History Day 7<\/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\/329"}],"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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}