{"id":344,"date":"2008-02-16T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:50:21","slug":"black-history-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/black-history-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. In 1809, Thomas Paul founded the Abyssinian Baptist Church<\/a> in New York City.<\/li>\n
  2. In 1821, Thomas L. Jennings<\/a> was the FIRST African-American to file a patent. This patent was for a dry cleaning process known as ‘dry scouring’.<\/li>\n
  3. The distinguished gospel singer who performed at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 was Mahalia Jackson<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. The escape system used by slaves to find safety in the north was the underground railroad<\/a> (with stations along the way as well as conductors who assisted the slaves).<\/li>\n
  5. In 1996, the first athlete to win both the 200 and the 400 meter races (at the same event) was a black man named Michael Johnson<\/a>. He ran the 200 meters in a world record time of 19.32 seconds.<\/li>\n
  6. The first BLACK WOMAN to be appointed a US ambassador was Patricia Roberts Harris<\/a>. She was named ambassador to Luxembourg.<\/li>\n
  7. The first science book written by an African American to be housed in the Library Of Congress is titled Almanac<\/em> by Benjamin Banneker<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. The African continent is mostly desert and grassland. Savanna grasses grow up to 12 feet high in some regions.<\/li>\n
  9. Author Toni Morrison<\/a> won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n
  10. More than 200,000 protesters marched on Washington, D.C. in 1963 to demand civil rights reform. The march initiated a congressional campaign to give priority to legislation in this area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In 1809, Thomas Paul founded the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. In 1821, Thomas L. Jennings was the FIRST African-American to file a patent. This patent was for a dry cleaning process known as ‘dry scouring’. The distinguished gospel singer who performed at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 was Mahalia Jackson. The … Read moreBlack History Day 16<\/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\/344"}],"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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}