{"id":346,"date":"2008-02-18T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2008-02-29T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:21:22","slug":"black-history-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/black-history-day-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Nat Turner<\/a>‘s infamous rebellion took place in Virginia in 1831 I was the bloodiest slave revolt in US history.<\/li>\n
  2. In 1968, Ralph Abernathy<\/a> led “The Poor People’s March”. People from all over the US assembled in Washington, D.C. to protest poverty and racial discrimination.<\/li>\n
  3. The FIRST black female doctors were Rebecca Lee<\/a>, Rebecca J. Cole<\/a> and Susan M. Stewart<\/a>. Rebecca Lee received her medical degree in 1864 from the New England Female Medical College.<\/li>\n
  4. Madagascar, the large island off the western coast of Africa, is called the Red Soil island because of its clay soil.<\/li>\n
  5. Two songs written by W.C. Handy<\/a> with a city in its title is “St. Louis Blues<\/a>” and “Memphis Blues”.<\/li>\n
  6. The FIRST US President to meet with leaders of the African American Community was Abraham Lincoln (who also supported their agreement for a separate but equal colony.<\/li>\n
  7. The baseball player who said “Don’t look back, something my be gaining on you” was Satchel Paige<\/a>, the greatest pitcher in the history of the baseball’s Negro leagues.<\/li>\n
  8. The FIRST black mayor of the largest city in the US was David Dinkins<\/a> in 1989.<\/li>\n
  9. Lloyd A. Hall<\/a> made important contributions to the meat packing industry. He held more than 73 patents, mainly in the field of curing meats.<\/li>\n
  10. Countee Cullen<\/a> was one of the best known poets of the Harlem Renaissance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Nat Turner‘s infamous rebellion took place in Virginia in 1831 I was the bloodiest slave revolt in US history. In 1968, Ralph Abernathy led “The Poor People’s March”. People from all over the US assembled in Washington, D.C. to protest poverty and racial discrimination. The FIRST black female doctors were Rebecca Lee, Rebecca J. Cole … Read moreBlack History Day 18<\/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\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}