{"id":368,"date":"2008-02-28T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-02-29T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T18:54:42","slug":"black-history-day-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/black-history-day-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The first black woman All-American basketball player was Missouri Arledge<\/a> in 1955. More commonly known as “Big Mo”, she played for Philander Smith College.<\/li>\n
  2. The FIRST black mayor of Los Angeles was Thomas Bradley<\/a> in 1972. He served in that post for 20 years and retired in 1992.<\/li>\n
  3. In 1939, Fredrick M. Jones<\/a> received a patent for a machine that dispensed movie tickets and change. Think about that the next time you go to a movie.<\/li>\n
  4. The Tuskegee Experiment trained African American pilots for combat in World War II in 1942.<\/li>\n
  5. The Martin Luther Jr. Memorial Center<\/a> is housed in Atlanta, GA., which is where the Ebenezer Baptist church is located as well as Freedom Hall.<\/li>\n
  6. In 1869, ex-slave Fannie Jackson Coppin<\/a> became Principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Pennsylvania. Today this school is now Cheyney Univ.<\/li>\n
  7. The FIRST black poet to speak out against slavery was George Moses Horton<\/a> in his 1829 volume of poetry Hope of Liberty<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  8. In 1992, Dominique Dawes<\/a> and Elizabeth Okino<\/a> became the first black American athletes to compete in gymnastics.<\/li>\n
  9. Madame C.J. Walker<\/a> was born in Delta, Louisiana with the birth name of Sarah Breedlove.<\/li>\n
  10. Half the WORLD’S diamonds are produced in the African countries of South Africa, Botswana and Zaire.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The first black woman All-American basketball player was Missouri Arledge in 1955. More commonly known as “Big Mo”, she played for Philander Smith College. The FIRST black mayor of Los Angeles was Thomas Bradley in 1972. He served in that post for 20 years and retired in 1992. In 1939, Fredrick M. Jones received a … Read moreBlack History Day 28<\/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\/368"}],"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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}