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  • December 22, 2022

December 25, 1760 Jupiter Hammon became the first African-American published writer when a poem he wrote, “An Evening Thought,” appeared in print on this day. […]

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  • November 23, 2022

November 27, 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers hurler Don Newcombe becomes the first player to win baseball’s Cy Young Award, signifying him as the best pitcher in […]

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  • October 13, 2022

October 13, 1966 Legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays his first concert as the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell […]

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  • August 11, 2022

August 16, 1963 Television and advertising executive George Olden becomes the first Black person to design a U.S. postage stamp when he creates a stamp […]

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  • July 7, 2022

July 9, 1893 Chicago physician Daniel Hale Williams, the nation’s first Black cardiologist, performs the first successful open heart surgery at Provident Hospital, the nation’s […]

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  • June 30, 2022

July 1, 1991 Georgia-born attorney Clarence Thomas is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, the high court’s first black justice. Despite […]

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  • June 23, 2022

June 28, 1964 Malcolm X announces the establishment of the Organization of African Unity at a public meeting in New York’s Audubon Ballroom. The organization […]

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  • June 16, 2022

June 24, 1936 Bethune-Cookman College President Mary McLeod Bethune, the 15th child of former slaves, is named director of Negro Affairs for the National Youth […]

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  • May 26, 2022

May 29, 1973 Despite a sometime hostile and racially tinged campaign, former Los Angeles City Councilman Tom Bradley, the grandson of a former slave, defeats […]

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  • March 3, 2022

March 5, 1770 Massachusetts sailor Crispus Attucks is shot to death by British Redcoats, reportedly becoming the first patriot killed in the cause of U.S. […]

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