Hidden African And African-American History You Must Know

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  Meet Bessie Coleman, The First African American Woman To Become An International Pilot In 1921
  Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to obtain an international pilot’s license in 1921. After studying French, she enrolled in the prestigious Ecole d’Aviation des Frères Caudron in Northern […]
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  Meet Charles Brooks, Inventor Of The Self-Propelled Street Sweeper & The Ticket Punch Design
  Charles Brooks, a resident of Newark, New Jersey, is credited with inventing the street sweeping trucks on March 17, 1896. He also designed and patented a chad collection system for […]
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  Meet The Black Patrolman Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life In 1958
  The time was around 2:00 on a Saturday in September of 1958. Al Howard, a police officer in Harlem, and Philip Romano, a new recruit, were sharing a patrol car. […]
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  Meet Robert F. Flemming Jr, The Black Inventor Of The Louder Guitar Called “Euphonica”
  Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 1839 – February 23, 1919) was an African-American inventor and Civil War Union sailor. He was the first member of the USS Housatonic’s crew to […]
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  How Formerly Enslaved Man Made A Fortune In The Coal Business By Beating The White Merchants – Robert Gordon
  He was a former slave turned coal magnate, churchman turned philanthropist, and wealthy Ohioan. In fact, at the time of his death, Robert Gordon was described as Ohio’s wealthiest Black […]
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  John Albert Burr: Black Inventor Who Designed And Patented The Improved Rotary Blade Lawnmower
  If you have a manual push mower today, it most likely incorporates design elements from black American inventor John Albert Burr’s patented rotary blade lawnmower from the nineteenth century. John […]
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  Meet Joseph Jackson; Black Man Who Invented The TV Remote, The Programmable VCR, DVR, and TIVO
  His device is widely used at home to improve the viewing experience of television, and while many people may not be familiar with Dr. Joseph N. Jackson, he is a […]
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  The Heroics Of Aunt Polly Jackson Who Fought Off White Enslavers And Protected Runaways In The Mid-1800s
  Slave rebellions and protests were not assisting enslaved Africans in America in gaining their freedom, so they devised more forceful methods of obtaining their freedom. It didn’t take long after […]
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  George Washington And How He Tried To Recapture Ona Judge, His Slave Who Got Away
  In 1796, Ona Judge, a 22-year-old slave woman, fled President George Washington’s household for a life of liberty in New Hampshire. George Washington inherited 10 slaves from his father’s estate […]
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  The American League Of Colored Laborers Was The First Black Labor Union, Founded In 1850
  The American League of Colored Laborers (ALCL) was the first black labor union in the United States. It was founded in 1850 in New York City as a collective for […]
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  The First Black-Owned Insurance Company: The African Insurance Company, Founded In 1810
  The African Insurance Company was founded in 1810, with headquarters at 159 Lombard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the country’s first African American-owned insurance company. Joseph Randolph was the […]
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  Meet Anthony Johnson, The First Black Landowner In America In 1651
  The first significant black landowner in the English colonies was Anthony Johnson. Johnson landed on board the a ship named ‘James’ in Virginia in 1621. Early records refer to Johnson as […]
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  The Dangerous Trip By Frederick Douglass To The White House In 1863 That Changed U.S. History
  Frederick Douglass, a well-known abolitionist, and preacher known for his command of language and prose, remains a towering figure in the annals of history for his long-standing fight against the […]
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  Meet Physicist, Arthur B.C. Walker Jr. Who Co-Invented First X-Ray Telescopes To Take Images Of The Sun’s Corona
  Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker II, also known as Art Walker to close friends, was born on August 24, 1936, in Cleveland, the only child of Cuthbert and Hilda Walker. Walker […]
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  Meet Dr. Patricia Bath, Who Invented The Laserphaco Probe Used In The Treatment Of Cataracts
  Patricia Bath was the first African American woman to complete an ophthalmology residency and the first African American female doctor to be granted a medical patent. In 1986, she developed […]
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  How Bobby Grier Sr. Destroyed Racial Barriers To Be First Black To Play In Sugar Bowl 66 Years Ago
  Jim Crow laws in the South barred Blacks from participating in overall integration activities, including college athletics, at the time Robert “Bobby” Grier Sr. made history in the Sugar Bowl. […]
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  Meet The Man Behind The Historic Green Book That Guided Black Travelers Through A Segregated U.S
  Sundown towns existed across the United States in the years following Jim Crow. They were all-white communities or counties that purposefully excluded Black people and other minorities through discriminatory legislation, […]
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  A Black Woman Expresses Her Annoyance Seeing White Women On Cornrows – Does Anyone Own The Cornrow?
  There is no denying the fact that Cornrows hold great cultural and symbolic value to Black people worldwide, especially in the United States, where it has become a supreme culture. […]
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  Revisiting The 1860 Crittenden Compromise That Proposed To Make Slavery Permanent In The United States
  After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, 11 southern states seceded from the Union. During his campaign, he stated that he would not abolish slavery where it already existed, […]
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  How Police Shot & Killed Black Students With Battle Tank And Guns, For Protesting Inequality In Southern University, Louisiana, In 1972
  Southern University, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is the country’s biggest historically Black college. Over 10,000 Black students attended the university in 1970. Despite the fact that the school president […]
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  Never Forget That Black Babies Were Used as Alligator Bait During Slavery In The United States
  Alligator bait, also called gator bait, was the evil practice of using infant African children as bait to lure alligators. This practice was popular in Louisiana and Florida, and other […]
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  Meet Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, Who Fought Slavery In U.S. & Became 1st Black Person To Hold Public Office In 19th-Century British Columbia, Canada
  The first Black settlers arrived in British Columbia in April 1858, 24 years after the Abolition of Slavery Act, according to history; however, Black Canadian history dates back to the […]
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  Remembering The Chilling Murder Of Bill Cosby’s Only Son, Ennis, By Mikhail In 1997
  Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby’s only son, was killed on Interstate 405 in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, California, twenty-five years ago. Interstate 405 is believed to be one of […]
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  The Sad End Of Butterfly Mcqueen, The ‘Gone With The Wind’ Star Who Couldn’t Attend Film’s Premiere For Being Black
  Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen had planned to become a nurse, but a teacher encouraged her to try dancing instead, which she finally accomplished. McQueen was born on January 8, 1911, in […]
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  The Story Of Robert ‘Free Bob’ Vernon, Former Slave Who Founded Vernon Town In Louisiana
  In the town of Amite, Louisiana, a family-owned funeral parlor has serviced the Black community for generations, preserving decades of information in funeral program records. “One day I got down […]
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  A Detailed List And History Of Lynching Of Black People In America
  It’s been widely accepted that lynching was a systematic method of social and racial weapon intended to instil terror and fear into the psyche of the average black American, forcing […]
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  The Powerful Frederick Douglass Speech – What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?
  Due to its importance in portraying the plight of African Americans during the American slavery era, Frederick Douglas’ 1852 speech with the title “What to the Slave Is the Fourth […]
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  The Mysterious Unsolved Murder Of Clifton Walker, Black Father Of 5, On His Way Home From Work
  On February 28, 1964, 37-year-old Clifton Walker worked a late shift at International Paper in Natchez and was on his way home to his wife and five kids in southwest […]
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  James Somerset, The Fugitive Slave From Virginia Who Ended Slavery In England
  James Somerset (or Sommersett), a Boston slave transported to England in 1771, was apprehended after attempting to flee from his master. He was loaded onto a ship and sent to […]
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  How Argentina Forgot Its Black Hero Antonio Ruiz Who Laid Down His Life For The Country
  He is regarded as one of the Black heroes of colonial Latin America who wanted independence and reform despite the hardship of being Black in a place where there were […]