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On this day in Black History: BLACK POWER FREEDOM FIGHTER STOKELY CARMICHAEL was born

Kwame Ture (/ˈkwɑːmeɪ ˈtʊəreɪ/; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a prominent organizer in the civil rights...

On this day in Black History: FIRST BLACK SOLO FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD LANDS

Jamaican born pilot Barrington Irving lands at the Opa-Locka Airport in Miami after 95 days of travel. Irving is the youngest person and first...

On this day in Black History: FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WALK IN SPACE BORN

Bernard Harris is a spaceflight pioneer. Harris was part of NASA's 13th astronaut class, which the agency selected in 1990. He became an astronaut in...

James Meredith

On June 25, 1933 Civil Rights leader, James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.   Meredith was the first African American student admitted to...

Mary McLeod Bethune

On June 24, 1936, Mary McLeod Bethune became Director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.  Bethune is best known for starting the...

Wilma Rudolph

On June 23, 1940,  Gold Medal champion Wilma Rudolph was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee.  Rudolph broke American female Olympic records by becoming the...

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