This Day In Black History

 

This Day in Black History: Feb. 9, 1906

Poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar dies in Dayton, Ohio. Also, Leroy “Satchel” Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame.

Taken from: https://www.bet.com/article/qfcy6e/this-day-in-black-history-feb-9-1906

This Day In Black History

 

This Day in Black History: Feb. 8, 1986

On Feb. 8, 1986, figure skater Debi Thomas became the first African-American to win the Women's Singles of the U.S. National Figure Skating Championship competition while studying as a pre-med student at Stanford University.

Taken from: https://www.bet.com/article/ybfhif/this-day-in-black-history-feb-8-1986

This Day in Black History

 

Feb. 7, 1926: Carter G. Woodson Launched Negro History Week

This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement,
because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
— Carter G. Woodson

Taken from: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/carter-woodson-black-history-month/

Happy Black History Month

 

A GREAT movie that tells the true story of black women excellence in the 1960s is Hidden Figures.  The women the movie follows were the human calculators of NASA double, triple checking numbers. What they did for this country is EXTRAORDINARY!!!! See the movie if you have not!

This Day in Black History

 

February 6, 1820

This Day in Black History: Feb. 6, 1820

On Feb. 6, 1820, 88 free Black men and women set sail for the British colony of Sierra Leone aboard a ship called the Mayflower of Liberia.

Taken from: https://www.bet.com/article/ad61pg/this-day-in-black-history-feb-6-1820

This Day In Black History

 

February 5,  1934

On this day in 1934, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron Jr., was born in Mobile, Alabama. “Hammerin’ Hank” broke Babe Ruth’s home run record when he knocked career home run 715 out the park. Though that record has since been broken, he still holds the records for most career runs batted in (RBI’s) with 2,297, most career total bases with 6,856, and most career extra base hits at 1,477.

Taken from: https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/this-day-in-history-black-history-month-edition-february-5th/