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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." -Pearl Bailey
After a long career as an actress and singer, Pearl Bailey earned a bachelor's degree in theology from Georgetown University in 1985.
Lucien Alexis a student at Harvard University, Despite facing obstacles, he managed not only to graduate but became a famed educator himself
MLK = Martin Luther King
MLK Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou's birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward.
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1930s, painter Charles Alston founded the 306 group, which provided support and apprenticeship for African American artists.
Smalls successfully navigated the ship through five checkpoints, offering the correct signal to pass each, and then headed out to open waters and...
Robert Smalls made history by escaping slavery by pretending to be a white ship’s captain, and sailing to freedom during the Civil War.
Thomas Wiggins was a blind piano prodigy so popular that it has been alleged that he was the highest-paid pianist of the 19th Century.
Allensworth is the only California community to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Created by Allen Allensworth in 1908
Quincy Jones is the most Grammy-nominated artist in the history of the awards show with 79 nominations and 27 wins.
In 1921, an entire city in Oklahoma was burned to the ground due to a racial disturbance and retaliation. This was the Tulsa Race Riot.
Nat Cole was the first African American to reach #1 on the Billboard charts and the first African American to host his own television show.
Aretha Franklin was not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period.
2018, Kobe Bryant became the first athlete and the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film, Dear Basketball.
One of the most famous of his patents was for dry-scouring, which was the forerunner of today's modern dry-cleaning.
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859) was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S.
...for getting their graduates into medical school.
Xavier University, a historically black college in Louisiana, has one of the highest success rates in the country...
