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Friday, February 25, 2022
Hiram Revels Was the Black Man in Jefferson Davis’s Chair
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Hiram Revels is sworn in as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi. On February 25, 1870 Hiram Revels was seated as a United States Senator fr...
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Way Before Black Lives Matter New York’s Black Silent Parade Stood up to Racist Killings
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Behind drummers the NAACP's James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B, Du Bois, center, lead the Silent Parade in New York City in 1917. On July...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
How Buffalo Soldiers Did Teddy Roosevelt’s Heavy Lifting at San Juan Hill
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This Landmark book for young adults and a Classic Comic Book both fired my boyhood hero worship of Theodore Roosevelt. The cover illustrati...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Lewis Latimer—Like the Light of the Sun
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Lewis Latimer, light bulb pioneer in 1882. Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Boston on December...
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