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Celebrating inventor Nathaniel Alexander who patented the design for the folding chair...

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Celebrating Dr. William Hooper Councill, former slave and founder of the Huntsville Normal School in Alabama that became Alabama A&M University....

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Celebrating Rev. William Reuben Pettiford who co-founded the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, the first Black owned and operated bank in Alabama...

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Celebrating author, orator, politician and community organizer Tunis Campbell...

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Celebrating Osbourn Dorsey inventor of the modern doorknob and doorstop....

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Celebrating 21-year-old Texas Tech pitcher, NiJaree Canady, the first college softball player to sign a $1 million NIL [name, image and likeness] deal...

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Celebrating staunch abolitionist and shipping magnate, Paul Cuffee, one of the first Black millionaires in the United States who led the first Back to Africa movement...

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Celebrating Ida Gray Nelson Rollins the first Black woman in the United States to earn a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and practice dentistry...

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Celebrating engineer Raye Montague the first person to draft a naval ship design using a computer...

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Celebrating Aunt Polly Jackson, who escaped slavery and then risked her life helping others escape on the underground railroad...

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Celebrating real estate developer Velma Grant who bought 50 acres of land in Los Angeles in 1946, hired Black architect, Paul Williams, and built 640 homes that were only sold to Black people...

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Celebrating stanch abolitionist, Stephen Smith, who bought his freedom at age 21, became one of the wealthiest men in the United States in the 1800s, and used his position to help others escape slavery...

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Celebrating Juanita Coleman who founded a hospital for Black patients and to train Black nurses in Alabama during Jim Crow...

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Celebrating Anna Maria Weems who disguised herself as a male carriage driver named Joe Wright to make a daring escape from slavery...

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Celebrating Gloria Bradford the first Black person to graduate from University of Texas School of Law...

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Celebrating Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. who made history in 1995 as the first Black astronaut to perform a space walk...

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Celebrating oil tycoon, Joseph Jacob Simmons Jr., the first Black person appointed to the National Petroleum Council...

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Celebrating inventor Powell Johnson who received a patent for an 'eye-protector' in 1880, the first pair of safety glasses...

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Celebrating Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston, a leading researcher on Sickle Cell disease and the first Black woman to be appointed director of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care...

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Celebrating Benjamin "Pap" Singleton known as the "Father of the Negro Exodus..."