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Celebrating architect Norma Merrick Sklarek the first Black woman to be a licensed architect in both New York and California and the first Black woman to co-own an architecture firm...

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Remembering the 33 Black girls who were jailed for 45 days in the Leesburg stockade in Americas, GA for trying to buy movie tickets at a segregated movie theater...

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Celebrating aviator, civil rights activist, engineer, and writer William J. Powell...

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Remembering  Colored School No. 4 in Chelsea, the last surviving building from New York City's racial segregation-era public school system...

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Celebrating mathematician and educator, Gloria Ford Gilmer, the first Black woman in the United States to publish a non-Ph.D.-thesis mathematics research paper and the first Black woman mathematician to have her research papers in the Library of Congress....

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Remembering Clyde Kennard who applied for admission to the all-white Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi, and after the school could not find a reason to deny his admission was accused of conspiring to steal $25 worth of chicken feed and sentenced to seven years in prison on felony charges...

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Celebrating Benjamin O. Davis Jr. the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force, who commanded the Tuskegee Airmen....

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Celebrating legendary cowboy Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick...

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Remembering Noyes Academy located in Canaan, New Hampshire, the second racially integrated school in the United States, that was later destroyed by white residents...

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Celebrating Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first Black woman to win a national championship in any sport, the first Black woman to be appointed dean at an American university and one of the co-founders of the first Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha...

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Remembering the enslaved Americans who escaped on the Underground Railroad route to Mexico, who refused to sign a treaty with the U.S. to return formerly enslaved fugitives...

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Celebrating Harlem child star, Esther 'Baby Esther' Jones, the inspiration for the iconic cartoon character Betty Boop...

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Celebrating self made multi-millionaire A.G. Gaston who used his vast wealth to fund the civil rights movement...

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Celebrating civil rights leader Ella Baker, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with Dr. Martin Luther King and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)...

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Celebrating Alfred L. Cralle, inventor of the ice cream scoop...

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Celebrating abolitionist and documentarian, William Still, who worked closely with Harriet Tubman and other conductors on the Underground Railroad helping over 800 Black Americans escape slavery, while keeping meticulous records for each person that he later compiled for his book, 'The Underground Railroad Records...'

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Celebrating journalist and political activist, Charlotta Spears Bass, the first Black woman in the United States to own a newspaper and the first Black woman to be nominated for Vice President...

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Celebrating the Detroit rock band, 'Death' pioneers of punk rock...

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Celebrating businessman and inventor, Samuel Raymond Scottron, holder of six patents and inventor of the modern curtain rod and the Scottron adjustable mirror...

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Celebrating businesswoman, chef, educator, and innovator, Lucille Elizabeth Bishop Smith, who created the first hot biscuit mix ...