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Mum Bett was the first black woman in Massachusetts to sue for freedom and win. In 1781, she visited a lawyer and said, ‘I heard that paper read yesterday that says all men are created equal and that every man has a right to freedom. I’m not a dumb... Fandom, Humour, People, Black History Facts, Weird Facts, Did You Know, Wtf Fun Facts, Black History Month, Fun Facts
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Mum Bett was the first black woman in Massachusetts to sue for freedom and win. In 1781, she visited a lawyer and said, ‘I heard that paper read yesterday that says all men are created equal and that every man has a right to freedom. I’m not a dumb...
Madison Washington was an American cook who started a slave revolt in 1841 on�… History Books, Youtube, History, Us History, United States History, American, Madison, Black History, Man
Madison Washington: Instigated Most Successful Slave Revolt in U.S. History
Madison Washington was an American cook who started a slave revolt in 1841 on…
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Mother, Ida - mother to the first African American president Maya, Presidents, Genealogy, Dwight Eisenhower, Ancestry, Barack Obama
Black History Feature of the Day: Did You Know That Dwight Eisenhower and Some Other Famous People Were Black?
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Mother, Ida - mother to the first African American president
Talk about a QUEEN who knew she was one and DARED THEM to relate to her any differently #MadRespect African Americans, Jazz, Activists, Faith In Humanity
Talk about a QUEEN who knew she was one and DARED THEM to relate to her any differently #MadRespect
Caroline Still Wiley Anderson, Philadelphia's first Black doctor Quotes, Truth, Black Knowledge, Howard University
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Caroline Still Wiley Anderson, Philadelphia's first Black doctor
The first whooping cough vaccine        Google+ Albert Einstein, Reflexology, Strong Women, The More You Know, Great Women, Patriarchy
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Dr. Shirley Jackson-inventor of the touch-tone telephone, caller ID and the fiber optic cable.... Wisdom, Shirley Jackson, Brethren, Excellence
Dr. Shirley Jackson-inventor of the touch-tone telephone, caller ID and the fiber optic cable....
"Mae Jemison Became 1st Black Woman To Fly In To Space in 1992.  Jemison fulfilled a lifelong dream she held ever since she was a small girl in Chicago by becoming the first African-American woman to fly into space.  She graduated in 1977 with a dual degree in chemical engineering and African-American Studies,   Jemison later obtained a Doctor of Medicine in 1981 from Cornell University and travelled to developing countries to provide primary care." Amazing Women, Women, Afro, African American Women, Harriet Tubman, American Women, African American Studies
Mae Jemison Became 1st Black Woman To Fly In To Space On This week In 1992
"Mae Jemison Became 1st Black Woman To Fly In To Space in 1992. Jemison fulfilled a lifelong dream she held ever since she was a small girl in Chicago by becoming the first African-American woman to fly into space. She graduated in 1977 with a dual degree in chemical engineering and African-American Studies, Jemison later obtained a Doctor of Medicine in 1981 from Cornell University and travelled to developing countries to provide primary care."
You won't hear of this brother not even in your university.. or perhaps, maybe... our people are not known, because the truth hurts that it was us who built the modern world.. gave the world languages, sciences, medicine, astronomy..  AIN'T NO GREEK FAN B African Diaspora
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You won't hear of this brother not even in your university.. or perhaps, maybe... our people are not known, because the truth hurts that it was us who built the modern world.. gave the world languages, sciences, medicine, astronomy.. AIN'T NO GREEK FAN B
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, born in Wilmington, Delaware, the eldest of 13 children of free Negro (as African Americans were known then) parents became a role model for women in education and law. After receiving an education from Pennsylvania Quakers, Cary devoted the first part of her life to abolition, working with fugitive slaves, and becoming the first African American woman in North America to edit a weekly newspaper Vintage, Mary Ann
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary, born in Wilmington, Delaware, the eldest of 13 children of free Negro (as African Americans were known then) parents became a role model for women in education and law. After receiving an education from Pennsylvania Quakers, Cary devoted the first part of her life to abolition, working with fugitive slaves, and becoming the first African American woman in North America to edit a weekly newspaper