black history
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First African to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
Gordon Parks was a self-taught photographer, writer, composer and filmmaker known for Shaft and The Learning Tree.
(DAIQUON) Bill Russell was born on February 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana.
There was a time when Rochester, N.Y. had it’s own “Black Wall Street” but it was known as the “Negro Business” or “Negro Business League” dating back to the 1920’s.
Today we celebrate, opera singer, Leontyne Price.
Regarded as the first major African – American feature filmmaker.
In 1899, brothers George & Willie Muse kidnapped as children and sold to the circus as a sideshow.
The first African-American fashion designer to gain national recognition. She was most famous for designing Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress in 1953.
An entire village in the middle of New York City , owned by Black people, was destroyed to build Central Park.