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Great People In Black History. The former Atlanta Mayor was the first African American United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Reginald F. Lewis was the first Black American to build a billion-dollar company. The United States Air Force first African American female general.
President Lyndon Johnson signing The Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964 as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. looks on. The Act made discrimination illegal on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, and sex in public accommodations, employment, and programs that are federally funded.
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Delivers The Keynote Address At The 1976 Democratic Convention [/caption]On July 12, 1976, Barbara Jordan became the first African American to deliver a Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention.
Frederick Douglas Home Dedicated. One of America's greatest orators Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) home became a national memorial on August 12, 1922. Frederick Douglass House, 1411 W Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC.
On September 22, 1950, Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche, a man who can be described as "A Peace Maker", received notice by cable that he was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1949. Dr. Bunche was born on August 7, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan.
One of the most important figures in the African Methodist Episcopal Church during the nineteenth century in America, Bishop Daniel A Payne was born a free man on February 24, 1811 in Charleston, South Carolina.
On October 18, 1775, Phillis Wheatley, the country's first African American poet to publish a book was freed from slavery. Wheatley was born in West Africa and sold as a slave at age seven to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts.
Frederick Douglass Escapes Slavery. One of America's greatest orators Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) escaped from slavery to freedom on September, 3 1838.
On November 6, 1901, two brothers (James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson) composed what has become one of the most respected, honored and revered songs of African American culture, "Lift Every Voice and Sing", generally referred to as the Black national anthem.
Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. transformed military history when he became the first African American General in the United States Army on October 25, 1940.