Tuesday, February 21, 2012

On This Day In Black History


1804
Lemuel Haynes ~ (first Black minister to serve for a White congregation) becomes the first Black person to receivean honorary degree (an MA) from a White college (Middlebury College)

1965
Malcolm X ~ (activist and Black nationalist) assassinated

1961
Otis Boykin ~ (inventor) patents an improved electronic resistor
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