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Celebrating Benjamin "Pap" Singleton known as the "Father of the Negro Exodus..."

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Celebrating inventor Michael C. Harvey [M.C. Harney] who patented an improvement to the wick-raiser that made lanterns burn brighter and longer...

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Celebrating Henrietta S. Bowers Duterte, the first female undertaker in the United States and staunch abolitionist who turned her funeral home into a stop on the Underground Railroad using coffins and funeral processions to help enslaved people escape...

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Celebrating Nathan Nearest Green the master distiller who taught Jack Daniels how to make bourbon and whiskey ...

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Celebrating Lena Lowe Jordan registered nurse and hospital administrator who began a training program for certification of Black women as practical nurses in 1940s Arkansas ...

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Celebrating Annie Turnbo Malone, businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist who mentored Madame C.J. Walker...

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Celebrating Junius G. Groves the potato king...

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Celebrating Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, The first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School, and the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society...

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Celebrating businessman O.W. Gurley, the founder of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma a.k.a Black Wall Street...

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Celebrating Marie C. Bolden winner of the first national spelling bee...

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Celebrating inventor Washington A. Martin who patented an improvement on the bolt lock paving the way for modern security....

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Celebrating Vivian Malone the first Black student to graduate from the University of Alabama...

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Celebrating Mary Ellen Pleasant abolitionist and successful entrepreneur...

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Celebrating enslaved engineer, Benjamin Bradley [Boardley], who developed and built the first steam engine large enough to power a warship and then sold the engine to buy his freedom....

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Celebrating Catherine Ferguson educator, philanthropist and founder of the first Sunday school in New York...

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Celebrating Sarah Bickford, the first woman in the United States to own a utility company...

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Celebrating Harold Amos the first Black microbiologist in the United States and the first Black department chair at Harvard Medical School...

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Celebrating North Carolina businessman Charles Clinton Spaulding (1874-1952)...

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Celebrating William Washington Browne founder of the first Black owned bank in the United States...

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Celebrating Faya Ora Rose Touré the first Black woman judge in Alabama...