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Carter G Woodson

On this day in 1926 Black History was founded by Carter G Woodson this month was created to celebrate achievements, births, important time lines, events, and to remember those we lost. Thank you Carter G Woodson







Leontyne Price
Soprano Leontyne Price, one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera, was born on this day in Laurel, Mississippi. She is considered as one of the finest opera singers of the 20th century.







Ronald H. Brown
Ronald H. Brown became the first African American to serve as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee on this day February 10, 1989.






Mary McLeod Bethune

Equal parts educator, politician, and social visionary, Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most prominent African American women of the first half of the twentieth century--and one of the most powerful. Known as the "First Lady of the Struggle," she devoted her career to improving the lives of African Americans through education and political and economic empowerment, first through the school she founded, Bethune-Cookman College, later as president of the National Council of Negro Women, and then as a top black administrator in the Roosevelt administration.




Asa Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Black labor union.