Today In Black History
Facts You Should Know!
Issue #417 Black History November 15, 2023
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Today’s Black WOW: Just before the 2022 Senate Election in Georgia, Donald Trump demanded that his hand-picked candidate, documented purveyor of domestic violence Hershel Walker falsely claim that his competitor, Senator Raphael Warnock was a child molester. Walker refused to do so before the election, but when the race went to a December runoff, Walker falsely accused Warnock of participating in child abuse at a camp run by Warnock’s church. Of course, Senator Warnock won the election for a full term as Senator, and Walker faded into obscurity.
Today’s Black History:
In 1887, Black inventor Granville T. Woods received a patent for the Synchronous Multiplier Railway Telegraph.
In 1894, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded Freedmen’s Hospital School of Nursing.
In 1898, Black inventor L.D. Newman received a patent for the Synthetic Brush with synthetic bristles.
In 1950, Arthur Dorrington became the 1st Black man to sign with an organized hockey team, the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.
In 1969, the Amistad Research Center, a manuscripts library for the study of ethnic history, culture, and race relations in the United States was incorporated at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 2016, American singer-songwriter and native of Detroit Smokey Robinson received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.
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