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Did you know? Black History Facts
Issue date: 2/5/09 Section: Features
Black History Month originated in 1926 by Carter Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week. The month of February was chosen in honor of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who were both born in that month.
Muhammad Ali (1942 - ) the self-proclaimed "greatest [boxer] of all time" was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923 - ), a physicist, mathematician and an engineer, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at age 19 from the University of Chicago in 1942.
Lewis Howard Latimer (1848 - 1928) drafted patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, while working at a patent law firm. He also patented an improved way to produce carbon filaments for light bulbs.
The banjo originated in Africa and up until the 1800s was considered an instrument only played by blacks.
Jesse Jackson (1941 - ) successfully negotiated the release of Lieutenant Robert O. Goodman, Jr., an African-American pilot who had been shot down over Syria and taken hostage in 1983.
Jack Johnson (1878 - 1946), the first African-American heavyweight champion, patented a wrench in 1922.
Lewis and Clark were accompanied by York, a black slave, when they made their 1804 expedition from Missouri to Oregon. York's presence aided in their interactions with the Native Americans they encountered.
Buffalo Soldiers, the name given to the all-black regiments of the U.S. Army started in 1866. More than 20 Buffalo Soldiers received the highest Medal of Honor for their service -- the highest number of any U.S. military unit. The oldest living Buffalo Soldier, Mark Matthews, died at the age of 111 in 2005.
"Strange Fruit," the song about black lynching in the South, made famous by blues singer Billie Holiday, was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx.
Mayme Clayton (1923 - 2006), a Los Angeles librarian and historian, amassed an extensive and valuable collection of Black Americana, including a signed copy of the first book published by an African-American, a collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley.
Muhammad Ali (1942 - ) the self-proclaimed "greatest [boxer] of all time" was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923 - ), a physicist, mathematician and an engineer, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at age 19 from the University of Chicago in 1942.
Lewis Howard Latimer (1848 - 1928) drafted patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, while working at a patent law firm. He also patented an improved way to produce carbon filaments for light bulbs.
The banjo originated in Africa and up until the 1800s was considered an instrument only played by blacks.
Jesse Jackson (1941 - ) successfully negotiated the release of Lieutenant Robert O. Goodman, Jr., an African-American pilot who had been shot down over Syria and taken hostage in 1983.
Jack Johnson (1878 - 1946), the first African-American heavyweight champion, patented a wrench in 1922.
Lewis and Clark were accompanied by York, a black slave, when they made their 1804 expedition from Missouri to Oregon. York's presence aided in their interactions with the Native Americans they encountered.
Buffalo Soldiers, the name given to the all-black regiments of the U.S. Army started in 1866. More than 20 Buffalo Soldiers received the highest Medal of Honor for their service -- the highest number of any U.S. military unit. The oldest living Buffalo Soldier, Mark Matthews, died at the age of 111 in 2005.
"Strange Fruit," the song about black lynching in the South, made famous by blues singer Billie Holiday, was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx.
Mayme Clayton (1923 - 2006), a Los Angeles librarian and historian, amassed an extensive and valuable collection of Black Americana, including a signed copy of the first book published by an African-American, a collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley.
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