Bob Ryland
Robert Henry Ryland Jr. 1920-2020. First Black tennis player to turn pro in 1958.
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Gloria DeNard 1927 – 2020. Founded “Manna House Workshops” in 1967.
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Carmen Best born 1965 Seattle’s first Black Police Chief resigned to reduce the police force and reform policing.
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Viola Davis born 8/11/1965 in St.Matthews, South Carolina. First Black actress to win an Emmy, Tony, and an Oscar, the so-called Triple Crown of Acting.
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Michael Derrick Tubbs born 1990. Youngest and first Black mayor of Stockton, California in 2017.
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Blesbian is a “Black lesbian” coined by Kiki in 2016 with nods to Tiger Woods for caublanasisan and Bill Bellamy for “booty call”.
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Golden Thirteen first Black commissioned and warrant officers in the United States Navy in 1944. John Walter Reagan, Jesse Walter Arbor, Dalton Louis Baugh, Frank Ellis Sublett. Middle row: Graham Edward Martin, Charles Byrd Lear, Phillip George Barnes, Reginald E. Goodwin. Bottom row: James Edward Hair, Samuel Edward Barnes, George Clinton Cooper, William Sylvester White, […]
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Duke Alessandro de’ Medici governed Florence and its territories from 1510 to 1537. His nickname was Moor.
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Lucile Harris Bluford 1911-2003, Kansas City journalist.
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Abebe Bikila Demissie, born in Ethiopia, 1932 – 1973 was Africa’s first black gold medalist, in marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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