National Museum of African American Music NMAAM scheduled time open in Nashville, Tennessee Labor Day 2020.

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National Black Deaf Advocates is a non-profit advocacy organization.

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Irene Morgan 1917 – 2007. In 1944 arrested and convicted in Virginia for refusing to give up her seat in the “white section” of the bus. The case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court and the law ruled unconstitutional but was not enforced in Virginia.

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Lewis Hamilton, b. 1985, British in 2007 became the first and only black driver to race in Formula One.

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Haiti officially The Republic of Haiti, capital Port-au-Prince.

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Philibert Tsiranana 1959 – 1972 first President of Madagascar.

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Judge Teri Jackson 1957 first Black woman justice on California’s First District Court of Appeal, and San Francisco Superior Court.

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Felix Houphouët-Boigny 1952 – 1993 the first President of the Ivory Coast.

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Doris Miller, 1919 – 1943 first Black sailor to receive the Navy Cross for Bravery during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Gen. Charles Brown, b. 1962 first Black Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, 2020.

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