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Say family, are you ready for another trek in African-American History?
Let’s take a look and see what happened on this date starting, right now,
Black History scope: February 13th:
1635-America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston, MA on this day. Black students were excluded from attending.
1818-Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the United States, dies.
1882-Death of Henry Highland Garnet (66), diplomat and protest leader, in Monrovia, Liberia.
1892-The first African-American performers, the World’s Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall.
1907-Wendell P. Dabney establishes The Union. The Cincinnati, OH paper’s motto is “For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength.”
1923-The first Black professional basketball team the New York Renaissance also known as “The Renaissance” was organized.
1957-Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized at New Orleans meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. as president.
1970-The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) admits its first Black member, Joseph Searles.
1973-Gertrude E. Downing and William Desjardin Corner Cleaner Attachment, Patent No. 3,715,772 on February 13, 1973
(Information courtesy of blackfacts.com)
