Black History Month – February 24, 2017

Black History Month – February 24, 2017

Andrew H. Walker

 

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We salutes African Americans who've made & continue to make American history. To the artists, entrepreneur, business moguls, doctors and educators from the canvas to the stage.  To the poets, the authors, the inventors, innovators and trailblazers, we honor and remember them all, this and every Black History Month.

Happy Black History Month! According to Blackfacts.com it was on this day in black history.....

1999 - Lauryn Hill wins five Grammy's

Singer, songwriter, rapper, producer and actress won five Grammy's on this day in 1999 for her one and only solo studio album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.  In addition Hill won including Album of the Year and Best New Artist for the critically acclaimed album. The Fugees singer became the first woman to win that many Grammy's in one night.  

1940 - Heavy weight boxing great Jimmy Ellis is born

James Albert Ellis, better known as Jimmy Ellis, was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Ellis won the WBA World Championship after beating Jerry Quarry in April 1968. He fought all the greats like Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Earnie Shavers and more, before retiring at the age of 35 in 1975. Ellis died do to dementia complications at the age of 74 in 2014.

1864 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler receives her M.D.

Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She was also the first African American to publish a book about medicine, A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883.  Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College and then began her work as a nurse in Massachusetts from 1852-1860.

1811 - Bishop Daniel A. Payne is born

Reformer and educator, Bishop Daniel A. Payne, was born on this day in history.  Payne is most known for bringing more order to the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME.)  He was the sixth bishop of the church and served as such for more than four decades from, 1852 to 1893.  Bishop Payne was one of the founders of Wilberforce University, which opened in Ohio in 1856.  Years later in 1863 the AME Church bought the college and elected Payne to lead it, doing so the Bishop became the first African-American college president in the United States.  He would hold that position until 1877.

For even more Black facts, click here.  Other sources on information found at Blackinventor.com, Wikipedia.com, and Biography.com

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