Black History Everyday

Dr. Joycelyn Elders was the 1st black appointed surgeon general of the United States, 1993.  

Asa Philip Randolph aka A. Philip Randolph, organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the 1st predominantly black labor union, 1925.

Rashida Muhammed was a black community activist in Oakland, CA, better known as Dessie X.Woods. She died of lung cancer in 2006, had…

Maggie Lena Walker, a black woman, was the 1st female bank president of any race to charter a bank in the United States,…

Crispus Attucks, a black man, was the 1st person killed in the Boston massacre and the 1st American killed in the American Revolutionary War, 1723.