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This Day in Black History: February 13

Some quick facts for your Black History fix!

Zuri Anderson

Feb 13, 2017

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Want to know some extra facts from Black History? Check out the six below!

(1892) The World's Fair Colored Opera Company performs at Carnegie Hall, the first African American performers to do so.

(1920) Andrew "Rube" Foster, the “Father of Black Baseball”, organizes the Negro National League at a YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. It is the first baseball league for African Americans and operated successfully until 1931.

(1923) The first professional African-American basketball team is formed in Harlem, New York -- the New York Renaissance.

(1957) Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized at a meeting in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as president.

(1970) Joseph Searles is the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange (pictured above and in cover photo).

(1973) Gertrude E. Downing and William Desjardin patented the corner cleaner attachment.

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