Black History & Birthday Facts 9/9
Otis Redding • 🎤 Soul singer & songwriter
J.R. Smith • 🏀 Former NBA player
Dray (Das EFX) • 🎤 Rapper, one-half of hip-hop duo Das EFX
Luther Simmons (The Main Ingredient) • 🎤 R&B/soul singer, member of The Main Ingredient
Yung Berg (Hitmaka) • 🎤 Rapper, songwriter & record producer
Dee Dee Sharp • 🎤 R&B/soul singer
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1957📚7 White racists used dynamite to destroy the new Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Nashville, TN, that had admitted 1 black student
1957🎾Althea Gibson becomes the 1st Black athelete to win a US Open championship
1962📚2 churches burned near Sasser, GA Black leaders asked the president to stop the "Nazi-like reign of terror in southwest Georgia" all because of attempting to vote
1967🎶Sam and Dave released "Soul Man."
1968📚Arthur Ashe becomes the 1st Black winner of the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands at Forest Hills Stadium, NY
1978🎶A Taste Of Honey's "Boogie Oogie Oogie" hits #1 for the first of 3 weeks
2000🎶M.O.P. released the single Ante Up (Robbin-Hoodz Theory)
All of your black history facts come from the book:
"The Uneraseable Black Book: We Can't Be Erased" By K.D. Garricks on Amazon
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