Black History Facts & Birthdays 8/5

• Patrick Ewing

• •Jesse Williams

• •Anthony Edwards

• •Vanessa Simmons

• •Chip Fields  

• •Ja'Net Dubois

• •Dawn Richard

• •Lolo Jones

• •Funkmaster Flex

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• 1864📚President Andrew Johnson moved to reverse a 1865 policy of distributing abandoned land to freedmen

• 1953📚Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park housing projects in Chicago triggered a crazy riot which lasted more than 3 years & required assignment of more than a thousand police. Yes white people lived in the projects 1st

• 1975☆Stevie Wonder signs the largest contract for a single artist in history, 13 million over 7 years for 7 albums with Tamla/Motown

• 2023🪑The Montgomery Riverfront Brawl occurred when a group of white boaters attacked a Black co-captain Damien Pickett. The brawl took place on the same dock where enslaved Africans arrived by steamboat to be sold. One man used a white folding chair to help defend Damien & the white folding chair has become a symbol for memes across all of social media