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As we celebrate Black History Month, here are some things you may not have known about Black History.
- Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin.
- Martin Luther King Jr. improvised the most iconic part of his “I Have a Dream Speech.”
- Inoculation was introduced to America by a slave.
- The earliest recorded protest against slavery was by the Quakers in 1688.
- Of the 12.5 million Africans shipped to the New World during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, fewer than 388,000 arrived in the United States.
- The diverse history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- One in four cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies.
- Esther Jones was the real Betty Boop!
- The first licensed African American Female pilot was named Bessie Coleman.
- Interracial marriage in the United Sates was banned in 1664 and not overturned until 1967.
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