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15
Apr
PAST EVENTS THAT ARE TODAY’S HISTORY
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13
Apr
PAST EVENTS THAT MADE TODAY’S HISTORY
SANDY KOZEL
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07
Apr
FIRST BLACK TO BE HONORED ON STAMP
Booker T. Washington was the first Black American to be
honored on a U.S. postage stamp, released on April 7,
1940. As part of the 1940 "Famous Americans Series"
(educators group), this 10-cent stamp recognized his
role as a leading educator and founder of the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute.
It will take nearly four decades for a Black woman to
receive a similar honor: Harriet Tubman in 1978.
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)
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24
Mar
FIRST BLACK FEMALE WINNER ON THIS DAY
On March 24, 2002, Halle Berry became the first African American
woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal in Monster’s
Ball.
As an emotional Berry clutched her Oscar, she tearfully called the moment “so much bigger than me” and declared that “the door
had been opened” for actresses of color.
Halle Maria Berry will turn 60 on August 14th.
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20
Mar
ANTI-SLAVERY NOVEL PUBLISHED IN 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
was published on this day in 1852.
The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so
widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in
1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this
big war.”
The story follows the brutalized lives of enslaved people—
centered on the long-suffering Uncle Tom—exposing the
cruelties of the system.
It was the 19th century’s best-selling novel behind the Bible,
accelerating abolitionist fervor.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
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