On this day in 1992, Carol Moseley Braun became the first Black Woman elected to the United States Senate. She represented the state of Illinois.
John Baxter Taylor was born on this day in 1882 in Washington, DC. He was the first African American to win a medal at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London.
On this day in 1896, J. H. Hunter, a Black inventor, received a patent for the portable weighing scale.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr, a major civil rights leader, announces on this day in 1983 his decision to contest the 1984 democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States
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