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“And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on!!”

Let’s take another trek inside of African-American History, by seeing what’s happening, right now…….

Black History Scope:February 23rd:

1868-On this day Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, MA

1869-Louisiana governor signed public accommodations law.

1895-William H. Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia.

1915-Death of Robert Smalls (75), Reconstruction congressman, in Beaufort, SC

1925-Louis Stokes, former mayor of Detroit, MI, and member of the US House of Representatives, was born in Cleveland, OH. Stokes was the first African-American elected to the House from Ohio.

1929-Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1965, Howard signed a $70,000 contract with the NY Yankees and became the highest paid player in the history of baseball at the time.

1965-Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president, the highest elective office held by a Black woman in a major American city.

1979-Frank E. Peterson Jr. named the first Black general in the Marine Corps.

1995-Bass Singer Melvin Franklin (born David Melvin English) of The Temptations, died of complications following a brain seizure in Los Angeles, CA on this day. He was 53.

(Information courtesy of blackfacts.com)