On This Day In Black History: February 23
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Melanie Pratt
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February 23, 2017
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Frank E. Petersen, Jr ~ becomes the U.S. Marine Corps’s first Black Brigadier General
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1965Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president, the highest elective office held by a Black woman in a major American city.
1942
Haki Madhubuti ~ is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is an author, activist, and the founder of the Third World Press
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1868
Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, Mass.
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