@prettyboyjv12@BBLiveUpdaters@DerrickL It was fun. I think I had some good points. Thanks for asking. Also shout out to the other two awesome women that run the account with me @nursecherylr516 and @maybee420 . My face wouldn’t be here if these two weren’t here too. 💙
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 28
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (July 1, 1877 – November 26, 1970)
“The armed forces established special units during World War II to accommodate minority groups. These segregated units of American Indians, African Americans, and Japanese Americans served(1)
“Inspector General and later as a special investigator with Judge William Hastie for the Secretary of War's Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies. His investigation of discrimination and racial disturbances brought to light the problems of a racially closed military.”(3)
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 27
Dorothy Butler Gilliam
“Dorothy Butler Gilliam was the first black female reporter at The Washington Post, as well as the first black woman to report for the newspaper. She started working at the Washington Post in 1961, and she worked there for over”(1
integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962, where protests took place after James Meredith was the first African American to enroll in the university. After retiring from The Washington Post in 2003, she served as a senior research scientist at”(3)
“the first African American in space as well as the second black person in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.”(3)
Source: https://t.co/cN610PF9H9
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 26
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
“Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first”(1)
African American to go to space. While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became”(2)