February is known widely as Black History Month, but we decided that we will create a year long event. This year in 2012 we will bring you Black History Facts once a week and everyday for the month of February. We will give facts from entertainment to business.
FEBRUARY 13TH IN HISTORY
SPORTS: 1923 - 1st Black Pro basketball team -- "The Renaissance"
The first Black professional basketball team "The Renaissance" organized.
BUSINESS: 1970 - The New York Stock Exchange admits its first black member, Joseph Searles.
1907 - Wendell P. Dabney establishes The Union.Wendell P. Dabney establishes The Union. The Cincinnati, Ohio paper's motto is "For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength."
ENTERTAINMENT :
1892 - The first African American performers
ENTERTAINMENT :
The first African American performers, the World's Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall.
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