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📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — July 3: On this day in 2010, Serena Williams won her fourth Wimbledon title with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Russian, Vera Zvonareva to secure grand-slam title No. 13. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — July 2: On this day in 1908, Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and civil rights activist, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s first African American justice, was born in Baltimore, MD. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — July 1: As of this day in 1932, with the help of the Rosenwald Fund, a total of 5,357 Rosenwald schoolhouses, shops, and teacherages stood in 883 counties of fifteen states. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 30: On this day in 1917, Lena Horne, American dancer, actress, singer, and civil rights activist— whose career spanned over seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre, was born. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 29: On this day in 1926, Carter Woodson, American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, won the Springarn Medal for his research of Black history. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 28: On this day in 1969, Marsha P. Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and a prominent gay liberation activist, became one of the most well-known participants in the Stonewall uprising—six days of riots between patrons and police after they stormed the Stonewall Inn. 🖤🤍What happens when you blink? —who are these little men and where did my baby boys go?!?! 😩😍 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 27: On this day in 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar—American poet, novelist, and short story writer We may be running on E— but we finally made it! 💕🏖☀️ #girlstrip #hotgirlsummer #besties #reunited #dirty30s #birthdayvacay #daytonabeach It really is that simple— and isn’t this the same “all lives” crew? 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 26: On this day in 2014, Lil Hardin Armstrong, jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 25: On this day in 1938, “A Tisket a Tasket” by jazz artist Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, hit #1 on the charts. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 24: On this day in 1884, John Roy Lynch, American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician, was elected as the first Black chairman of the Republican Convention. People’s history teaches us that the government has only ever sided with justice when forced to by everyday people organizing for their lives. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 23: On this day in 1940, Wilma Rudolph, former polio victim, who became a world famous track star for winning three gold medals in the Rome Olympic Games, was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 22: On this day in 1938, Joe Louis successfully defended his championship for the fourth time by scoring a crushing first-round knockout over former titleholder Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium in New York. With World War II brewing, “The Brown Bomber” 8 years 🤍 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 21: On this day in 1970, In the FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Brazil and @pele became the first team and player to win the World Cup 3 times, beating Italy, 4-1 in front of a crowd of 107,412. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 20: On this day in 1960, 🏆📺🎞Harry Belafonte became the first African American to win an Emmy award for his TV special 'Tonight With Belafonte'. A little bit of what we’ve been reading to celebrate #juneteenth in the Griffin house! 🖤📓♥️📕💚📗 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 19: On this day, Juneteenth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. Happy Father’s Day! ♥️ 🖤❤️💚—To do list ✅ Happy #Juneteenth!!! Tonight’s bedtime story about Juneteenth prompted lots of questions and great discussion with my two little ones (5 & 6 yo)! 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 18: On this day in 2004: Larry Doby, American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major Leagues, who was the second black player to break baseball’s color barrier —and the first black player in the American League for the Cleveland Indians baseball team, died. ⭐️💜JUNETEENTH #literallycultured BOOK REC!💜⭐️ This story by @alicefayewrites is one of our new family favorites for celebrating Juneteenth! Take some time to learn today. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 17: On this day in 1871, James Weldon Johnson, a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, lawyer and diplomat who served as executive secretary at NAACP for a decade, as well was also the composer who wrote the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black national anthem, was born. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 16: On this day, “Youth Day” commemorates the Soweto youth uprising of June 16, 1976 that was a result of protests from Black South African students against a new law requiring that Afrikaans (the language of the White government) be used on an equal basis with English as a language of instruction in secondary schools. 📚🖤365 DAYS OF BLACK HISTORY & BOOKS — June 15: On this day in 1921 , Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman and first Native American to earn an aviation pilot’s license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

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