This is how Donald Trump treats Black women in Atlanta.

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Mihailo Tolotos died without ever setting eyes on a woman.

Born in 1856, Mihailo Tolotos faced a tragic start to his life when his mother passed away a mere four hours after his birth.

With no father or other family members coming forward, the young boy found himself abandoned…

Nashville was given the Nickname ‘Music City’ by England's Queen Victoria after receiving the Fisk
University Jubilee Singers in her court in 1873.

The group, made of mostly those formely enslaved, put Nashville on the musical map.

—Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866…

Did you know the author of 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Count of Monte Cristo' & 'The Iron Mask' was a black writer called Alexander Dumas.

Alexandre Dumas, prolific writer of the 19th century, enjoyed immense success for his numerous historical chronicles, such as ‘The Three…

Harriet Tubman's Last Portrait, 1911.

—Harriet Tubman (born Araminta 'Minty' Ross) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than 19 missions to rescue more than…

Alice Augusta Ball was a chemist who developed the first successful treatment for leprosy.

Her solution was the most effective treatment for more than a quarter-century.

She died young, at only 24, in 1916 but with a lasting legacy.

—Alice Augusta Ball, a pharmaceutical…

In 1862, Robert Smalls stole a Confederate Ship and sailed it to Freedom disguised as a captain, freeing his crew and their families.

He also educated himself, became a successful businessman, bought his ex-owners house, and served 5 years in Congress.

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Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe industry!

He invented an automatic lasting machine that mechanized the complex process of joining a shoe sole leading to mass production of shoes. It cut shoe prices dramatically, meaning more people could afford them.

Matzeliger was…

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be…

On this day in 1940, black Americans were allowed to enter all branches of the US Military Service, when President Franklin D Roosevelt signs Selective Service Act.

One of the most successful military regiments, The Harlem Hellfighters, in WWI was denied their going away parade…

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Willis Winn, who told photographer Russell Lee that he was 116 years old when the photograph was taken in 1939, is pictured holding a horn with which plantation owners called slaves to work. Winn said his master told him that his birthday was March 10, 1822

When interviewed by…

Selma Burke was a sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement, best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

She never received credit for her portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was later featured on the US dime.

—In 1943,…

Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND

The officers were acquitted by an all white jury

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Sergeant William Henry “Black Death” Johnson of the 369th Infantry Regiment (Harlem Hellfighters). In North France, Johnson, despite being stabbed, shot, & hit with grenade shrapnels, single-handedly fought off a German raiding party receiving 21 wounds in order to save fellow…

Scottsboro Boys were 9 black teenagers falsely accused in 1931 of raping 2 white women on a train and an all white jury found them guilty. They collectively served more than 100 years in prison.

The right of blacks to serve on juries was established by their case.

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On this day in 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school.

—On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church…

Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche and his children were the only black passengers on RMS Titanic.

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