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  1. #BlackFacts Willie D. Burton becomes the first African American to win the Oscar for sound, for the movie Bird. bit.ly/INlhB2 12:31 AM Apr 11th via twitterfeed
  2. #BlackFacts President Johnson signed a bill. This bill also made it a crime to interfere with civil rights work... bit.ly/INljca 12:31 AM Apr 11th via twitterfeed
  3. #BlackFacts U.S. Congress pass Civil Rights Bill banning racial discrimination in sale or rental of approximatel... bit.ly/IdPwWo 9:29 PM Apr 9th via twitterfeed
  4. #BlackFacts Actress Jamsime Guy is born in Boston, Massachusettes. bit.ly/IErCOV 9:29 PM Apr 9th via twitterfeed
  5. #BlackFacts Arthur Ashe, first African American American Davis Cup team member, first African American to win th... bit.ly/IdPxJW 9:29 PM Apr 9th via twitterfeed
  6. #BlackFacts Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W. Nzima, Ghana. bit.ly/IdPwWj 9:29 PM Apr 9th via twitterfeed
  7. #BlackFacts Entertainer Josephine Baker dies. bit.ly/IxocO2 12:43 AM Apr 9th via twitterfeed
  8. #BlackFacts Martin Luther King Jr. buried after funeral services at Ebenezer Baptist Church and memorial service... bit.ly/Isbp2W 10:38 PM Apr 8th via twitterfeed
  9. #BlackFacts Marian Anderson performs for 65,000 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after she is refused admiss... bit.ly/IoKouf 10:38 PM Apr 8th via twitterfeed
  10. #BlackFacts Dr. Nathan Hare, ... bit.ly/Isbp2S 10:38 PM Apr 8th via twitterfeed
  11. #BlackFacts Paule Marshall, novelist, born bit.ly/IoKoub 10:38 PM Apr 8th via twitterfeed
  12. #BlackFacts On this date in 1999, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released "This Far By Faith: An Afr... bit.ly/IqCK1P 10:45 PM Apr 7th via twitterfeed
  13. #BlackFacts Percy Julian, developer of drugs to combat glaucoma and methods to mass produce cortisone and George... bit.ly/IqCIae 10:45 PM Apr 7th via twitterfeed
  14. #BlackFacts State troopers mobilized to stop disturbances in Wrightsville, Georgia. Racial incidents were also ... bit.ly/IqCJLv 10:45 PM Apr 7th via twitterfeed
  15. #BlackFacts Henry ("Hank") Aaron broke Babe Ruth's major league baseball record, by hitting his 715th home run ... bit.ly/IqCJLr 10:45 PM Apr 7th via twitterfeed
  16. #BlackFacts The Dunghutti Aboriginal people of NSW and other stakeholders negotiate the first successful claim u... bit.ly/IjJdM7 10:02 PM Apr 6th via twitterfeed
  17. #BlackFacts Anthony Drew(Tony) Dorset, 45, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, born Rochester, PA. April 7, 1954 bit.ly/I8gPjY 10:02 PM Apr 6th via twitterfeed
  18. #BlackFacts The first U.S. stamp ever to honor an African American is issued bearing the likeness of Booker T. W... bit.ly/I8gPjW 10:02 PM Apr 6th via twitterfeed
  19. #BlackFacts Frederick Dewayne Hubbard, trumpeter, born bit.ly/IjJgr8 10:02 PM Apr 6th via twitterfeed
  20. #BlackFacts Actor Billy Dee Williams, known in such works as "Mahogany" and two "Star Wars" sequels, was born in... bit.ly/HT6xpR 9:19 PM Apr 5th via twitterfeed
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