Category: Black History Month

February 19, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 19: Daniel Alexander Payne – 1st Black College President

February 18, 2017February 18, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 18: Sarah E. Goode – 1st Black woman to be granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

February 17, 2017February 17, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month, OhioMBE

Black History Month Feb. 17: Frederick Douglass Patterson – 1st Black Car Manufacturer

February 16, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 16: Maggie Lena Walker – First woman to be a bank president

February 15, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 15, – bell hooks, Black feminist scholar

February 14, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 14: Elijah McCoy, inventor

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month, OhioMBE

Black History Month – Feb 13: Henrietta Lacks, progenitor of the HeLa cell line

February 12, 2017February 11, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 12 – NAACP founded

February 10, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 10: Bessie Coleman – 1st Black woman to earn a pilot’s license

February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 By OhioMBE In Black History Month

Black History Month Feb. 9: Earl Lloyd – 1st Black NBA player