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Today in Black History for March 8th Selected Black Facts for March 8 1. 1993 - Billy Eckstine dies Singer Billy Eckstine died in Pittsburgh at age 78 2. 1977 - Henry L. Marsh lll Henry L. Marsh III elected 1st Black mayor of Richmond. 3. 1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American Phyllis Mae Daley, first of four African American Navy nurses to serve active duty in WW II receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps. 4. 1876 - U.S. Refuses to Seat P.B.S. Pinchback U.S. Senate refuses to seat P.B.S. Pinchback, elected Senator from Louisiana in 1873, after three years of controversy. 5. 1825 - Alexander Thomas Augusta Alexander Thomas Augusta, first African American faculty member of an American medical school, Howard University, is born free Continue To Celebrate Black History….
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:15:16 +0000

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