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Epic day...#culturechasing #MLK #Legacy #becauseofthemIcan (at National Civil Rights Museum)

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William Henry Hastie, Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American, lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and advocate for the civil rights of African Americans. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge,[2] and as a federal appellate judge. #becauseofthemican #truehero

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Robert Lee Elder (born July 14, 1934) is a retired American professional golfer. He is best remembered for becoming the first African-American to play in the Masters Tournament in 1975. Lee Elder, a member of the United Golfers Association (UGA), Professional Golfers Association (PGA), and the PGA Senior Tour, was the first African American to break the color barrier and play in the Masters Golf Tournament. Elder joined the all-black United Golfers Association (UGA) in 1959 and began the domination of the Association that would last for nearly eight years. He won four Negro National Open Championships and during one period in 1966 Elder won an astonishing 18 of the 22 tournaments he played in. This success enabled Elder to earn the required $6,500 he needed to enter the 1967 qualifying school for the PGA Tour. He qualified easily. In 1971 Elder became the first black golfer invited to play in the South African PGA Tournament. His participation in that event made this the first integrated sports event in South Africa since the establishment of the official Apartheid policy in 1948. Elder and other black golfers, however, continued to face racial challenges at home. Although the PGA Tour was officially open to African Americans, it was not friendly to them. Many tournaments would not allow black golfers into the clubhouse and instead required that they change and eat in the parking lot. #legendary #becauseofthemican #breakingbarriers

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Robert Lee Elder (born July 14, 1934) is a retired American professional golfer. He is best remembered for becoming the first African-American to play in the Masters Tournament in 1975. Lee Elder, a member of the United Golfers Association (UGA), Professional Golfers Association (PGA), and the PGA Senior Tour, was the first African American to break the color barrier and play in the Masters Golf Tournament. Elder joined the all-black United Golfers Association (UGA) in 1959 and began the domination of the Association that would last for nearly eight years. He won four Negro National Open Championships and during one period in 1966 Elder won an astonishing 18 of the 22 tournaments he played in. This success enabled Elder to earn the required $6,500 he needed to enter the 1967 qualifying school for the PGA Tour. He qualified easily. In 1971 Elder became the first black golfer invited to play in the South African PGA Tournament. His participation in that event made this the first integrated sports event in South Africa since the establishment of the official Apartheid policy in 1948. Elder and other black golfers, however, continued to face racial challenges at home. Although the PGA Tour was officially open to African Americans, it was not friendly to them. Many tournaments would not allow black golfers into the clubhouse and instead required that they change and eat in the parking lot. #legendary #becauseofthemican #breakingbarriers

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David "Davey" Lee Whitney (January 8, 1930 – May 10, 2015), also known as "The Wiz", was an American college basketball coach and the head basketball coach at Texas Southern University from 1964 to 1969 and Alcorn State University from 1969 to 1989 and 1996 to 2003. He amassed a total record of 566 wins and 356 losses in 33 years of coaching at these institutions. He attended Kentucky State University and graduated in 1952. At Kentucky State, Whitney lettered in basketball, baseball, football, and track.[2] After college, Whitney started out playing Negro American League baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs as shortstop and third baseman, from 1952 to 1954. Whitney began his coaching career in 1954 as varsity basketball head coach at Burt High School in Clarksville, Tennessee.[4][5] In ten seasons, Whitney led Burt to over 200 victories and the 1961 National Negro High School Basketball Championship.[5] He had his first collegiate job as head coach of Texas Southern University in 1964. He didn't fare well during his five years there. In 1969 he moved on to Alcorn A&M (now Alcorn State), which had the reputation as a football school in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Mainly recruiting local talent, Whitney was instrumental in making the Alcorn State men's basketball program a force in the SWAC during the 1970s and 1980s, with nine SWAC regular season titles.[6] He led the Braves to the final round of the 1974 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and the second round of the 1979 National Invitation Tournament, following an upset of Mississippi State in the first round. In 1980, Alcorn State became the first HBCU to win a game in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, after beating South Alabama in the first round.[7] During his time at Alcorn, Whitney earned the nickname "The Wiz".[8] By the end of his career at Alcorn, Whitney has set many records, and set himself to be the second winningest coach in HBCU college basketball behind the late Clarence 'Big House' Gaines, who coached at Winston-Salem State University. He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. #mentor #becauseofthemican

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Mildred earned her pilot’s license in 1941, becoming the first black woman in Alabama to do so. To this day, she is counted among the history-making Tuskegee Airmen. While Mildred was denied admission to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) because of her race, she was not deterred from flying. She taught and mentored African-American fighter pilots. Seventy years after she’d earned her license, Mildred was recognized as a member of the WASP and received a medal with the inscription: “The First Women in History to Fly America.” #tuskegeeairmen #deepsouth #becauseofthemican

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Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an African-American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[1] His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement to the long-haul transportation of perishable goods.[2] He cofounded Thermo King. #pioneer #achievement #becauseofthemican #coldfood

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The daughter of a former slave, Georgia Rooks Dwelle was born in 1884 in Albany, Georgia, grew up in Augusta, and attended Spelman College (then Spelman Seminary) in Atlanta. In 1900 she became the school’s first graduate to go on to medical school – Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. From there, she worked tirelessly, against all odds and faced with constant discrimination to create her own opportunities in building what became a remarkable career in medicine filled with pioneering firsts and a long record of service and care. In 1904, after earning her medical degree (with honors), Dwelle returned to her home state and received the highest score on the Georgia State Medical Board examination that year. She became one of only three African American women physicians in Georgia at that time, and practiced in Augusta for two years before moving to Atlanta in 1906. Upon her arrival in the Georgia capital, Dr. Dwelle, quite possibly the very first female African American physician in Atlanta, witnessed the dire poverty and terrible conditions in which many of the city’s poorest black residents lived and the lack of medical care they received. She was determined to set up a practice where conditions would be sanitary and proper services would be offered. #spelmancollege #hbcueducated #becauseofthemican #blackhistoryeveryday #georgiaproud