On this day in 1992, Carol Moseley Braun became the first Black Woman elected to the United States Senate. She represented the state of Illinois.
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John Baxter Taylor was born on this day in 1882 in Washington, DC. He was the first African American to win a medal at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London.
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On this day in 1896, J. H. Hunter, a Black inventor, received a patent for the portable weighing scale.
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Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr, a major civil rights leader, announces on this day in 1983 his decision to contest the 1984 democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States
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