Thursday, February 18, 2010

Black History Month Facts




On this day February 18, in 1931 the great author&Pultizer Prize winner Toni Morrison was born in Ohio.
In 1867, an institution in Augusta, GA was founded, which was later named Morehouse College once it relocated to Atlanta. One of the great HBCUs for men.
In 1688, the first formal protest against slavery was organized by Quakers in Germantown, PA. The Germantown Protest denounced slavery and the slave trade.

(Source: www.blackfacts.com).
Educate yourself people!!

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