Encouragement For The Day

March 15, 1947
John Lee, first African American Navy officer.

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Robin

In 1991, the Black Enterainment Network (BET), founded by Robert Johnson in 1979 had 29 million subscribers and became the first entertainment company founded by an African American to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Robin

In 1968 Diahann Carroll became the first African American woman to have her own television series.

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In 1966 Bill Cosby became the first African American actor to win an Emmy for best actor in a running series.

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Elizabeth Duncan Koontz was an educational leader who devoted her life’s work to building a better quality of life for children through schooling and the support of women, their primary caregiveers. Knootz gained firsthand experience teaching in the classrooms of North Carolina for a number of years before becoming the first black president of the National Education Association in 1965. In later years, she served the U.S. Department of Labor in the Woman’s Bureau. Her advocacy established a role model that endures today, as new generations continue to work for the betterment of society through a focus on early education.

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January 25, 1966
Constance B. Motley becomes first female federal judge.

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January 20, 1788
Andrew Bryan, first African American pastor, ordained.

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January 3, 1624
William Tucker, first African American child, born in America.

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Bernice Gaines Hughes, First African American woman to obtain the rank of lieutenat colonel in the United States Armed Services.

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Barack Obama began his political career in 1997 representing Chicago’s South Side in the Illionis Senate. In July 2004 Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston-a sure sign of his rising popuarity. Four months later, Illinois voters elected him to the U.S. Senate with 70 percent of the popular vote, the widest margin of victory for any Senate candidate in Illinois history. In November 2008 Obama was elected to the presidency with 54 percent of the popular vote. In his victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park, Obama remarked, change has come to America. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office.

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Robin