Little Known Facts

This former slave was employed in 1893 to promote Aunt Jemima

Jazz, an African American musical form born out of Blues, Ragtime, and marching bands originated where?

Martin Luther King, Jr. was stabbed by an African American in 1958 while attending a book signing

Paul Cuffe founded the first integrated school in Massachusetts 1797

In the 1800s, Philadelphia was known as "the capital of anti- slavery” 

"Strange Fruit" a song about black lynching in the south, was made famous by which Blues singer?

The 306 was a guild like club to support and apprenticeship for African American Artists in 1940 

 According to the American Community Survey, in 2005 there were 2.4 million black military veterans in the United States