1/5 #BLM OTD 1906 Satchel Paige was born. He played Negro League & Major League Baseball in a 50 year career culminating w/ his induction into the Hall of Fame.A righty pitcher, he began in semi-pro for the Mobile Tigers from 1924 to 1926.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory 2/5 A He began his professional baseball career in 1926 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts of the Negro Southern League and became one of the most famous and successful players from the Negro leagues.
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1/4 #BLM OTD 1957 Althea Gibson becomes the 1st African-American to win Wimbledon. Tennis was segregated and she paved the way for Venus & Serena Williams, Arthur Ashe & countless others. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory 2/4 Born in South Carolina in 1927, the teenaged Gibson began playing tennis in Harlem, NY and after winning two national Black women's tennis championships, she debuted at the U.S. Open in 1950. After becoming the first African-American
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1/4 #BLM OTD civil Rights activist Medgar W. Evers was shot in the back by a white supremacist in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home. He was only 37 years old. Born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925,
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory 2/4 He became involved with the NAACP when working for a Black insurance company in the Mississippi Delta in 1952. As the 1st NAACP field officer in the state, he recruited new members & investigated incidents of racial violence.
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