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Black History Month Fact #28: Althea Gibson was the first Black tennis player to win a Grand Slam. Gibson won her first in 1956 and went on to win another 11 Grand Slam tournaments throughout her career. ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #27: Lucy Stanton was the first Black woman to earn a four-year college degree. Stanton earned a literary degree from Oberlin College in 1850. ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #26: William Tucker was born in 1624 to indentured servants in Jamestown, Virginia. They were among the first group of Africans brought to the colonies by Great Britain. ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #25: In 1909, several dozen activists of various races came together in New York City to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, known as the NAACP, in response to violence against Black people across the U.S. ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #24: In the 1920s, poet Langston Hughes led the way with his revolutionary poems, essays, books, and other works, many of which focused on “honestly” depicting life for Black people in the U.S. at the time, as per the Poetry Foundation. ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #23: According to Oprah Daily, in 1973, Stevie Wonder became the first Black musician to win the Grammy for Album of the Year, one of the biggest awards of the night. He won for his album “Innervisions.” ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #22: In 1958, singer Ella Fitzgerald took home two Grammys, making her the first Black musical artist to win the coveted prize.

Black History Month Fact #21: In 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to go to an otherwise all-white elementary school in the South. She made history that day, and she’s still alive today, at 68 years old. ✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #20: In 2008, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the first man to ever set three world records in a single Olympic games.✊🏾🖤

Black History Month Fact #19: Both Condoleezza Rice and Martin Luther King Jr. started college when they were just 15 years old. She studied political science at the University of Denver; he majored in sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta. ✊🏾🖤