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by @djaggravatedhh "James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". His achievement of setting three world records and tying another in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet has been called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport" and has never been equaled. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Owens won international fame with four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4x100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the games and as such has been credited with "single-handedly crush[ing] Hitler'smyth of Aryan supremacy. The Jesse Owens Award, USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete, is named after him, and he was ranked by ESPN as the sixth greatest North American athlete of the twentieth century and the highest-ranked in his sport. #theblackhistorychallenge" via @PhotoRepost_app

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Madam C.J. Walker, the first black millionairess in America, invented the world’s first hair-straightening formula. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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By @ronaldcgreen via @RepostWhiz app: Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976 Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an instructor of surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Without any education past high school, Dr. Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons. He was the first African American without a doctorate to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States. #themoreyouknow #history #theblackhistorychallenge #BeGreatAnyway #TeamGreen (#RepostWhiz app)

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Lonnie George Johnson is an American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is most known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys every year since its release. #theBlackHistoryChallenge #BHM #AmericanHistory

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#ShirleyChisholm was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives. She was elected in 1968 and represented the state of New York. She broke ground again four years later in 1972 when she was the first major party African-American candidate and the first female candidate for president of the United States. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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Robert L. (Louis) Johnson is an American businessman, media magnate, executive, philanthropist and investor. He is the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), which was sold to Viacom in 2001. He also founded The RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors. Johnson is the former majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.He became the first African-American billionaire. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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Journalist Ida Wells-Barnett refused to give up her railcar seat for a white man in 1884, and bit a conductor on the hand when he tried to force her. She was dragged off the train. She sued the railroad and initially won, but the decision was overturned. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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Sorry but I really enjoy reading about the gangsta side of our history. When you speak of dangerous black enforcers/hit men, people often name Wayne "Silkk" Perry as the most dangerous hit man in history. I beg to differ. #ChesterCampbellWheeler is the most dangerous black hit man in U.S. history. This contract killer is alleged to have killed 300 people. #ChesterCampbellWheeler was feared by other hit men. They were also in awe of him. He charged $10,000 per hit in the 1970's-1980's. He was usually flown in by clients (all expenses paid) to execute the intended target. He was always attired in black when he murdered people. Law enforcement didn't instill fear in Wheeler, on one occasion, he tried to run them off the road. Cops found a "kill list" notebook (in his car) that included 300 names of victims and dead informants as well as daily routines and the diagrams of homes. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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On January 18, 1958, playing for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens, Willie O'Ree became the first black person to play in the NHL--an extraordinary event that paved the way for future players of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge #AmericanHistory.

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Bad Boy Records (originally Bad Boy Entertainment) is a record label founded in 1993 by producer/rapper/entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs aka @iamdiddy  Today, it operates as a division of Universal Music Group, and is distributed by Interscope Records. After his climb from a non-paying internshipto becoming an A&R executive at Uptown Records, Sean ("Diddy") Combs was fired in 1993 by Andre Harrell. Combs soon founded Bad Boy Records in 1993.[1] The label’s first release was "Flava In Ya Ear" by Craig Mack, followed quickly by Mack's debut album,Project: Funk Da World in 1994. On the heels of these releases came "Juicy" and Ready To Die, the lead single and debut album from The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls), released the same year. While Mack's album went gold, Ready to Die achieved multi-platinum success. Dominating the charts in 1995, B.I.G. became one of the genre’s biggest names of the day and Bad Boy’s premier star. Also in 1995, the label continued its success with platinum releases by Totaland Faith Evans. Bad Boy, meanwhile, staffed a bevy of in-house writer/producers including: Chucky Thompson, Easy Mo Bee, and D Dot—all of whom were instrumental in producing many of Bad Boy’s most noted releases during this time. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge #BadBoyBadBoy #TakeThatTakeThat

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By @blairdjones via @RepostWhiz app: The Tulsa (Greenwood) race riot was a 2 day large-scale, racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of white people attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It resulted in the Greenwood District, the wealthiest black community in the United States and also known as the " Black Wall Street" being burned to the ground. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #theblackhistorychallenge (#RepostWhiz app)

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For the ppl asking what my previous post. Just read it and im.sure you will understand. #BlackHistoryMonth #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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"Please, Please, Please" was written by #JamesBrown and #JohnnyTerry and released as a single on Federal Records in 1956, it charted #6 R&B. It was the group's debut recording and first chart hit, and became their signature song. Figured I'll step it up today and post a video for the #TheBlackHistoryChallenge @djaggravatedhh @djmrrogers @blairdjones

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by @djmrrogers "Lonnie George Johnson is an American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is most known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys every year since its release. #theBlackHistoryChallenge #BHM #AmericanHistory" via @PhotoRepost_app

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Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. a retired heart surgeon and educator, has made history a few times over the course of his four-decade career in medicine. On this day in 1980, Dr. Watkins performed the first human application of the Automatic Implantable Defibrillator (AID) at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. Something positive for those that might start thinking I'm glorifying the negative side of #BlackHistory #TheBlackHistoryChallenge

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You ever heard that saying, "You can never retire from the Dope Game". Well you can run from it though. Although there is more attention paid to other drug kingpins of the era, #FrankMatthews is said by the DEA to be one of the most significant traffickers of the time. Matthews was able to not only approach but gain an audience before the Gambino family and Bonanno family, both part of the "Five Families" that have controlled organized crime in New York City since the 1930s.  Yet another not EXTREMELY important #BlackHistoryMoment but it shows that our ppl can not and will not settle for nothing less than great. #TheBlackHistoryChallenge