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Learn hundreds of Black history's most important events on every day of the year

Unearth all of Black history's most significant events for every day of the year In On This Day in Black History, kids who love facts and trivia will spend hours poring over nearly 300 pages of milestones in Black sports, music, art, history, politics, and more, all neatly arranged by day of the year.

Inspiring and empowering as it is informative, On This Day in Black History covers both achievements and setbacks in the lives and Black men and women as they fought for the world's respect.

Discover the day Matthew Henson discovered the North Pole (April 6, 1909), the day England officially banned the African slave trade (March 25, 1807), the day Aretha Franklin released her first song to enter Billboard's Top 100 (February 27, 1961), the day George Washington Carver first advised Mahatma Gandhi on the virtues of a plant-based diet to help boycott British goods (February 24, 1929), and much, much more