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This Week In Black History – May 11, 2023

May 11, 2023

May 11, 1895 – Composer William Grant Still, the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, born.

May 12, 1820 – The New York African Free School population reaches 500.

May 13, 1872 – Matilda Arabella Evans, first African American woman to practice medicine in South Carolina, born.

May 14, 1888 – Slavery abolished in Brazil.

May 15, 1820 – U.S. Congress declares foreign slave trade an act of piracy, punishable by death.

May 16, 1927 – William Harry Barnes becomes first African American certified by any American surgical board.

May 17, 1954 – U.S. Supreme Court declares segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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