Short Change... AA Facts For the Shortest Month of the Year (02.01.08)

Here are African American FIRSTS for February 1st




Mayor of a major city (Cleveland...u knew I'd represent)

Carl Stokes









President of the Harvard Law Review
Barack Obama

(prophesy...he'll also be the first AA President of the US)





Inventor of blood banks

Dr. Charles Drew






Poet

Lucy Terry









RANDOM AA FACT:

22

Number of states in which blacks are the largest minority group. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. (Note: Minorities are part of a group other than single-race non-Hispanic white.)