Today in Black History
Wednesday, January 7

1955
Marian Anderson ~ becomes first Black person to appear in the Metropolitan Opera House in Verdi's Masked Ball

1890
WB Purvis ~ (inventor) patents the fountain pen

1901
Zora Neale Hurston ~ (writer) born


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