{"id":355,"date":"2010-02-21T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-02-20T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:32:03","slug":"fifty-years-of-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/fifty-years-of-black-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ’70s<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> — November, Barbara Jordan<\/strong><\/a> of Houston and Andrew Young<\/strong><\/a> of Atlanta become the first blacks elected to Congress from the South since
\n1898. Find out about other blacks in Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1974<\/strong> — April 8, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron<\/strong><\/a> hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s longstanding record. Who broke his record<\/a>? November 12<\/strong>, In the Bronx, Clive “Hercules” Campbell<\/strong><\/a>, aka “KoolHerc,” starts using two turntables and chanting rhymes over the beat, forming the basis of rap. What was one of the first rap songs<\/a>?<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> — Arthur Ashe<\/strong><\/a> becomes the first African-American male to win the British Men’s Singles championship at Wimbledon. Who was the first black woman to win<\/a>?<\/p>\n

1977<\/strong> — February 3, The eighth and final episode of the mini-series “Roots<\/strong><\/a>,” based on Alex Haley’s novel, airs, receiving the highest ratings for a single program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ’70s 1972 — November, Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta become the first blacks elected to Congress from the South since 1898. Find out about other blacks in Congress. 1974 — April 8, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s longstanding record. Who broke his record? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}