NHS applications are due to Mrs. Pargeon tomorrow, 12:50 p.m. FACTS/TRIVIA Josephine Baker (one of showbiz’s most iconic performers) was a spy for the French during WWII. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on Maya Angelou’s 40th birthday. Nine months before Rosa Parks, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up…

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NHS applications are due to Mrs. Pargeon on Friday, 12:50 p.m. FACTS/TRIVIA Phillis Wheatley was only 12 (1773) when she became the first published female African American author. Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, wasn’t allowed to attend *Gone With the Wind*’s national premiere in Atlanta,…

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