In 1942- First Black captain of a US merchant ship, Hugh Mulzac, launches with the Booker T Washington
In 1979- Sir William Arthur Lewis, Professor of Economics Princeton University, became the first black to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics
In 1980- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opens new building on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, NYC
To Inspire You
Excellence is the name of the game no matter what color or what country you're from. If you are the best at what you're doing, then you have my admiration and respect