Biggest Moments in Black History

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  • Jackie Robinson
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Motown Records
  • Malcolm X
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Voting Rights Act
  • Hip Hop
  • 011613 national black history oprah 1980s
  • Michael Jackson
  • Bill Cosby
  • Michael Jordan
  • Bill Clinton
  • Million Man March
  • Franklin Raines
  • Bob Johnson
  • Barack Obama
  • 061912 national this day black history slavery
  • 011513 national black history black church
  • slavery, abolition
  • military
  • 012612 national harriet tubman 2
  • Wilberforce University
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Hiram Revels
  • P.B.S. Pinchback
  • 011613 national black history Niagara movement
  • Harlem Renaissance

The World Gets Down to the Motown Sound

Motown Records is founded in 1959, creating one of the most recognizable sounds in the history of American music and the most successful Black-owned record company to date. 

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