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...that the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team was the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears? |
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... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed by a 22-year-old architect in 1867? |
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...that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and whose father was African American, was the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland? |
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...that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters? |
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...that the George E. Johnson, Sr., who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped out of high school founded the first black-owned business traded on the American Stock Exchange? |
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...that four players from the Morgan State University Football Bears are in the NFL Hall of Fame? |
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... that Edward P. Hurt, who coached Morgan State College to 14 CIAA football championships, was also the school's track coach and on the coaching staff at the 1964 Olympic Games? |
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... that Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, will be the first African American to be speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives? |
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... that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League? |
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... that a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia, called The Spiritual Harmonizers, made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent? |
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... that, despite running back Matt Brown being only 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just signed him to a three-year NFL contract? |
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... that at age 19, Ron Franklin rode Spectacular Bid to wins in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes? |
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... that Maryland Delegate Torrey C. Brown, a physician, once assisted in saving the life of a fellow legislator who suffered a heart attack during a debate?
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