JAM MASTER JAY October 25 1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded. 1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general in the U.S. Army. 1958—An estimated 10,000 students led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, and labor leader A. Phillip Randolph, participate in a youth march for integrated schools in … Continued

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