Black History Month Factoids

Fact #7: Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou's birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King's widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta's death in 2006.


Fact #8: Louis Armstrong learned how to play the cornet while living at the Colored Waif's Home for Boys.


Source: Biography