Certain Black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: ' If I lay my hand on you, you're ok.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race
In 1991
- Baltimore Orioles manager Frank Robinson is named assistant general manager of the club, the third African American to become as assistant GM
In 1922
- Samuel Gravely, first African American admiral in the U.S. Navy, and first African American to command a U.S. warship, born