Black History Facts for Today by Yenoba.com
July 31Father Patrick Francis Healy, the first Black man to receive a Ph.D., was named President of Georgetown University, on this date in 1874. Healy became the first Black president of a predominately white institution.

Whitney Moore Young, Jr., Executive Director of the National Urban League, was born in Lincoln Ridge, KY, on this date in 1921.

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