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1899 - George F. Grant patents golf tee
1950 - Jesse Leroy Brown becomes first African American naval officer to die in combat
1870 - Joseph H. Rainey becomes 1st African American directly elected to congress from South Carolina
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Audrey Jennewein-Rizzuti
Born:Sat Feb 18, 1928
St. Louis, MO
Death:Sat Jun 22, 2002
St. Louis, MO
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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen
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