Their original look consisted of all-black clothing, ( dyed ) black moptop hairstyles and a single black glove.

* 1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.

Mr. Baskett also acted in several all-black films made in the New York area, including Harlem is Heaven ( 1932 ) starring Bill Robinson.

Hobson City is Alabama's first all-black city, according to The Progress and Achievements of the Negro in the Art of Self Government, a book published in 1947 by Ross Black, a white lawyer.

Marysville is also known as the " Black Squirrel City " due to an isolated community of all-black squirrels that make their homes in the town.

It is one of the thirteen existing all-black towns in Oklahoma. The population was 63 at the 2010 census, a 30 percent decline from 90 at the 2000 census.

When three white Texans show up instead, he is stunned, but unwilling to pay them for doing nothing, he nervously lets them perform and prays fervently that the all-black audience doesn't riot at the sight of the first all-white band to play there.

* Congo African Grey Parrot ( Psittacus erithacus erithacus ): This is the nominate subspecies, larger than the Timneh at about long, with light grey feathers, cherry red tails, and an all-black beak.

The two common names for this species both refer to features visible when the bird is in its breeding plumage ; in such plumage, it has an all-black neck and a spray of golden plumes on each side of its head.

Measuring in length, it is an all-black bird which gains a small double crest of black and white feathers in breeding season.

The Racket-tailed Treepie, formerly placed in Dendrocitta, is an all-black Southeast Asian species.

Lewis is noted for always wearing an all-black outfit.

The Northwestern Crow ( Corvus caurinus ) is an all-black passerine bird of the crow genus native to the northwest of North America.

The plumage of all species is either all-black, or black ( or dark brown ) on top and white underneath.

The Variable Oystercatcher is slightly exceptional in being either all-black or pied.

The all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas, which was founded in 1877, was an organized settlement that predates the Exodusters but is often associated with them.

Guy is not a clear-cut hero, Bruno not an all-black villain: the continuum has been established.

It is separable by its all-black face and larger size.

The film is notable for being an all-black parody of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White, known to its audience from the popular 1937 Walt Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

" Paladin's routine switch from the expensive light-colored suit of his genteel urbane persona in San Francisco to his alter ego, who wears all-black attire for quests into the lawless and barren Western frontier, is also a chess reference.

The Common Raven ( Corvus corax ), also known as the Northern Raven, is a large, all-black passerine bird.

An all-black alternate is sold in stores but has never been worn on the field.

While on leave in Boston, Shaw is promoted to Colonel, and given command of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first all-black regiment.

The equipment used is black shirt, shorts and socks, due to the relation to and origin in the local and famous University of Coimbra where students wear a typical all-black suit.

* Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees play the first recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

At first the RCNL, which was based in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, did not directly challenge " separate but equal " ( much like the initial stance of the Montgomery Improvement Association ), but worked to guarantee the " equal.

Glory Road is a 2006 American sports film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story dealing with the events leading to the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which the late Don Haskins – played by Josh Lucas – head coach of the Texas Western College led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history.

These pirated performances took many forms, including burlesques, productions with men playing women's roles and vice-versa, spoofs, variety acts, Minstrel show versions, all-black and Catholic productions, German, Yiddish and other foreign-language versions, performances on boats or by church choirs, and productions starring casts of children.

As Jimmie Baskette, he appeared on Broadway with Louis Armstrong in the all-black musical revue Hot Chocolates in 1929, and was announced for Hummin ' Sam in 1933, although it failed to open.

Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are Norwegians ( all of the Russians are conspicuously dressed in sinister all-black clothing ), Rozanov draws a gun and promises no harm if the family provides information about military on the island ( none ) and police force ( small ), and gives them keys to their car.

It was one of the first all-black towns to be formed after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and was incorporated on August 15, 1887.

In the film Watchmen, Ozymandias has an all-black TEMPEST-shielded SE / 30 on his desk.

He appeared on an all-black baseball squad and maintained a. 342 batting average against squads composed of white players, some which were composed of major leaguers.

As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were stand-alone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline ; a notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, although one number was cut because it was considered too suggestive by the censors.

She made her first appearance in an American airshow on September 3, 1922, at an event honoring veterans of the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I.

It also possesses a short " bobbed " tail with an all-black tip, black tufts of hair on its ears, and a long grey-and-white ruff.

An all-black cast staged the first Broadway revival of the show, which opened on July 11, 1976 in previews, officially on July 21, at The Broadway Theatre.

Although African Americans were forbidden by law to perform on stage with whites in many states, some companies secretly included blacks, and as laws changed several all-black minstrel companies toured America and Great Britain.

* The Great Debaters Major Hollywood movie about Farmer's youth and his participation on the all-black Wiley College Debate Team in the 1930s.

In 1988, all-black heavy metal band Living Colour achieved mainstream success with their début album Vivid, peaking at # 6 on the Billboard 200, thanks to their Top 20 single " Cult of Personality ".

After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on all-black college and on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert ( Jasmine Guy ) and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne ( Kadeem Hardison ).

The home uniforms include an all-black cap complete with the " wolf-head " logo and white jerseys with orange and black trim on the collar and sleeves.

In 2010 she starred in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London.

At the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007, Holzer presented a series of silk-sreen paintings ; each of the 15 same-size, medium-large canvases, stained purple or brown, bears an all-black, silk-screened reproduction of a PowerPoint diagram used in 2002 to brief President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and others on the United States Central Command ’ s plan for invading Iraq.