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February is Black History Month: Did you know that Oliver Lewis won the very first Kentucky Derby aboard Aristides? His time of two minutes 37.75 seconds also set an American record over the mile and a half distance (the Kentucky Derby became a 1.25 mile race in 1896). Lewis was only 19 years old when he won the Kentucky Derby.
February is Black History Month: Did you know that Cathay Williams was the one and only female Buffalo Soldier, posing as a man named William Cathay to enlist in the 38th infantry in 1866? She served for two years before a doctor discovered that she was a woman, leading to her discharge.
February is Black History Month: Did you know that Jane Matilda Bolin, LL.B. was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department? She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn into the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939.
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