Little-Known Black History Fact: Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche

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Born in Haiti sometime between 1886 and 1889, Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche is said to be the only black man to die on the Titanic in 1912. A child of privilege, his uncle, Dessalines Leconte, was president of Haiti.

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