[wp_ad_camp_1]1931 – Walter F.White, NAACP Pres. Walter F. White named NAACP executive secretary. The NAACP has had many leaders since its beginning in 1910, but none was more determined and devoted than Walter F. White. This fair-skinned, blue-eyed man who wouldn’t pass worked a...

1876 – U.S. Refuses to Seat P.B.S. Pinchback, elected Senator from Louisiana in 1873, after three years of controversy. [wp_ad_camp_1] 1971 – Muhammad Ali battled Joe Frazier for the heavyweight championship. In what was called the “Fight of the Century,” the two great...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1965 – Civil Rights March in Alabama Through the 25th, Alabama state troopers and sheriff’s deputies dispersed Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march with tear gas and billy clubs, Three white Unitarian ministers, including Rev. James J. Reeb, attacked on streets of...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1857 – Dred Scott decision by U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott decision by U.S. Supreme Court opened Northern territory to slavery and denied citizenship to American Blacks. [wp_ad_camp_2]1775 – Prince Hall and fourteen other Blacks were Prince Hall and fourteen other...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1770 – Crispus Attucks On this day, Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave became the first man killed in the cause of America’s freedom. This event is better known as the ‘Boston Massacre’. [wp_ad_camp_2]1985 – Mary McLeod Bethune commemorative stamp...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1922 – Bert Williams – a Leading Comedian Dies At the turn of the century Bert Williams was one of America’s stop comedians. Comedian Eddie Cantor called him a comic “genius,” W.C. Fields, a comic genius himself, once described Williams as...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1991 – Rodney King is beaten by a group of white policemen in Los Angeles, Calif Rodney King is beaten by a group of white policemen in Los Angeles, Calif [wp_ad_camp_2]1932 – Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. was born on this day. Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. was born on this...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1807 – Congress bans the slave trade Congress banned the slave trade, prohibiting “the importation of slaves into the United States or the territories thereof” after January 1, 1808. [wp_ad_camp_2]1867 – Universities and Colleges established Howard...

1841 – Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first Black to serve a full term in the United States Senate was born a slave in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In February 1874, Bruce was elected to the U. S. Senate, the second African American to serve in the upper house of Congress....

[wp_ad_camp_1]1943 – Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan in starring roles. The musical was based on an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, which was adapted from of DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel of the same name....

[wp_ad_camp_1]1940 – Hattie McDaniel wins an Oscar for Best Supporting actress in the movie “Gone With The Wind.” McDaniel portrayed “Mammy,” the house servant in the production based on the book by Margaret Mitchell. Hattie was the first African American to win...

[wp_ad_camp_1]1844 – Members of a secret society called La Trinitaria declared the complete independence of the Dominican Republic from Haiti. The nation’s first Constitution, based upon that of the United States, was adopted on November 6, 1844. 1872 –...

1926 – Theodore “Georgia Deacon” Flowers  becomes first Black middle-weight boxing champion. In front of a crowd of 16,311 at Madison Square Garden, Flowers defeated champion Harry Greb by unanimous decision to take the belt. [wp_ad_camp_1] 1928 –...

[wp_ad_camp_1]1870 – Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and the first Black representative in Congress. Revels, a Republican politician, educator and minister of an African Methodist Episcopal Church was born in North Carolina and later lived...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1940 – Heavy weight boxer Jimmy Ellis born Former world heavyweight boxing champion Jimmy Ellis was born James Albert Ellis in Louisville, Kentucky. Ellis won the World Boxing Association title after beating Jerry Quarry in April 1968. [wp_ad_camp_2]1864 – First...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1868 – Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois On this day Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, Mass. [wp_ad_camp_2]1915 – Death of Robert Smalls Death of Robert Smalls (75), Reconstruction congressman, in...

[wp_ad_camp_1]1950 – Julius Erving Born  

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1965 – Malcolm X (39) assassinated in Audubon Ballroom at Malcolm X (39) assassinated in Audubon Ballroom at a rally of his organization. Three Blacks were later convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. 1940 – John Lewis, founder and chairman of...

[wp_ad_camp_1] 1895 – Frederick Douglass Dies Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies on this date in Washington, DC. [wp_ad_camp_2]1927 – Sidney Poitier, actor born Actor and thespian Sidney Poitier born. 1936 – Jazz singer Nancy Wilson born Jazz singer, actress, Nancy Wilson...

[wp_ad_camp_1]1931 – Toni Morrison born Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford) was born on this day. [wp_ad_camp_2]1894 – Paul Revere Williams, renowned architect, born Paul Revere Williams, renowned architect,...