Mahalia Jackson was born on October 26, 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When she was born she suffered from bowed legs so doctors advised her to undergo surgery that would require her legs to be broken and reset. Jacksons aunt, whom she was named after and helped raise her, refused the surgery. While Jacksons condition […]
QUOTES “There will be no quiet or peace in this land until justice and equality cover the United States of America as the water covers the seas.” —Ralph D. Abernathy On This Day…Civil Rights Leader, Dr Ralph Abernathy died at the age of 64..Dr Abernathy was Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s right havd man and […]
Halle Berry becomes the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the movie “Monster’s Ball.” and it happened “On This Day” source: BlackFacts.com
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee TRACK & FIELD Birthplace: East St. Louis, Illinois March 3, 1962 – Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is part of a the Joyner family of American track-and-field stars. Jackie first gained national attention by winning 4 consecutive National Junior Pentathlon Championships. She set the heptathlon world record (7,291 points) at the 1988 Olympics. In 1988, […]
On this day in 1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1833. She worked from 1852-1860 as a nurse in Massachusetts. source: blackfacts.com
On This Day in 1929..Writer Wallace Thurman’s play Harlem opens in NYC. It is the first successful play by an African American playwright.He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is best known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro […]
On February 19th 1942….The Army Air Corps’ all African American 100th Pursuit Squadron, later designated a fighter squadron, was activated at Tuskegee Institute. The squadron served honorably in England and in other regions of the European continent during World War II. source: blackfacts.com
On February 18th 1867 An institution was founded at Augusta, Georgia which was later to become Morehouse College, following its relocation to Atlanta. Morehouse College is one of the most prestigious black colleges in the nation.
Opera singer Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anderson was entered in the New York Philharmonic Competition at age 17 by her music teacher, and placed first over 299 other singers. Awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1930, Anderson went to Europe for a year of study. She returned briefly to the United States but […]
Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust (1857). The Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, popularly known as the Freedman’s Savings Bank, was a financial organization created by the U.S. government to encourage and guide the economic development of the newly-emancipated African-American communities in the post-Civil War period. Although functioning only between 1865 […]
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the first president of this […]
