June 18
June 18, 1988 Sallie Martin, the “Mother of Gospel Music” and entrepreneur, died. Martin was…
Monthly Archives: May, 2017
June 19
June 19, 1921 Vernon D. Jarrett, newspaper, television and radio journalist, was born in Paris,…
June 20
June 20, 1894 Lloyd Augustus Hall, chemist and inventor, was born in Elgin, Illinois, but…
June 21
June 21, 1915 The United States Supreme Court in Guinn v. United States ruled that…
June 22
June 22, 1947 Octavia Estelle Butler, science fiction writer, was born in Pasadena, California. Butler…
June 23
June 23, 1940 Wilma Glodean Rudolph, the first American woman to win three Gold medals…
June 24
June 24, 1933 Samuel Jones, hall of fame basketball player, was born in Wilmington, North…
June 25
June 25, 1933 James H. Meredith, the first African American student at the University of…
June 26
June 26, 1956 Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr., the first African American in space to perform…
June 27
June 27, 1939 Frederick McKinley Jones of Minneapolis, Minnesota received patent number 2,163,754 for his…