June 28
June 28, 1971 The United States Supreme Court in the case of Clay v. United…
Monthly Archives: May, 2017
June 29
June 29, 1867 Emma Azalia Smith Hackley, singer, educator, and political activist, was born in…
June 30
June 30, 1973 The USS Miller was commissioned in honor of Doris “Dorie” Miller. Miller…
July 1
July 1, 1899 Thomas Andrew Dorsey, the father of gospel music, was born in Villa…
July 2
July 2, 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President…
July 3
July 3, 1945 Ruth Jean Simmons, the first black president of an Ivy League institution,…
July 4
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.…
July 5
July 5, 1929 Henry Lincoln Johnson, soldier and recipient of several medals, died penniless and…
July 6
Henry T. Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African-American inventor…
July 7
July 7, 1913 Joseph William “Pinetop” Perkins, blues musician, was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. In…