July 8
July 8, 2010 David Harold Blackwell, the first African American inducted into the National Academy…
Monthly Archives: May, 2017
July 9
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9,…
July 10
July 10, 1889 Noble Sissle, composer, lyricist, bandleader, and playwright, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.…
July 11
July 11, 1925 Mattiwilda Dobbs, coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to…
July 12
July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black…
July 13
July 13, 1863 The New York Draft Riots started. Initially intended to express anger at…
July 14
July 14, 1848 Walter “Wiley” Jones, one of the first wealthy African Americans in the…
July 15
July 15, 1864 Maggie Lena Walker, educator, businesswoman, and the first female bank president, was…
July 16
July 16, 1882, Violette Neatley Anderson, the first African American woman to practice before the…
July 17
July 17, 1944 The Port Chicago disaster occurred when an ammunition depot at Port Chicago,…