July 28
The Silent Protest was a march of between 8,000 and 10,000 African Americans on July…
Monthly Archives: May, 2017
July 29
July 29, 1978 Keeth Thomas Smart, the first American to be named the top-ranked fencer…
July 30
Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American actress, producer and television host.…
July 31
Henry Blair (1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a patent. He was…
August 1
August 1, 2009 Naomi Ruth Sims, the first African American supermodel, died. Sims was born…
August 2
August 2, 1924 James Arthur Baldwin, novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, was…
August 3
August 3, 1964 Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham, the third African American woman to go into space,…
August 4
August 4, 1961 Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African American President of the United…
August 5
Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the 18th president…
August 6
August 6, 1919 John Merrick, entrepreneur and businessman, died. Merrick was born enslaved December 7,…