August 17
Archibald Henry Grimké (August 17, 1849 – February 25, 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual,…
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August 18
August 18, 1935 Gail Fisher, the first African American to win an Emmy Award, was…
August 19
August 19, 1946 Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., the first African American Administrator of the National…
August 20
August 20, 1619, the first 20 Africans were brought to what would become Jamestown, Virginia…
August 21
August 21, 1831 Nat Turner’s rebellion began in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was an enslaved…
August 22
August 22, 1867 Fisk University was incorporated under Tennessee law with “a dream of an…
August 23
August 23, 1954 Phillip Emeagwali, engineer, computer scientist, and geologist, was born in Akure, Nigeria.…
August 24
August 24, 1985 William Venoid Banks, minister, lawyer and broadcast executive, died. Banks was born…
August 25
August 25, 1746 Native Americans attacked two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts in an area…
August 26
August 26, 1905 George Washington, a leading African American pioneer of the Pacific Northwest and…