September 26
September 26, 1981 Serena Jameka Williams, top ranked female professional tennis player, was born in…
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September 27
September 27, 1966 Stephanie Diana Wilson, the second African American woman (after Mae Jemison) to…
September 28
September 28, 1833 Lemuel Haynes, the first African American to serve as pastor of a…
September 29
September 29, 1955 (November 14, 2016, Gwendolyn L. Ifill, journalist, television newscaster and author, was…
September 30
September 30, 1935 John Royce “Johnny” Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas. As a teenager,…
October 1
October 1, 1951 The 24th Infantry Regiment (the “Deuce-Four”), the last all-black military unit, was…
October 2
October 2, 1981 Hazel Dorothy Scott, jazz and classical pianist and singer, died. Scott was…
October 3
October 3, 1954 Alfred Charles “Al” Sharpton, Jr., minister, civil rights activist, White House adviser…
October 4
October 4, 1942 Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, was born in…
October 5
October 5, 1929 Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first black student to attend the University of…