March 10, 1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, Union Army spy, and suffragist, died. Born Araminta Ross…

March 11, 1917 Robert Lee Carter, civil rights activist and judge, was born in Careyville,…

March 13, 2011 The Cowtown/Work to Ride polo team out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became the…

March 13, 1911 James Theodore Holly, missionary and the first African American Bishop in the…

March 14, 1977 Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer, voting rights activist and civil rights leader, died.…

Born Harriet E. “Hattie” Adams in Milford, New Hampshire, she was the mixed-race daughter of…

March 16, 1877 Thomas Wyatt Turner, biologist, educator and civil rights activist, was born in…

March 17, 1806 Norbert Rillieux, engineer and inventor, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As…

March 18, 1939 Thomas Jason Burrell, advertising executive, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Burrell earned…

March 19, 1894 Loretta Mary Aiken (Jackie “Moms” Mabley), stand-up comedienne, was born in Brevard,…