Amelia Bassano is the lady who is rumored to have wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays.…

March 31, 1797 Olaudah Equiano, seaman, merchant, explorer, and abolitionist, died. Equiano was born around…

April 1, 1950 Charles Richard Drew, physician and medical researcher, died from injuries suffered in…

April 2, 1932 Willie M. “Bill” Pickett, cowboy and rodeo performer, died after being kicked…

April 3, 1944 The Supreme Court of the United States in Smith v. Allwright overturned…

April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., clergyman, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights…

April 5, 1839 Robert Smalls, businessman and politician, was born enslaved in Beaufort, South Carolina.…

April 6, 1712 The New York Slave Revolt started when 23 enslaved Africans killed nine…

April 7, 1842 Allen Allensworth, minister, educator, and town founder, was born enslaved in Louisville,…

April 8, 1993 Marian Anderson, contralto, died. Anderson was born February 27, 1897 in Philadelphia,…