January 15
January 15, 1891 Bridget “Biddy” Mason, nurse, real estate entrepreneur, and philanthropist, died. Mason was…
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January 16
January 16, 1865 Union General William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 which…
January 17
January 17, 1759 Paul Cuffee, businessman and abolitionist, was born on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. At…
January 18
January 18, 1975 “The Jeffersons,” the longest running television series with a predominantly African American…
January 19
January 19, 1931 Carl Maxie Brashear, the first African American to become a United States…
January 20
January 20, 2009 Barrack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United…
January 21
January 21, 1951 Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., the first African American Attorney General of the…
January 22
January 22, 1915 Clarence LaVaughn “C. L.” Franklin, minister and civil rights activist, was born…
January 23
January 23, 1964 The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment…
January 24
January 24, 1874 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, historian, writer, and activist, was born in Santurce, Puerto…