August 3
August 3, 1964 Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham, the third African American woman to go into space,…
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August 4
August 4, 1961 Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African American President of the United…
August 5
Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the 18th president…
August 6
August 6, 1919 John Merrick, entrepreneur and businessman, died. Merrick was born enslaved December 7,…
August 7
August 7, 1930 Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in Marion, Indiana. Shipp and…
August 8
August 8, 2005 John Harold Johnson, publisher and businessman, died. Johnson was born January 19,…
August 9
August 9, 1883 Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin, suffragette and civil rights activist, was born in…
August 10
August 10, 1880 Clarence Cameron White, violinist, educator, and composer, was born in Clarkville, Tennessee.…
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August 11, 1777 Free Frank McWorter, the first African American to incorporate a municipality in…
August 12
August 12, 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, the first painter of African descent to become an international…