Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 March 29 John Hope Franklin, one of the nation’s leading historians, is the only African American who has served as president of… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 March 30 Amelia Bassano (Lanier)is the lady who wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays, during this time no one lack would pulish a… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 March 31 Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey cast the first vote by an African American after the passage of… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 1 Southern University and A&M College was chartered by the Louisiana General Assembly “for the education of persons of color.” Southern… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 2 Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915] – April 2, 2012) was an African-American graphic artist and sculptor best known for her… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 3 April 3, 1944 The Supreme Court of the United States in Smith v. Allwright overturned the Democratic Party’s use of… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 4 Muddy Waters, blues musician and “the Father of Chicago Blues,” was born McKinley Morganfield in Issaquena County, Mississippi. Waters started… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 5 Charles W. Follis, a.k.a. “The Black Cyclone,” (February 3, 1879 – April 5, 1910) was the first black professional American… Read More
