Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 14 Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an African American actor and filmmaker. He was best known… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 15 Asa Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was born in Crescent City,… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 16 Alek Wek, model, was born in Wau, South Sudan. In 1991, Wek and her family were forced to flee to… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 17 Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, businessman, politician, and the first elected African American municipal judge, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After the… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 18 James McCune Smith, physician, abolitionist and author, was born in New York City. After graduating from the African Free School,… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 19 He was born in Griffin, Georgia, on March 22, 1893. He was the second of four children in his family.… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 20 With passage of the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 April 21 George Washington Murray, former Congressman and inventor, died. Murray was born enslaved on September 22, 1853 in Sumter County, South… Read More
