Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 24 Patti LaBelle, singer, songwriter, author, and actress, was born Patricia Louise Holte in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. LaBelle began singing in church… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 25 Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award,… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 26 Elizabeth Keckley, personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, died. Keckley was born enslaved in February, 1818 in Dinwiddie,… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 27 Ernest Gideon Green was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 28 Betty Shabazz born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X was an American educator and civil rights advocate.… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 29 Eugene Antonio Marino, the first African American archbishop in the United States, was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. Marino earned his… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 30 May 30, 1902 Stepin Fetchit, comedian and film actor, was born Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry in Key West, Florida.… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 31 The Tulsa Race War in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma occurred, resulting in 35 city blocks of residences being… Read More
