365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 May 27 May 27, 1970 Mara Brock Akil, television writer and producer, was born in Los Angeles, California but raised in Kansas… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 May 28 May 28, 1971 Ora Mae Washington, considered by many the finest female athlete of the 1920s and 1930s, died.… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 May 29 May 29, 1973 Thomas J. Bradley became the first African American Mayor of Los Angeles, California. Bradley was born December… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 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
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 May 31 May 31, 1921 The Tulsa Race War in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma occurred, resulting in 35 city blocks… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 June 1 John Marshall Harlin (Born June 1, 1833, Boyle County, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 14, 1911, Washington, D.C.) associate justice of the… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 June 2 June 2, 1907 Dorothy West, novelist and short story writer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. West wrote her first story… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 21, 2017 0 June 3 June 3, 1897 Memphis Minnie, blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, was born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana. Minnie learn June… Read More
