365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 6 Henry T. Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African-American inventor who graduated in 1951 from… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 7 July 7, 1913 Joseph William “Pinetop” Perkins, blues musician, was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. In the 1950s, Perkins began touring… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 8 July 8, 2010 David Harold Blackwell, the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, died. Blackwell was… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 9 The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 10 July 10, 1889 Noble Sissle, composer, lyricist, bandleader, and playwright, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. At an early age, Sissle… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 11 July 11, 1925 Mattiwilda Dobbs, coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 12 July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black community by formerly enslaved people… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 13 July 13, 1863 The New York Draft Riots started. Initially intended to express anger at the draft for the Civil… Read More
