365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 22 The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a violent public disorder that turned into a… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 23 July 23, 1909 Norman W. Lewis, painter, scholar, and educator, was born in Harlem, New York. Always interested in art,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 24 July 24, 1802 Alexander Dumas, playwright and novelist, was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie in Picardy, France. Dumas’ paternal… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 25 July 25, 2006 Carl Maxie Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver, died. Brashear… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 26 July 26, 1948 President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 which partly stated “It is hereby to be the… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 27 July 27, 1984 Clarence LaVaughn “C.L.” Franklin, minister and civil rights activist, died. Franklin was born January 22, 1915 in… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 28 The Silent Protest was a march of between 8,000 and 10,000 African Americans on July 28, 1917, in New York… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 29 July 29, 1978 Keeth Thomas Smart, the first American to be named the top-ranked fencer internationally, was born in Brooklyn,… Read More
