365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 30 Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American actress, producer and television host. She began her career with… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 July 31 Henry Blair (1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a patent. He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 1 August 1, 2009 Naomi Ruth Sims, the first African American supermodel, died. Sims was born March 30, 1948 in Oxford,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 2 August 2, 1924 James Arthur Baldwin, novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, was born in Harlem, New York.… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 3 August 3, 1964 Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham, the third African American woman to go into space, was born in Chicago, Illinois.… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 4 August 4, 1961 Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African American President of the United States, was born in Honolulu,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 5 Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 6 August 6, 1919 John Merrick, entrepreneur and businessman, died. Merrick was born enslaved December 7, 1859 in Clinton, North Carolina.… Read More
