365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 15 August 15, 1818 Bridget “Biddy” Mason, nurse, real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born enslaved in Hancock County, Georgia. Mason… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 16 August 16, 1922 Louis E. Lomax, author and the first African American television journalist, was born in Valdosta, Georgia. Lomax… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 20, 2017 0 August 17 Archibald Henry Grimké (August 17, 1849 – February 25, 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 18 August 18, 1935 Gail Fisher, the first African American to win an Emmy Award, was born in Orange, New Jersey.… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 19 August 19, 1946 Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., the first African American Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 20 August 20, 1619, the first 20 Africans were brought to what would become Jamestown, Virginia aboard a Dutch ship. The… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 21 August 21, 1831 Nat Turner’s rebellion began in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was an enslaved black man who started with… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 22 August 22, 1867 Fisk University was incorporated under Tennessee law with “a dream of an educational institution that would be… Read More
