365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 23 August 23, 1954 Phillip Emeagwali, engineer, computer scientist, and geologist, was born in Akure, Nigeria. Emeagwali. He dropped out of… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 24 August 24, 1985 William Venoid Banks, minister, lawyer and broadcast executive, died. Banks was born May 6, 1903 in Geneva,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 25 August 25, 1746 Native Americans attacked two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts in an area called “The Bars.” Lucy Terry,… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 26 August 26, 1905 George Washington, a leading African American pioneer of the Pacific Northwest and the founder of the town… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 27 August 27, 1909 Lester Willis Young, hall of fame jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist, was born in Woodville, Mississippi. Young… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 28 August 28, 1955 Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Till… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 29 August 29, 2011 David “Honeyboy” Edwards, hall of fame blues guitarist and singer, died. Edwards was born June 28, 1915… Read More
365 DAYS-OF-HISTORY May 19, 2017 0 August 30 August 30, 1948 Fred Hampton, Sr., activist and assassinated Black Panther leader, was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up… Read More
