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September 8, 1954 Ruby Nell Bridges Hall, the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the…
September 9, 1806 Sarah Mapps Douglass, abolitionist, teacher and lecturer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Douglass’ family was prosperous and…
September 10, 1847 John Roy Lynch, the first African American Speaker of the House in Mississippi, was born enslaved in…
September 11, 1922 James Charles Evers, the first African American elected mayor of a Mississippi city since the Reconstruction era,…
September 12, 1935 Richard Hunt, sculptor, was born in Chicago, Illinois. From an early age, Hunt was interested in the…
September 13, 1957 Keith Lanier Black, neurosurgeon specializing in the treatmen of brain tumors, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Unwilling…
September 14, 1914 Allen Allensworth, minister, educator, and town founder, died. Allensworth was born enslaved on April 7, 1842…
September 15, 1963 The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by members of the United Klan of…