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September 16, 1846 George Franklin Grant, pioneering dentist and inventor of the golf tee, was born in Oswego, New York.…
September 17, 1932, Joseph W. Hatchett, the first African American Supreme Court justice in the South in the 20th century,…
September 18, 1905 Edmund Lincoln “Rochester” Anderson, hall of fame radio, television and film actor, was born in Oakland, California.…
September 19, 1965 Katrina McClain Johnson, hall of fame basketball player, was born in Charleston, South Carolina. Johnson played college…
September 20, 1664 Maryland enacted the first Anti-Amalgamation Law to specifically outlaw marriage between black men and white women. Soon…
September 21, 1933 Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr., lawyer, businessman and the first African American Secretary of the Army, was…
September 22, 1891 Alma Woodsey Thomas, painter and art educator, was born in Columbus, Georgia. Thomas earned her Bachelor of…
September 23, 1923 Nancy Green, storyteller, cook, and one of the first African Americans hired to promote a corporate trademark,…