365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
June 10, 1910 Howlin’ Wolf, blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, was born Chester Arthur…
June 11, 1963 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium…
June 12, 1930 Barbara Clementine Harris, the world’s first female Anglican bishop, was born in…
June 13, 1980 Walter Rodney, prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, was assassinated by a…
June 14, 1854 Nat Love, one of the most famous cowboys of the Old West,…
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister.…
June 16, 1975 The game show “Musical Chairs” premiered on CBS with Adam Wade as…
In June 1821, the first convention of the new Zion’s denomination, James Varick was appointed…
June 18, 1988 Sallie Martin, the “Mother of Gospel Music” and entrepreneur, died. Martin was…
June 19, 1921 Vernon D. Jarrett, newspaper, television and radio journalist, was born in Paris,…