365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
June 20, 1894 Lloyd Augustus Hall, chemist and inventor, was born in Elgin, Illinois, but…
June 21, 1915 The United States Supreme Court in Guinn v. United States ruled that…
June 22, 1947 Octavia Estelle Butler, science fiction writer, was born in Pasadena, California. Butler…
June 23, 1940 Wilma Glodean Rudolph, the first American woman to win three Gold medals…
June 24, 1933 Samuel Jones, hall of fame basketball player, was born in Wilmington, North…
June 25, 1933 James H. Meredith, the first African American student at the University of…
June 26, 1956 Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr., the first African American in space to perform…
June 27, 1939 Frederick McKinley Jones of Minneapolis, Minnesota received patent number 2,163,754 for his…
June 28, 1971 The United States Supreme Court in the case of Clay v. United…
June 29, 1867 Emma Azalia Smith Hackley, singer, educator, and political activist, was born in…