365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
June 30, 1973 The USS Miller was commissioned in honor of Doris “Dorie” Miller. Miller…
July 1, 1899 Thomas Andrew Dorsey, the father of gospel music, was born in Villa…
July 2, 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President…
July 3, 1945 Ruth Jean Simmons, the first black president of an Ivy League institution,…
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.…
July 5, 1929 Henry Lincoln Johnson, soldier and recipient of several medals, died penniless and…
Henry T. Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African-American inventor…
July 7, 1913 Joseph William “Pinetop” Perkins, blues musician, was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. In…
July 8, 2010 David Harold Blackwell, the first African American inducted into the National Academy…
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9,…