365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
August 19, 1946 Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., the first African American Administrator of the National…
August 20, 1619, the first 20 Africans were brought to what would become Jamestown, Virginia…
August 21, 1831 Nat Turner’s rebellion began in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was an enslaved…
August 22, 1867 Fisk University was incorporated under Tennessee law with “a dream of an…
August 23, 1954 Phillip Emeagwali, engineer, computer scientist, and geologist, was born in Akure, Nigeria.…
August 24, 1985 William Venoid Banks, minister, lawyer and broadcast executive, died. Banks was born…
August 25, 1746 Native Americans attacked two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts in an area…
August 26, 1905 George Washington, a leading African American pioneer of the Pacific Northwest and…
August 27, 1909 Lester Willis Young, hall of fame jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist, was…
August 28, 1955 Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling…