365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
September 8, 1954 Ruby Nell Bridges Hall, the first African American child to attend an…
September 9, 1806 Sarah Mapps Douglass, abolitionist, teacher and lecturer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…
September 10, 1847 John Roy Lynch, the first African American Speaker of the House in…
September 11, 1922 James Charles Evers, the first African American elected mayor of a Mississippi…
September 12, 1935 Richard Hunt, sculptor, was born in Chicago, Illinois. From an early age,…
September 13, 1957 Keith Lanier Black, neurosurgeon specializing in the treatmen of brain tumors, was…
September 14, 1914 Allen Allensworth, minister, educator, and town founder, died. Allensworth was born…
September 15, 1963 The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by members…
September 16, 1846 George Franklin Grant, pioneering dentist and inventor of the golf tee, was…
September 17, 1932, Joseph W. Hatchett, the first African American Supreme Court justice in the…