365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
September 28, 1833 Lemuel Haynes, the first African American to serve as pastor of a…
September 29, 1955 (November 14, 2016, Gwendolyn L. Ifill, journalist, television newscaster and author, was…
September 30, 1935 John Royce “Johnny” Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas. As a teenager,…
October 1, 1951 The 24th Infantry Regiment (the “Deuce-Four”), the last all-black military unit, was…
October 2, 1981 Hazel Dorothy Scott, jazz and classical pianist and singer, died. Scott was…
October 3, 1954 Alfred Charles “Al” Sharpton, Jr., minister, civil rights activist, White House adviser…
October 4, 1942 Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, was born in…
October 5, 1929 Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first black student to attend the University of…
October 6, 1955 Anthony Kevin “Tony” Dungy, the first African American head coach to win…
October 7, 1857 Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first African American to play major league baseball,…