365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
October 28, 1937 Leonard Randolph “Lenny” Wilkins, hall of fame basketball player and coach, was…
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 19 (1969), was a United States Supreme Court case in which…
October 30, 1989 Frank L. Mingo, advertising executive, died. Mingo was born December 13, 1939…
October 31, 1928 Jose de la Caridad Mendez, Negro League baseball pitcher and manager, died.…
November 1, 1869 The 24th Infantry Regiment (the “Deuce Four”), an all-black United States military…
November 2, 1983 President Ronald Reagan signed the legislation creating a federal Martin Luther King,…
November 3, 1976 Charles Dean Dixon, orchestra conductor, died. Dixon was born January 10, 1915…
November 4, 1931 Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden, cornetist and a key figure in the development…
November 5, 1962 Benjamin Alvin Drew, NASA astronaut, was born in Washington, D. C. Drew…
November 6, 1746 Absalom Jones, abolitionist and clergyman, was born enslaved in Delaware. By 1785,…