365 days of African American discoveries, inventions, medical and scientific breakthroughs, birthdays and major accomplishments.
March 2, 1932 Frank E. Petersen, Jr., the first African American Marine Corps aviator and…
. March 3, 1865 President Lincoln signed legislation to incorporate the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust…
March 4, 1932 Zenzile Miriam Makeba, singer and civil rights activist, was born in Johannesburg,…
March 5, 1962 Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr., former NASA astronaut, was born in Baltimore, Maryland.…
March 6, 1857 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford, commonly…
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church or the AME Zion Church is a historical African…
March 8, 1825 Alexander Thomas Augusta, surgeon, professor of medicine, and Civil War veteran, was…
March 9, 1933 Lloyd Price, Rock and Roll and R & B singer, was born…
March 10, 1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, Union Army spy, and suffragist, died. Born Araminta Ross…
March 11, 1917 Robert Lee Carter, civil rights activist and judge, was born in Careyville,…