April 11
The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, was signed…
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April 12
James Winkfield (April 12, 1882 – March 23, 1974) was a Thoroughbred jockey and horse…
April 13
The Colfax massacre, or Colfax riot as the events are termed on the 1950 state…
April 14
Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an African American actor and…
April 15
Asa Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,…
April 16
Alek Wek, model, was born in Wau, South Sudan. In 1991, Wek and her family…
April 17
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, businessman, politician, and the first elected African American municipal judge, was born…
April 18
James McCune Smith, physician, abolitionist and author, was born in New York City. After graduating…
April 19
He was born in Griffin, Georgia, on March 22, 1893. He was the second of…
April 20
With passage of the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress…