May 21
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller, jazz pianist, organist, and composer, was born in New York City.…
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May 22
Bernard Shaw is a retired American journalist and former lead news anchor for CNN from…
May 23
Samuel Sharpe was born into slavery in the parish of St James, Jamaica on a…
May 24
Patti LaBelle, singer, songwriter, author, and actress, was born Patricia Louise Holte in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…
May 25
Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of several…
May 26
Elizabeth Keckley, personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, died. Keckley was born enslaved…
May 27
Ernest Gideon Green was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students…
May 28
Betty Shabazz born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X was an American…
May 29
Eugene Antonio Marino, the first African American archbishop in the United States, was born in…
May 30
May 30, 1902 Stepin Fetchit, comedian and film actor, was born Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew…