Modern Listing Example

January 19, 1931 Carl Maxie Brashear, the first African American to become a United States…

January 20, 2009 Barrack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United…

January 21, 1951 Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., the first African American Attorney General of the…

January 22, 1915 Clarence LaVaughn “C. L.” Franklin, minister and civil rights activist, was born…

January 23, 1964 The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment…

January 24, 1874 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, historian, writer, and activist, was born in Santurce, Puerto…

January 25, 1980 Black Entertainment Television began broadcasting. The Washington, D.C. based cable network was…

January 26, 1970 Kirk Dwayne Franklin, gospel music singer, was born in Fort Worth, Texas.…