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August 7
August 7, 1930 Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in Marion, Indiana. Shipp and…
August 8
August 8, 2005 John Harold Johnson, publisher and businessman, died. Johnson was born January 19,…
August 9
August 9, 1883 Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin, suffragette and civil rights activist, was born in…
August 10
August 10, 1880 Clarence Cameron White, violinist, educator, and composer, was born in Clarkville, Tennessee.…
August 11
August 11, 1777 Free Frank McWorter, the first African American to incorporate a municipality in…
August 12
August 12, 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, the first painter of African descent to become an international…
August 13
August 13, 1906 The Brownsville Affair started when a white bartender was killed and a…
August 14
August 14, 1876 Prairie View A&M University, the second oldest state sponsored institution of higher…