Modern Listing Example
August 15
August 15, 1818 Bridget “Biddy” Mason, nurse, real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born enslaved…
August 16
August 16, 1922 Louis E. Lomax, author and the first African American television journalist, was…
August 17
Archibald Henry Grimké (August 17, 1849 – February 25, 1930) was an American lawyer, intellectual,…
August 18
August 18, 1935 Gail Fisher, the first African American to win an Emmy Award, was…
August 19
August 19, 1946 Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., the first African American Administrator of the National…
August 20
August 20, 1619, the first 20 Africans were brought to what would become Jamestown, Virginia…
August 21
August 21, 1831 Nat Turner’s rebellion began in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was an enslaved…
August 22
August 22, 1867 Fisk University was incorporated under Tennessee law with “a dream of an…