April 30
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman, civil aviator, died when her airplane crashed. Coleman was born January 26,…
May 1
May 1, 1866 The Memphis Riots of 1866 began after a shooting altercation between white…
May 2
William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was an American minister, and…
May 3
James Joseph Brown, Jr., singer, songwriter, and “The Godfather of Soul,” was born in Branwell,…
May 4
It was during his employment as a bartender in Greenwich Village that Gordone found the…
May 5
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1934 – May 31, 2000)[1] was a three-timeGrammy-nominated American recording…
May 6
William Venoid Banks, minister, lawyer and broadcast executive, was born in Geneva, Kentucky. Banks earned…
May 7
George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was anAfrican-American civil rights leader,…
May 8
Robert Leroy Johnson, Delta blues musician, was born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. At a very young…
May 9
Canada Lee, pioneering stage, died. Lee was born Lionel Cornelius Canegata on March 3, 1907…