July 4
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.…
July 5
July 5, 1929 Henry Lincoln Johnson, soldier and recipient of several medals, died penniless and…
July 6
Henry T. Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an African-American inventor…
July 7
July 7, 1913 Joseph William “Pinetop” Perkins, blues musician, was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. In…
July 8
July 8, 2010 David Harold Blackwell, the first African American inducted into the National Academy…
July 9
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9,…
July 10
July 10, 1889 Noble Sissle, composer, lyricist, bandleader, and playwright, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.…
July 11
July 11, 1925 Mattiwilda Dobbs, coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to…
July 12
July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black…
July 13
July 13, 1863 The New York Draft Riots started. Initially intended to express anger at…