August 23
August 23, 1954 Phillip Emeagwali, engineer, computer scientist, and geologist, was born in Akure, Nigeria.…
August 24
August 24, 1985 William Venoid Banks, minister, lawyer and broadcast executive, died. Banks was born…
August 25
August 25, 1746 Native Americans attacked two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts in an area…
August 26
August 26, 1905 George Washington, a leading African American pioneer of the Pacific Northwest and…
August 27
August 27, 1909 Lester Willis Young, hall of fame jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist, was…
August 28
August 28, 1955 Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling…
August 29
August 29, 2011 David “Honeyboy” Edwards, hall of fame blues guitarist and singer, died. Edwards…
August 30
August 30, 1948 Fred Hampton, Sr., activist and assassinated Black Panther leader, was born in…
August 31
August 31, 1907 Augustus Freeman Hawkins, the first African American to represent California in Congress,…
September 1
September 1, 1948 William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. became the first African American to serve as…